ADBWrench
ADB in the browser with AI assistant, no install needed
Details
- External ID
- 46634958
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ADBWrench
- Website domain
- adbwrench.com
- Launched
- Jan. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3544137022397892
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN,We built ADBWrench – a browser-based ADB tool that connects to Android devices via WebUSB. No SDK install, no drivers, no PATH config. Just plug in and debug.The problem: Every Android dev knows the friction of setting up adb. Install platform-tools, fight with USB drivers (especially on Windows), hope `adb devices` shows something. Then remember the exact syntax for that one command you need.ADBWrench runs entirely in the browser. Open the URL, grant USB permission, done.The interesting part: There's an AI assistant built in. Describe what you want to do in plain English – "show me all apps using more than 100MB", "find crash logs from the last hour", "uninstall all debug builds" – and it executes the right ADB commands for you.BYOK (bring your own key) – add your OpenAI/Anthropic API key and it works. We don't track anything, no data leaves your browser except to the AI provider you choose.What else it does: - Full interactive shell (pm, am, dumpsys, etc.) - Real-time logcat with filtering - File browser with drag-and-drop transfers - App manager (install/uninstall APKs) - Screenshot and screen recording - Live CPU/memory monitoring - Device controls (reboot, volume, brightness) - Bugreport generationEverything runs client-side. Your device data never touches our servers.Built with Next.js, TypeScript, and @yume-chan/adb for the protocol implementation.Limitations (being honest): - Chromium only (WebUSB requirement) - No wireless ADB - No screen mirroring (scrcpy wins there)Open source: https://github.com/superrAI/adbwrench Try it: https://adbwrench.com/Would love feedback, especially on the AI assistant.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based adb with ai assistant
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the web UI and AI assistant wrapper can be vibe coded, implementing ADB protocol handling over browser WebUSB requires specialized knowledge of device protocols and binary stream negotiation.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves Next.js/React communicating with Android devices using the WebUSB API and an in-browser ADB protocol stack (like `@yume-chan/adb`). The difficult parts are the USB handshakes, device authorization keys (RSA keypair generation in-browser), and multiplexing shell/filesystem streams. Developing it reliably requires deep familiarity with Android Open Source Project (AOSP) ADB protocol internals and USB device specs.
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