iphone-use-app
An iPhone app where an LLM controls the phone it runs on
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GITHUB · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 23 upvotes (top 53%)
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial The app UI and LLM integration are easy to vibe-code, but iOS sandboxing and Apple's restrictions make it hard to let an LLM control the phone's other apps reliably.
What it would actually take: Use Swift/SwiftUI with an LLM API and a tool-calling loop. Controlling other apps generally requires accessibility or screen-recording mechanisms that iOS does not expose to third-party apps, so a real version would need private APIs, a jailbreak, an external device, or a narrower in-app-only scope. This demands deep iOS platform and security expertise and an accepted App Store or distribution strategy.
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Attention rank: #314 of 624 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 354 days after the earliest competitor.
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- cell-use · github · 2026-09-28 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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