Thumbly
Let AI agents see and control your real iPhone from a Mac
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Thumbly is a free, open-source Mac app and MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI agents see and tap your real iPhone. You approve every client and can pause AI control in one click.
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PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
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Partial The MCP server and Mac app are straightforward to build, but reliably seeing and tapping a real iPhone depends on low-level device-control infrastructure that vibe coding alone won't supply.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a way to mirror the iPhone screen and inject touch input, such as an XCTest or WebDriverAgent bridge, Apple's iPhone Mirroring path, or a USB/accessibility integration. Stable, low-latency control also requires iOS-internals knowledge and ongoing maintenance as iOS changes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 301 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #94 of 302 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 281 days after the earliest competitor.
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