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poki

Let AI agents operate a real iPhone. Local MCP server and agent, no jailbreak, no extra hardware.

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GITHUB · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 515 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views

Niche: mobile device automation frameworks · 60 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • ai-agents
  • automation
  • ios
  • iphone
  • mcp
  • model-context-protocol

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Could you build this?

Partial An MCP server and agent loop wrapping device control are vibe-codeable, but reliably driving a real iPhone with no jailbreak depends on iOS accessibility internals and XCTest/XCUITest-based touch synthesis. Getting that working robustly takes iOS platform expertise.

What it would actually take: The architecture is a macOS helper that uses Xcode's XCTest/XCUITest framework to read the accessibility tree and inject touches on a tethered device, exposed to agents over MCP with an LLM agent on top. The hard parts are reliable accessibility-tree capture, gesture synthesis across iOS versions, and handling signing and provisioning, which calls for someone fluent in iOS internals and Apple tooling.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1286 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #21 of 1287 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 372 days after the earliest competitor.

  • open-iphone-use · github · 2026-10-23 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.74
  • thumbly · github · 2026-10-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.73
  • ghosthand · github · 2026-10-27 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • cell-use · github · 2026-09-28 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • An agentic control pane for iPhone · hn · 2026-06-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • actell · github · 2026-10-09 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • PlugClaw · hn · 2026-08-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • phone-for-ai · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.57

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