phoneuse
See and operate an unmodified iPhone from a Linux PC: AirPlay mirror in, Bluetooth HID mouse/keyboard out, plus a CLI and skill for agents.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 605 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: mobile device automation frameworks · 65 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -92% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI, CLI, and agent skill are vibe-codeable, but the core feature depends on reverse-engineering AirPlay mirroring and emulating a Bluetooth HID keyboard and mouse on Linux, which needs protocol and Bluetooth stack expertise.
What it would actually take: Start from open-source AirPlay receivers (e.g., UxPlay) and the Linux BlueZ stack for HID emulation, then build a wrapper UI and CLI around them. The hard parts are the undocumented Apple protocols, latency-sensitive input injection, and pairing behavior that changes across iOS versions. This needs someone comfortable with low-level networking, Bluetooth, and video decoding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 637 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 638 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 362 days after the earliest competitor.
- LinuxRunner · github · 2026-10-25 · 374 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- vphone-linux · github · 2026-10-21 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- iphone-mirror-windows · github · 2026-11-08 · 153 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- omarchy-ios-kit · github · 2026-10-10 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- omarchy-iphone-mirror · github · 2026-09-19 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- open-iphone-use · github · 2026-10-23 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Use your phone as a Windows mouse and keyboard, without a phone app · hn · 2026-10-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Mirra · github · 2026-11-08 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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