Let AI agents drive a real iPhone, even apps with no API
iphone-use gives an AI agent a real iPhone: the screen as text, tap, type and scroll over WebDriverAgent, with an honest answer for every action (applied, not sent, or unknown). Payment apps that block screenshots come back as a wireframe. A task done once becomes a flow that replays with no model. HTTP API, a 21-tool MCP server for Claude Code, and remote control from a browser or iOS app. Open source, MIT.
Plenty of apps I use every day have no API: banking, payment, health, chat. I wanted my coding agent to be able to operate them on a real phone, the same way it operates a browser. iphone-use started as a remote-control panel and turned into an agent tool once it became clear what an agent needs that a person doesn't: an answer it can branch on (applied, not sent, unknown, retry-safe), refusals instead of taps that silently land elsewhere, and a way to replay a chore without spending tokens. Every request is timed, which is how tap-and-settle went from 8.5 s to 4.2 s. It needs a Mac with Xcode and the phone on USB. Feedback very welcome.
About iphone-use on Product Hunt
“Let AI agents drive a real iPhone, even apps with no API”
iphone-use launched on Product Hunt on October 6th, 2026 and earned 108 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. iphone-use gives an AI agent a real iPhone: the screen as text, tap, type and scroll over WebDriverAgent, with an honest answer for every action (applied, not sent, or unknown). Payment apps that block screenshots come back as a wireframe. A task done once becomes a flow that replays with no model. HTTP API, a 21-tool MCP server for Claude Code, and remote control from a browser or iOS app. Open source, MIT.
On the analytics side, iphone-use competes within Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub and Apple — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how iphone-use performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted iphone-use?
iphone-use was hunted by 郭立. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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