MobAI gives AI agents eyes and hands for mobile apps.
They can control iOS and Android apps on simulators, emulators, and physical devices, then verify the result instead of guessing from code.
Build the app. Let the agent test it. Fix what it finds.
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Create reusable AI skills for almost any App on your phone.
Mobile Harness lets agents learn a workflow inside app, save it as a skill, and run it again later.
Like a small app-specific API, but built from real UI steps.
github.com/MobAI-App/mobile-…
Xcode 27:
“Agents can now boot simulators, install and launch apps, synthesize touch events, and capture screenshots to verify UI behavior.”
So who is going to win?
Codex inside Xcode
or
Xcode inside Codex?
Your e2e mobile tests don't have to be slow.
One Maestro test. Same iPhone.
Cold start, run 3 ways.
All latest versions:
mobai-ci → 12.76s
agent-device → 29.63s
maestro-cli → 41.08s
mobai-ci is done before maestro-cli even opens the app.
3.2x faster.
MobAI 2.1.1 is out 🚀
Testing automation got a solid polish pass:
• Expanded Maestro YAML support
• Run flows from the terminal: mobai test flow.yaml
• New clear action for text fields
• New drag_path for curved gestures
• More agent-friendly DSL
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Big AI companies probably won’t go deep into mobile device control.
Not because mobile is unimportant.
Because there’s no clean official path.
Real device control means private APIs, OS quirks, fragile bridges, and signing pain.
That messy layer is what MobAI is built for.
Testing time-based iOS flows is annoying.
I open-sourced simtime: a small CLI that lets you control time inside an iOS Simulator app.
Freeze it, jump forward, or speed it up.
github.com/MobAI-App/simtime
Someone built a tool that lets Claude Code autonomously test your entire IOS app
It navigate your entire app, opens every screen, tests every flow, reads the debug logs, and hands you a structured bug report.
one prompt and that's it
Open-sourced ChatGPTAuthKit: make API calls from iOS apps using the user’s ChatGPT account.
No API key needed. The user signs in with ChatGPT, and your app can use their quota for AI features.
Works with free accounts too.
github.com/mobai-app/chatgpt…