Phone-use
Phone-use is a tool that lets an AI agent scroll, tap, and type on your real phone for developers and automation builders.
What it is good for
- Letting an AI agent tap through apps on a real phone
- Automating repetitive mobile app tasks without a jailbreak
- Reading phone screen text so an agent can act on it
- Running phone tasks from Claude Code or Codex
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Other
- Tasks
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex, iPhone Mirroring, adb, Hermes Agent, MCP clients
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 4,061
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Phone-use free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use Phone-use?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does Phone-use work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Claude Code, Codex, iPhone Mirroring, adb, Hermes Agent, and MCP clients.
- What is Phone-use good for?
- Letting an AI agent tap through apps on a real phone, automating repetitive mobile app tasks without a jailbreak, reading phone screen text so an agent can act on it, and running phone tasks from Claude Code or Codex.
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