Changelog

Mobster CLI 0.4.4

Your checks keep running on a busy Mac, such as a hosted CI runner, when a read of the screen times out.

$ uv tool upgrade mobster-cli

• A tap, swipe or typed text whose outcome is unknown still stops the run, and Mobster never repeats it.

Mobster for Mac is free

Mobster for Mac is now free when you sign in, on as many iPhones and simulators as you connect. Bring your own model: your AI subscription, an API key, or a model on your Mac.

• There’s no trial and no card.
• Tests, tasks, Workflows, Approvals, Mobster Remote, Connectors, and Plugins are all free.
• A plan bought before November 11 keeps working.

Mobster CLI 0.4.3 on PyPI

Mobster CLI and Mobster MCP now install from PyPI on their own, with no account. Both are free and open source under MIT.

$ uv tool install --python 3.12 mobster-cli

• mobster mcp gives Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex a real iPhone or an iOS simulator, and each test comes back passed or failed.
• Mobster MCP is listed in the MCP Registry as dev.mobster/mobster.

Mobster for Mac 0.4.0

Our launch release: long tasks, the AI subscription you already pay for, and one task on several iPhones at once.

• Long tasks show their plan, phone time, and cost first, and end in a report that links each finding to its source.
• Pick Codex, Claude Code, or Gemini CLI in the composer, and the task runs on your ChatGPT, Claude, or Google subscription.
• Select several iPhones in the composer to run one task on all of them at once, each with its own approvals.
• A repeated task reuses its steps.
• Notion, Linear, GitHub, Sentry, Jira, and more connect in one click, and every tool starts at Ask.

Accounts and Mobster Remote

Sign in to Mobster for Mac with your Mobster account. Use Mobster Remote to send tasks to your iPhone from Claude, ChatGPT, and other assistants.

• Sign in with Apple or Google, with no password.
• Paste remote.mobster.dev/mcp into Claude, ChatGPT, Poke, or Raycast, and it hands whole tasks to your iPhone.
• Tasks from connected apps ask before they send, buy, post, or delete, and you approve them only in Mobster for Mac.

Save a task as a GIF

• Under a finished task, choose Save as GIF for a captioned GIF of each step’s screen and what Mobster did.
• mobster export ID --gif does the same from Terminal, with --mp4 for a video and --redact to blur text fields.

mobster test

• mobster test runs your saved tests on simulators in parallel and writes JUnit XML and an HTML report with each run’s frames.

Several phones, sign-in codes, and a new look

• Mobster drives as many USB iPhones and simulators as you connect, one task each, at the same time.
• Mobster finds a sign-in code the phone received, asks you, and types it without the model seeing it.
• Mobster reads Notification Center without tapping anything, with codes masked.
• If your iPhone is locked or unplugged, the task stops before any model call and tells you what to do.

Mobster CLI 0.2.0: test the screens your agent builds

• mobster verify tests an iOS app on a headless simulator and decides pass or fail in code.
• mobster mcp gives your coding agent the same tools and the same result.
• mobster sim creates and cleans up the simulators Mobster uses, and never touches your own.

Anthropic keys, and your choice of model

• Mobster runs on an Anthropic key as well as an OpenAI one, and you choose the model.

Out-of-credit warnings and titled approvals

• Mobster says when your AI account is out of credit, gives full answers, and titles each approval with what it will do.

Costs up front, and a terminal UI

• A task’s cost shows before it starts.
• A task counts as done only when the screen shows it.
• mobster opens the terminal UI, where you type a task and watch each step beside the phone’s screen.

Your iPhone’s own apps, and signed updates

• Mobster uses the apps installed on your iPhone.
• Releases are signed and notarized, and updates install only a signed version.

Keypads, switches, and share sheets

• Mobster handles keypads, switches, share sheets, long presses, and paging through lists.