AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MCP app for Android, drive apps via AI (no root, PII redacted locally)
Hi HN, author here. Android Remote Control MCP is an MCP server that runs directly on your Android phone (no root, no ADB, no computer in the middle) and lets an AI agent drive real apps the way a human would: it reads the screen through the accessibility tree, taps, types, scrolls, optionally also screenshots. I spent a lot of time optimizing tool usage and token consumption, and making it work not only via local harnesses but also via Claude.ai / Claude Desktop and chatgpt.com (if you have the proper account, the app acts as its own OAuth server, you approve connections with a code on…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.
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fileAI MCP▲235Give AI agents secure, real-time access to your files
2025 · file.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN – I built an open-source, self-hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for WhatsApp: https://github.com/lharries/whatsapp-mcp It connects to your personal WhatsApp account via the WhatsApp Web multi-device API (using whatsmeow from the Beeper team), and doesn't rely on third-party APIs. All messages are stored locally in SQLite. Nothing is sent to the cloud unless you explicitly allow your LLM to access the data via tools – so you maintain full control and privacy. The MCP server can: - Search your messages, contacts, and groups - Send WhatsApp messages to…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A read-only MCP server that lets your AI agent search and read your own WhatsApp messages. Runs on Cloudflare Workers. - finereli/whatsapp-mcp
5d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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Voice controlled iOS & Android MCP client
2025 · systemprompt.io · its alternatives →
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MCP Defender▲152Hi HN, MCP Defender is an open source desktop app that automatically proxies your MCP traffic in AI apps like Cursor, Claude, Windsurf and VSCode. It then scans all requests and responses between the apps and the MCP tools they call. If it detects anything malicious, it alerts you and lets you allow or block the tool call. While the threat landscape of MCP is still being actively researched, there are dangerous things that MCP Defender can block today. For example, a developer asks Cursor to fix a Github issue with an attached crash log. However, the Github issue was created by an attacker…
2025 · mcpdefender.com · its alternatives →
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CoreSpeedfree tier, from $20/mo▲332One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools
30d ago · corespeed.io · its alternatives →
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Give AI agents access to real-time data across 200+ apps
May 2026 · apideck.com · its alternatives →
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I'm Mike, Head of Eng/Product at Alloy Automation. We built MCP by Alloy Automation to give your AI agents structured access to business-critical systems without the integration headache. We've built MCP servers covering thousands of tools across platforms like Quickbooks, Xero, Notion, HubSpot, and Salesforce. Pick the tools you need, provision a server, and ship faster. Need more control? Our Connectivity API gives you programmatic access to all the same tools for custom integrations beyond MCP. Everything runs with scoped auth utilizing our battle-tested credential management system…
2025 · ai.runalloy.com · its alternatives →
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API to MCP▲195Turn any API into an MCP server for AI agents
Jun 2026 · apitomcp.ai · its alternatives →
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Run Google Ads from your choice of AI. Skip the UI maze
Mar 2026 · hireotto.com · its alternatives →
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LinkedIn MCP▲105MCP server that lets AI assistants control your LinkedIn
2025 · linkedapi.io · its alternatives →
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MCP-Builder.aifree tier, from $29/mo▲174The fastest way to connect your data with your AI Tools.
Aug 2026 · mcp-builder.ai · its alternatives →
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MCP server that gives AI the ability to use an iPhone
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AppControl MCP is a local server connecting AI agents and IDEs like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf to system history provided by the AppControl desktop app. Ask which apps used CPU, GPU, RAM, or disk, and what caused slowdowns, heat spikes, or webcam, mic, and location access. Built for deep historica
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source Computer Use MCP for AI agents
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, we're Andrew and Stephen from Keyboard (https://www.keyboard.dev/). After building AI tools for the past year, we recently made a YouTube video on building MCP servers and realized MCP is a total game-changer. It essentially lets AI do anything by connecting to your apps. But the deeper we dove, the clearer it became that security and privacy were complete afterthoughts. Coming from backgrounds at Okta and Stripe, this made us pretty uncomfortable. We kept seeing the same pattern: every app needs its own MCP server, each storing sensitive tokens, with minimal…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Run Lanes Link as your own personal context MCP: your accounts, memory, skills and secrets behind one endpoint you host, reachable by every AI agent you use.
Sep 2026 · lanes.sh · its alternatives →
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Kaiku▲79The task tracker your AI agents already know how to use
29d ago · kaiku.tech · its alternatives →
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MCP360▲61Hey HN Community, I built MCP360 after spending weeks integrating APIs for an AI agent project. Each tool needed its own setup, auth, billing, and maintenance. When any APIs changed, my integrations broke. I got tired of it. MCP360 is a single gateway giving AI agents access to 100+ tools through one config block. Search engines, web scraping, SEO, e-commerce data, maps, domain tools, and more. Real example: Instead of managing Google Search, web scraping, SERP tracking, and keyword research as 4 separate subscriptions (4 bills, 4 auth systems, 4 points of failure), you connect once. Works…
2025 · mcp360.ai · its alternatives →
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