App Use – Enable AI to control your mobile apps
Hey HN! I built an open-source Python library that lets AI agents control mobile apps. Its heavily inspired by browser-use Here's a quick demo https://x.com/itsericktorres/status/1932996729458110482 From our experience testing mobile workflows or automate repetitive app tasks has always been a pain. You either write brittle UI automation scripts or do everything manually. And after testing out browser-use and seeing all the cool things people were building for web without the pains of normal automation I decided I wanted to build something like it but for mobile So I…
App Use – Enable AI to control your mobile apps launched on June 12, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
📱 Make apps accessible for AI agents. Contribute to erickjtorres/app-use development by creating an account on GitHub.
📱 App Use is the easiest way to connect AI agents with mobile applications. Our goal is to provide a powerful yet simple interface for AI agent app automation. pip install app-use For memory functionality (requires Python<3.13 due to PyTorch compatibility): pip install " app-use[memory] " Install the necessary drivers and software: Check out our environment setup docs for more info! app = App ( platform_name = "ios" , device_name = 'Your Device Name' , bundle_id = "com.apple.calculator" , appium_server_url = 'http://localhost:4723' , ) Spin up your agent: import asyncio from dotenv import load_dotenv load_dotenv () from app_use import Agent from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI async def…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN! I built an open-source Python library that lets AI agents control mobile apps. Its heavily inspired by browser-use Here's a quick demo https://x.com/itsericktorres/status/1932996729458110482 From our experience testing mobile workflows or automate repetitive app tasks has always been…
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