12 tools
- phone.acquire
- screen.read
- tap
- type
- swipe
- app.open
- sms.read
- +5 more
“Get a real iPhone, open Instagram and post today’s menu to our story.”
Your agent now has a phone.
Plug Claude Code, Codex or Cursor into a phone and automate any app, through MCP or our API.
01The wall
Most of life runs on apps.
The moment a task needs an app,
your agent
stops cold
Hover an app to see what your agent can do with it.With PhoneUse, your agent can:
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Messagesnow
Your Uber code is 4821
Share this PIN with your driver to start the trip.
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Ubernow
Driver arriving shortly
Grey Toyota Camry · 8KXL 204 is 1 min away.
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Zomatonow
Your food is being prepared
Arriving in 28 min · 2 items from Kebab House.
02The turn
So we gave agents a phone.
Let’s see how simple it can be.
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- Claude
- Cursor
- Codex
- Windsurf
- Your code
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claude
Post today’s menu photo to our Instagram story and tag the chef.
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- Opened Instagram
- Uploaded menu.jpg
- Tagged @chef.ana
- Story posted
04Super undetectability
Not an emulator.
A real iPhone, tapped by a robot.
Apps can tell when they run on a virtual device. A retail phone with a real SIM, touched by a physical stylus, looks exactly like a person. To the app, it is one.
Inspection · Unit 07
Rack SF-2
- Device
- Retail iPhone 15 Pro
- Jailbreak / root
- None
- Helper app
- None
- SIM
- Real carrier number
- Input
- Physical stylus
- Screen reading
- Overhead camera
- Power
- Wired, always charged
- Device integrity checks
- Pass
8 / 8 checked · signed off by rack ops
LIVE · SF rack · iPhone 15 Pro #07
App-side scan0/7
- Emulator signatureReal device
- Jailbreak / rootNot found
- Automation appNot found
- Device integrityPass
- SIM / carrierReal SIM
- Touch sourceReal touch
- Screen captureOff-device
01Phone
A retail iPhone 15 Pro running real apps. No jailbreak, no helper app.
05Why PhoneUse
Every other route hits a wall somewhere.
Agents stall the moment a task needs a native app, a real text message or a phone the app trusts. Here is where each route gives out.
| What the task needs | Browser agents | Emulators | PhoneUse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use native mobile appsBrowser agents can’t leave the web. | No | Yes | Yes |
| Receive real SMS and 2FATexts need a SIM. Only phones have one. | No | No | Yes |
| Pass device integrity checksEmulators fail Play Integrity and App Attest. | No | No | Yes |
| No hardware on your deskReal phones, racked in our cloud. Nothing to plug in. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hundreds of devices in parallelEmulators eat RAM. A laptop runs a handful. | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Works from any MCP clientEmulator MCP servers exist, but setup is DIY. | Yes | Partly | Yes |
- Yes
- Partly, with workarounds
- No
Hover or focus a row to see why
06Build
A phone in a
few lines of code.
Drop the MCP server into Claude, Cursor, Codex or Windsurf. Or use the API or the CLI. No SDK required, no device setup.
Read the docsAn agent run: it acquires a real iPhone 15 Pro, reads 38 comments on an Instagram Reel, replies to every one, and finishes in 2.8 seconds.
Example chat. You: Get a real iPhone and tell me when the driver is here. Agent: Watching the ride app on iPhone #07. Agent: Your driver is here: grey Toyota Camry, plate 8KXL 204. I texted the guest. You: Perfect. Book the same ride for Friday 7pm.
Works from any MCP client
- ClaudeMCP38ms
- CursorMCP41ms
- CodexMCP44ms
- WindsurfMCP47ms
- PhoneUse CLInpm29ms
- APIHTTPS33ms
07Built for
If it happens on a phone,
an agent can do it now.
Teams use PhoneUse wherever the browser runs out.
Real phone
Social and marketing
Post, reply and grow on TikTok, Instagram and Reddit, where browser bots get caught.
Example prompt: “Reply to every comment on today’s Reel”
Real iPhone
Proactive iMessage agents
Agents that text first, with the full context of a real phone behind them.
Example prompt: “Text Sam when his order ships”
Real SIM
SMS and 2FA
A real number receives verification codes, so flows never stall at login.
Example prompt: “Log in and read the code from SMS”
Cloud or real
Mobile-only apps
Order on Swiggy, Zomato or Uber, apps with no web version an agent could reach.
Example prompt: “Reorder my usual from Zomato”
Cloud + real
Testing and QA
Run suites across hundreds of Android and dozens of iOS devices in parallel.
Example prompt: “Run checkout on 40 devices”
Cloud phone
Agent sandboxes
Give agents a safe mobile environment to learn and evaluate in before production.
Example prompt: “Spin up 10 clean Pixels for evals”
08Proof
Watch it work. Unedited.
No cuts, no speed-ups. Real runs on cloud and real phones.
Cloud phone
Plans a design sprint in Notion
Android 14 · virtual Duration 1:42
Real phone
Posts a story to Instagram
iPhone 15 Pro · carrier SIM Duration 0:58
Real phone
Robot hand on a real iPhone
iPhone 15 Pro · overhead cam Duration 2:1009Pricing
Cloud or Real phone.
You decide we provide
Start in the cloud. When an app pushes back, switch to a real device by changing one parameter.
Same API on every plan. Switch with one parameter:
device="cloud"
device="real"
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Cloud Phone
Get started Cloud Enterprise · Talk to us →from$20/mo
QA, scraping and testing
- One always-on Android
- ADB + vision control
- Keeps apps and logins between runs
- Unlimited minutes
$0.024/min
Bursty tasks and quick experiments
- Pay only while it runs
- Android cloud phones
- Boots in about 4 seconds
- MCP, API and CLI
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Real iPhone · Monthly
Real$89/mo
Apps that block emulators
- Retail iPhone
- Real carrier SIM
- Robot stylus input
- Passes device integrity checks
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Enterprise
FleetCustom
Cloud phones or real iPhones
- Hundreds of devices
- Dedicated racks
- SSO and audit logs
- Support with an SLA
phone = pu.acquire(device=)
Same code. Same tools. Different phone.
01What's the difference between a cloud phone and a real phone?
Cloud phones are virtual Android devices that boot in seconds and scale to hundreds. Real phones are retail iPhones and Androids in our San Francisco rack, tapped by a robot stylus, for apps that detect emulators.
02Is the iPhone really unmodified?
Yes. No jailbreak, no root and no helper app. It's a retail iPhone with a real carrier SIM. A stylus touches the glass and an overhead camera reads the screen, so the phone runs exactly as it shipped.
03Which agents and clients does it work with?
Any MCP client, including Claude, Cursor, Codex and Windsurf. You can also use the API or the CLI.
04Can I switch between cloud and real?
Yes. Every phone uses the same API, the same MCP tools and the same CLI, so you only point your agent at a different phone. Most teams build on cloud phones and move the flows that get blocked onto real ones.
05Can my agent receive SMS and 2FA codes?
On real phones, yes. Each one has a real carrier number, so verification codes arrive the way they would for a person, and your agent reads them in Messages.
06How does per-minute billing work?
On-demand cloud phones cost $0.024 for each minute a phone is running. You pay for the exact time used, so part of a minute costs part of the rate. Dedicated cloud phones and real phones are a flat monthly price.
11Book a call
See PhoneUse
in action.
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12What's next
A more capable internet.
Agents are no longer limited to the browser. Give yours a phone in the next five minutes.