Mobile Next's MCP server enables scalable mobile automation across iOS, Android, simulators, emulators, and physical devices through a platform-agnostic interface. It lets AI agents interact with native mobile applications using accessibility snapshots or coordinate-based interactions based on screenshots, eliminating the need for distinct iOS or Android knowledge.
Before installing the Mobile MCP server, you need to have:
Add the following to your MCP settings file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mobile-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@mobilenext/mobile-mcp@latest"]
}
}
}
Run this command in your terminal:
claude mcp add mobile -- npx -y @mobilenext/mobile-mcp@latest
The MCP server can connect to iOS Simulators, Android Emulators, or physical devices.
To list available simulators:
xcrun simctl list
To boot a specific simulator:
xcrun simctl boot "iPhone 16"
Start an emulator using the Android SDK tools before running Mobile MCP.
For physical iOS or Android devices, ensure you have the proper platform tools and drivers installed and that your device is connected via USB with debugging enabled.
After adding the MCP server to your IDE/Client, you can instruct your AI assistant to interact with mobile applications using natural language prompts.
Here are some example prompts you can use:
Find the video called "Beginner Recipe for Tonkotsu Ramen" by Way of Ramen, click on like video, after liking write a comment "this was delicious, will make it next Friday", share the video with the first contact in your whatsapp list.
Find and Download a free "Pomodoro" app that has more than 1k stars. Launch the app, register with my email, after registration find how to start a pomodoro timer. When the pomodoro timer started, go back to the app store and rate the app 5 stars, and leave a comment how useful the app is.
Open Weather app, check tomorrow's weather forecast for "Berlin", and send the summary via Whatsapp/Telegram/Slack to contact "Lauren Trown", thumbs up their response.
Open Zoom app, schedule a meeting titled "AI Hackathon" for tomorrow at 10AM with a duration of 1 hour, copy the invitation link, and send it via Gmail to contacts "[email protected]".
For more detailed documentation and examples, visit the wiki page.
To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:
claude mcp add-json "mobile-mcp" '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","@mobilenext/mobile-mcp@latest"]}'
See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.
There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file so that it is available in all of your projects.
If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json
file.
To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".
When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file will be opened and you can add your server like this:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mobile-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mobilenext/mobile-mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}
To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json
file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.
Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.
The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.
You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.
To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:
1. Find your configuration file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
2. Add this to your configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mobile-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mobilenext/mobile-mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}
3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect