Description
Getting an AI to do things on an iPhone was never a model problem; iOS simply doesn't let anyone else tap the screen for you. Poki gets around that with no jailbreak and no extra hardware: a local controller on your Mac lets an AI use your iPhone the way you do.
Text it from iMessage or Telegram, "add the shopping list my wife sent to Reminders", and it reads the list in WeChat, opens Reminders, enters the items one by one and replies with the result. You can also give it tasks from a terminal or the Poki app on the phone. If you already use Claude Code or Codex, connect Poki MCP and run on your own subscription, with no separate model account.
Works in real apps: saved places in Xiaohongshu, Maps directions, sending in WeChat, totalling Alipay bills into Notes, checking trains on Trip.com. Tasks that hop between apps are fine.
Four ways in: iMessage, Telegram, a terminal or the native iOS app, so you can hand off a task wherever the thought hits.
Gets faster with use: runs that were verified are compiled into routes, so a similar task takes a shorter path instead of rediscovering the screens.
MCP support: works with Claude Code, Codex and other MCP clients, and ships a standalone terminal agent that defaults to GPT-6.1 Terra.
Setup by agent: tell Claude Code to install Poki on your iPhone and it follows the repo's install skill. You only do what iOS asks of you: sign in with an Apple Account, tap Trust and turn on Developer Mode. A free Apple Account works, with signing renewed every 7 days.
Requirements: macOS 14 or later, iOS 18 or later and a USB cable; building from source needs Node.js 24 and Xcode tooling. Open source under AGPL-3.0.
Text it from iMessage or Telegram, "add the shopping list my wife sent to Reminders", and it reads the list in WeChat, opens Reminders, enters the items one by one and replies with the result. You can also give it tasks from a terminal or the Poki app on the phone. If you already use Claude Code or Codex, connect Poki MCP and run on your own subscription, with no separate model account.
Features
Works in real apps: saved places in Xiaohongshu, Maps directions, sending in WeChat, totalling Alipay bills into Notes, checking trains on Trip.com. Tasks that hop between apps are fine.
Four ways in: iMessage, Telegram, a terminal or the native iOS app, so you can hand off a task wherever the thought hits.
Gets faster with use: runs that were verified are compiled into routes, so a similar task takes a shorter path instead of rediscovering the screens.
MCP support: works with Claude Code, Codex and other MCP clients, and ships a standalone terminal agent that defaults to GPT-6.1 Terra.
Setup by agent: tell Claude Code to install Poki on your iPhone and it follows the repo's install skill. You only do what iOS asks of you: sign in with an Apple Account, tap Trust and turn on Developer Mode. A free Apple Account works, with signing renewed every 7 days.
Requirements: macOS 14 or later, iOS 18 or later and a USB cable; building from source needs Node.js 24 and Xcode tooling. Open source under AGPL-3.0.
