{"slug": "phone-harness-let-your-agent-use-your-phone", "title": "Phone Harness: let your agent use your phone", "summary": "Phone Harness launched an open-source tool that lets AI agents tap, type and scroll through apps on iPhones and Androids using the phone's interface, with no jailbreak, API or app install required, reading the screen via vision OCR or the accessibility tree. The company also opened a Phone Harness Cloud beta offering hosted iPhones and Androids or a user's own device, with new accounts starting at $5 of credit for Android emulators at 5¢ per minute and real iPhones sold as a flat subscription. Pricing runs from a $0/month Basic pay-as-you-go tier and a $20/month Plus tier with 1,000 included phone-minutes (4¢ per minute after) to Cloud iPhone at $64/month billed annually ($80 monthly, or $80/$100 with eSIM) and a Scale tier of dedicated real phones.", "body_md": "Open source / Phone control\n\n# Let your agent use your phone.\n\nLet your AI agent tap, type, and scroll through the apps on your iPhone or Android.\n\n## Tap. Type. Scroll.\n\nYour agent uses the phone interface, just like you do. No jailbreak, no API, no app to install.\n\n## Read the screen.\n\nVision OCR or the phone’s accessibility tree for eyes. Real input for hands.\n\n## Bring your own agent.\n\niPhone through iPhone Mirroring, even in the background. Android over adb.\n\nPhone Harness Cloud · Open beta\n\n## Give your agent its own phone.\n\nHosted iPhones and Androids, or your own. Same harness, same skill, from anywhere.\n\nNew accounts start with $5 of credit for Android emulators, 5¢ a minute. Real iPhones are a flat subscription. [See pricing](https://phone-harness.com/#pricing).\n\n- \n**Stealth** Real hardware. Apps see a person.\n- \n**Real phone numbers** SMS and 2FA handled.\n- \n**Persistent state** Logins survive between runs.\n- \n**Unlimited devices** One phone or a hundred, at once.\n- \n**Bring your own phone** Hook up your phone and drive it from anywhere.\n\n## Pricing\n\n### Basic\n\nCloud Android, pay as you go\n\n$0/mo\n\n5¢ per phone-minute\n\n[Sign in or create an account](https://phone-harness.com/dashboard)\n\n- $5 of credit to start\n- Keeps apps and logins between sessions\n- Live viewer\n- Agent API\n- MCP server\n\n### Plus\n\nCloud Android for regular use\n\n$20/mo\n\n1,000 phone-minutes included\n\n[Get Plus](https://phone-harness.com/dashboard/billing)\n\nEverything in Basic, plus:\n\n- 4¢ per phone-minute after the 1,000\n- Included minutes reset every month\n\n### Cloud iPhone\n\nYour agent’s own iPhone\n\nSave 20%\n\n$64~~Regular price $80~~/mo\n\nWith eSIM: **$80** ~~Regular price $100~~/mo\n\nBilled annually\n\n$80/mo\n\nWith eSIM: **$100**/mo\n\n[Book a demo](https://cal.com/shawnpana/phone-harness-demo)\n\nEverything in Basic, plus:\n\n- A real device, not an emulator\n- A real phone number, with eSIM\n- Not billed by the minute\n\n### Scale\n\nDedicated real phones, iPhone or Android, kept on and reserved for you around the clock.\n\n- Multiple profiles per phone\n- Concurrency set to your workload\n- Proxies of your choice\n- Invoicing and volume pricing\n\n[Contact us](https://cal.com/shawnpana/phone-harness-demo)\n\nOr email [support@phone-harness.com](mailto:support@phone-harness.com?subject=Phone%20Harness%20custom%20plan).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/phone-harness-let-your-agent-use-your-phone", "canonical_source": "https://phone-harness.com/", "published_at": "2026-11-05 01:59:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-05 02:21:32.781024+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "agent-protocols"], "entities": ["Phone Harness", "Phone Harness Cloud", "iPhone", "Android", "adb", "iPhone Mirroring", "MCP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/phone-harness-let-your-agent-use-your-phone", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/phone-harness-let-your-agent-use-your-phone.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/phone-harness-let-your-agent-use-your-phone.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/phone-harness-let-your-agent-use-your-phone.jsonld"}}