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AppClaw: Automate Mobile Tasks with Simple English Commands

AppClaw lets founders script Android and iOS actions by describing them in plain English. Open‑source, LLM‑agnostic, and runs without telemetry.

From the repo · “AI-powered mobile automation agent — describe what you want in plain English, AppClaw reads the screen, reasons, and acts. LLM-agnostic, open-source, zero telemetry.”

118 stars+1★ this week23 forksTypeScriptGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Oct 22Updated 9/3/2026100% free · open source
What it does

AppClaw automates mobile testing by reading the screen, reasoning, and acting based on plain English descriptions, without requiring any coding knowledge

When to use it
  • •When you need to automate repetitive mobile testing tasks
  • •When you want to test your mobile app on multiple devices and platforms
  • •When you need to integrate automated mobile testing into your continuous integration and deployment pipeline
Ready-to-paste prompt
ts-node src/main.ts --test examples/example.test.ts --device Android --app path/to/your/app.apk
Heads up: AppClaw requires Node.js 16 or higher and TypeScript 4 or higher to be installed, and also requires the Appium server to be running and configured properly
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🛠️ Technical setup

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mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/appclaw && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/appclaw/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/appclaw/SKILL.md
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How AppClaw: Automate Mobile Tasks with Simple English Commands works
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AppClaw: Automate Mobile Tasks with Simple English Commands is a large TypeScript project (~49k lines across 216 code files, plus 65 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit 2 months ago, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size
Large codebase
~49k lines · 216 code files · ~7 h to skim
Setup
Developer setup
A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.
Runs on
Node.js
No API keys detected
TypeScript 82%HTML 14%Astro 4%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    CLAUDE.md
    The instructions the AI actually follows
  3. 3
    action.yml
    Where the program starts running
  4. 4
    package.json
    Dependencies and the commands it exposes
  5. 5
    examples/basic-goal.ts
    A worked example — copy this to get going
What's in each folder
packages/Sub-packages / plugins210 files
flows/Workflows / pipelines5 files
examples/Examples you can copy20 files
docs/Documentation6 files
landing/Project website26 files
vscode-extension/Folder22 files
github-action/Folder8 files
openspec/Folder4 files
READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksExamples includedApache-2.0 licenseUpdated 2 mo ago
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Details
Creator
AppiumTestDistribution
Language
TypeScript
Category
mcp-server
Published
3/23/2026

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