Mobilewright: Playwright for Real Mobile Devices — Deterministic AI Agent Access to iOS and Android
Mobile Next has launched Mobilewright — Playwright for real mobile apps and devices. It gives AI agents deterministic, flake-free access to iOS and Android through one unified API, supporting real devices, simulators, and emulators. It's the programmable mobile runtime built for the AI era.
The Problem: Mobile Automation Has Always Been Flaky
Anyone who has tried to automate mobile app testing knows the pain: timing issues, inconsistent device states, different APIs for iOS vs Android, and the fundamental unreliability of UI-based automation. AI agents hitting these same walls compounds the problem — flaky tools mean unreliable agents.
Mobile Next has launched Mobilewright to fix this.
What Is Mobilewright?
Mobilewright is a programmable mobile runtime — essentially Playwright, but for real mobile apps and devices. It gives AI agents deterministic access to iOS and Android through a unified, stable API that eliminates the flakiness that has long plagued mobile automation.
One API for Everything Mobile
The core value proposition is unification. Mobilewright provides:
- iOS + Android — a single API surface for both platforms
- Real devices — physical hardware connected via the runtime
- Simulators and emulators — software-based environments for CI/CD pipelines
Teams no longer need separate automation frameworks, separate agent integrations, or separate test infrastructure for each platform. Write once, run on anything mobile.
Built for the AI Agent Era
The key design goal is giving AI agents deterministic access to mobile devices. Current mobile automation tools were designed for human-authored test scripts — they expose interactions that are inherently timing-sensitive and state-dependent. When an AI agent tries to use them, unpredictable failures cascade into broken agent loops.
Mobilewright's approach is to build the runtime layer that sits beneath the agent, abstracting away the flakiness at the infrastructure level rather than trying to work around it in prompts or retry logic.
Open Source from Day One
Mobile Next has committed to building Mobilewright fully open source from the start. This positions it as infrastructure-level tooling — the kind of foundational layer that the AI developer community can build on, audit, and extend.
For teams building AI agents that need to interact with mobile apps — whether for QA, accessibility testing, app automation, or autonomous agent workflows — Mobilewright offers a path to reliable, production-grade mobile automation without the traditional fragility.
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