Give your AI agent a real Android phone
An MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or OpenClaw use the real apps on your Android phone or cloud phone: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, or any app you have.
Most WhatsApp MCPs skip the phone.
Ours uses the real apps.
The WhatsApp MCP servers on GitHub and OpenClaw's WhatsApp channel connect as a linked device, the way WhatsApp Web does, from a bridge on your computer or a server. Phone MCPs that drive Android go through ADB, from a computer with USB debugging on.
MationX puts a small app on the phone itself. Your agent connects to one URL, sees the screen the way you do, and uses any app on it: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, your bank, your own app.
Your agent asks. A real phone does it.
01The difference
An MCP for the phone, not for one protocol. Whatever app is on it, your agent can use.
- The real app on a real phoneA linked device, like WhatsApp Web, paired by QR
- Any Android app, one connectorOne app, one bridge per app
- Nothing to run on your computerA bridge you install and keep online
- Sees the screen: the UI tree and a screenshotMessages and contacts the protocol hands over
- Saved flows keep running without the agentWorks only while the agent does
A WhatsApp MCP on a web session gives your agent one app, through a second device linked to your account, and only while the bridge on your computer stays up.
MationX Client runs on the phone and reads the screen the way the phone's own accessibility does. The agent opens the app you name, finds the field, types and taps send. The same connector works for every app on the phone, and nothing has to run on your computer.
Compare with mobile-mcp, Droidrun and WhatsApp MCPs02What your agent can do
Everything you do with your thumb. Through one MCP connector.
You, to your AI agent
Tell Anna I'm on my way
mationx_device_open_app
WhatsApp, Anna's chat
mationx_device_screen
Found the message field
mationx_device_element_action
set_text: On my way 🚗
mationx_device_element_action
click: Send
Anna
online
You ask, the phone does it
Your agent picks the MationX tools it needs, opens the app, reads the screen, types and sends, then tells you what it did. A WhatsApp MCP, an Instagram MCP and a TikTok MCP in one connector.
Sees the screen
The UI tree with every element, and a screenshot when it needs to look.
Opens apps and moves around
Any installed app by name, plus home, back, recents and the notification shade.
Taps, types and scrolls
Click, long press, type into a field or scroll, on the element it found.
Anna Are we still on for tonight?
Payment received $240.00 from S. Turner
maya.rose Hi! Are you open on Sunday?
Reads notifications
What came in on the phone, as a list: app, sender, text, time.
Runs your saved flows
Starts a Studio automation on one phone or many, and it keeps running after.
Builds automations for you
Ask for an automation and it creates the project and its flows in Studio.
mationx_get_execution · finished in 5.7 s
Every run traced
Each step with its result and duration, so the agent can see what happened.
Allow your AI agent to
Permissions you choose
When you connect, you tick what your agent may do. Nothing else is open.
03How it works
Three steps, a few minutes. Then your agent has a phone.
01
Put MationX Client on the phone
Any Android phone or cloud phone, Android 8 and up. No root and no computer.
Add a custom connector
Server URL
02
Add the MCP URL to your AI app
Paste https://mcp.mationx.com as a custom connector and sign in. No API key needed.
mationx_device_open_app
Instagram, Messages
mationx_device_screen
3 unread, 1 question
03
Ask, and it uses the phone
Your agent reads the screen, opens apps, taps, types and runs your saved flows.
04What it is used for
Anything you do on a phone. Now your agent can too.
WhatsApp: Anna asks if 7 still works.
Instagram: 2 DMs, one about Sunday hours.
WhatsApp and Instagram from your AI
Read, answer and follow up in your real chats without picking up the phone.
Test: checkout flow
mationx_test_projectPassed on a real Android phone
Testing your app on a real phone
Your agent walks through the flow on a real device and tells you where it broke.
mationx_device_notifications
9 notifications read
A payment from Sam, Anna about tonight, and your parcel arrives at 14:00.
A personal assistant with a phone
What came in, what needs an answer, what is due today, straight from the phone.
Courier app · New pick-up
Apps that have no API
Bookings, couriers, banking or your own back office: filled in the way you would.
Farm flows from your AI
Start, stop and check the automations on your phones with one sentence.
05Compared
Phone MCPs, side by side. What each one actually connects to.
 An app on your phone | Open-source Android MCPsmobile-mcp, Droidrun, Android-MCP | WhatsApp MCP on a web sessionwhatsapp-mcp, OpenClaw's WhatsApp | Hosted phone agentsMobilerun Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uses the real apps on an Android phone | A linked device, like WhatsApp Web | Your phone or their virtual ones | ||
| Any app, not just WhatsApp | WhatsApp only | |||
| Nothing to run on your computer | ADB and USB debugging | A bridge you keep running | ||
| Your own phone, without a computer next to it | Tethered to the computer | Your account, re-paired by QR | A paid add-on | |
| Saved flows that keep running without the agent | — | |||
| Set up and kept working for you | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | |
| How you pay | Free during beta for 1 phone | Free, open source | Free, open source | Free plan; $20–299 a month, own phone +$5 |
As of November 2026, from each project's own README, docs or pricing page; a dash means we could not confirm it. Building your own agent stack and happy to run ADB? The open-source Android MCPs are a good start, and we will tell you so.
06You stay in control
Your phone. Your rules. You decide what the agent may touch.
Your phone, your accounts
It runs on your phone or the cloud phone you rent, signed in to your own apps. Your agent and your model stay yours.
This sends a message from your phone to Anna. Go ahead?
Yes, send itmationx_device_element_action
click: Send
Actions you can see
Tools that change something on the phone are marked as actions, so your AI app can ask you before it runs them.
Developer settings
Claude Desktop
Connected 3 Nov
Test script
Revoked just now
Access you can take back
Every connected AI app and every API key is listed in Studio's Developer settings, and one click revokes it.
07Pricing
Free while it is in beta. One phone to start, more when you need them.
Beta
Start hereFree during beta
1 phone, every MCP tool, with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
- 1 Android phone or cloud phone
- Screen, apps, taps, typing, notifications
- Saved flows from Studio
- Permissions you choose, revocable
More phones
Message us
For several phones, a team, or flows we build and run for you.
- As many phones as you run
- Flows built and kept working by us
- Your own phones or cloud phones
Questions. About the Android MCP.
Something we didn't cover?
Tell us which AI app you use and what it should do on the phone. You get an answer within a day, from the person who built it.
Any MCP client that connects to a remote MCP server with sign-in: Claude Desktop and claude.ai (Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, OpenClaw and others. You paste https://mcp.mationx.com, sign in with your MationX account and choose what the agent may do.
The open-source WhatsApp MCP servers connect to WhatsApp as a linked device, the way WhatsApp Web does, through a bridge you run on your computer, and they only do WhatsApp. MationX uses the real WhatsApp app on your Android phone, and the same connector works for Instagram, TikTok or any other app on it.
Yes. It is not tied to one app: your agent reads the screen and uses whatever app you name, so Instagram, TikTok, Telegram or your own app work through the same connector.
No. MationX Client runs on stock Android 8 and up, rooted or not, and talks to MationX over the internet. There is no ADB, no USB cable and nothing to keep running on your computer.
Yes. The same client runs on cloud Android phones you rent as on your own handsets and box phones.
Read the screen as a UI tree and as a screenshot, list and open apps, go home, back or to recents, click, type and scroll on elements, read notifications, read and set values the automations use, and build, test and run your saved Studio flows. Only what you allowed when you connected it.
You choose the permissions when you connect, actions that change something are marked so your AI app can ask you first, and you can revoke any connection or API key in Studio's Developer settings at any time. It runs on your phone, with your own accounts.
Yes. Ask the agent to build an automation and run it on the phone: it keeps running on its own schedule or trigger in Studio, without the agent.
Free during beta for 1 phone. For more phones, or flows we build and run for you, message us.
Tell us what your agent should do. We answer within a day.
- Which AI app or agent you use
- Which apps it should use on the phone
- Your own phone, a cloud phone or several
- Whether it should run on its own too
Give your agent a phone
The real apps on your Android phone, through one MCP URL. Free in beta.
WhatsApp and Instagram are trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. TikTok is a trademark of ByteDance Ltd. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC. MationX is not affiliated with any of them.