watchr turns your AI agent into a QA engineer that drives your iOS simulators, Android emulators, real devices and web apps — tapping, typing, auditing and catching bugs before your users do. One tool. Every platform.
Your AI agent can build features in minutes — then you spend hours tapping through them by hand. Here's what watchr kills.
Before every release you re-tap the same flows by hand across iPhone, Android and the web. Slow, boring, and you still miss bugs.
Hand-rolling adb, xcrun, idb and Playwright scripts breaks on every Xcode/OS update. You maintain plumbing instead of shipping.
iOS, Android and web each need their own setup, drivers and glue code. Cross-platform QA is fragmented and painful.
LLMs can write the code but can't see the running app — so they can't tell if the button actually works or the screen even loads.
Pixel-coordinate taps and missing waits make tests fail randomly. Nobody trusts the suite, so nobody runs it.
"Looks fine on my machine." No screenshots, no video, no audit trail of accessibility, performance or crashes.
Everything your agent needs to drive, observe and audit real apps.
tap, type, swipe, scroll, launch — on simulators, emulators, real USB devices and headed browsers.
Describe a flow in plain English; watchr generates, runs and reports a full regression suite.
Capture video of every run as human-reviewable evidence — iOS, Android & web.
Accessibility, performance, security & SEO audits on every screen — automatically.
Run one flow across many devices at once, or many flows in parallel. One round trip.
Test as different users — locales, viewports, timeouts — without rewiring anything.
watchr --doctor checks your machine and installs what's missing. Zero setup hell.
Catches crashes, ANRs and console errors; stress-test screens with chaos input.
Plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf — any MCP client. No SDK, no rewrite.
One command: claude mcp add watchr -- uvx watchr-mcp. watchr auto-detects your simulator, device or browser.
Tell your agent "test the checkout on Android and find bugs." watchr does the tapping, waiting and observing.
Screenshots, video, audit results and a report — so you know it works before you ship.
Most tools pick a lane — web only, mobile only, or a cloud dashboard that doesn't live in your agent. watchr is the local, in-agent server that covers physical iPhone, Android and web — with audits built in.
| Capability | Web AI agents Playwright MCP, Stagehand |
Cloud QA platforms Sofy, Mobot |
Other mobile MCPs Maestro, mobile-mcp |
watchr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drives the web (real browser) | ✓ | ✓ | partial | ✓ |
| Drives Android | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| iOS Simulator | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Physical iPhone over USB (your device) | — | vendor cloud | some | ✓ |
| Runs locally on your machine | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inside your own AI agent (MCP) | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in audits (a11y · perf · security · SEO) | — | some | — | ✓ |
Comparison based on each tool's public docs / repositories, verified Jun 2026. Categories: web-only MCP servers (Playwright MCP, Stagehand) drive browsers only; cloud QA platforms (Sofy, Mobot) run on the vendor's servers as dashboards, not inside your coding agent; other local mobile MCP servers (Maestro — iOS sim + Android + Chromium; mobile-mcp — native iOS/Android incl. physical) don't bundle a full web backend + audit suite. Fast-moving category — competitors may close gaps.
Playwright MCP & Stagehand stop at the web. watchr drives iOS and Android too — so your agent tests the actual app, not just the site.
Sofy & Mobot are dashboards on the vendor's cloud. watchr runs locally inside your own AI agent — your code and devices never leave your laptop.
Others cover slices. watchr is the one we found that bundles physical iPhone + Android + web + audits in a single local tool.
Drive a single device free, forever. Unlock the full QA engine with Pro — 7-day free trial, no card.
doctor setupNo. You talk to your AI agent in plain English — "test the login and find bugs" — and watchr does the driving, waiting, observing and reporting.
iOS Simulator, physical iPhones over USB, Android emulators & devices, and web apps via Playwright — all through one consistent tool surface.
Locally, on your machine, as an MCP server. It drives your own simulators, devices and browser — your code and data never leave your laptop.
An MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf…) and one command. Run watchr --doctor and it'll install any missing pieces for you.
Driving a single device is free forever. Pro unlocks AI test suites, audits, video, personas, multi-device and parallel runs — with a 7-day free trial, no card required.
Add watchr to your AI coding setup in one line. Your 7-day Pro trial starts automatically.
claude mcp add watchr -- uvx watchr-mcp