Give your AI assistant its own Android phone.
Why an assistant needs a phone
Browsers cover websites. A lot of daily life happens in apps that only exist on a phone: the grocery app, the pharmacy, the parcel locker, the restaurant that only books through its app. A phone of its own lets an assistant work in those apps without touching yours.
| Your own phone | A cloud phone of its own | |
|---|---|---|
| Risk to your device | The agent acts on your personal phone | Separate device; yours is untouched |
| Always available | Only while your phone is on and connected | Starts on demand, parks when idle |
| Payments and codes | Agent sees everything | You approve in a live view link |
| Cost | Free | $0.06/min while running, parked free |
Set it up
Connect your assistant through the MCP server, or the CLI if it runs in a terminal. Sign in to each app once through a live view link. The phone stays signed in while it's parked. Then give it a task:
Use Phonebox to open the grocery app on my phone and add
last week's order to the basket. Read the screen before every action.
Send me the live view link before you pay, and wait for me.
Park the phone when I've confirmed.Use apps the way their terms allow: your own accounts, at a person's pace. Phonebox never retries an action on its own, so a slow response can't become a second order.
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Questions
Can an AI assistant use apps on a phone?
Yes. Give it a cloud Android phone through Phonebox's MCP server or CLI. It reads the screen as text, taps and types, and stays signed in to your apps between tasks. For payments and one-time codes it sends you a live view link, and you finish that step yourself.
Is it safe to let an AI agent use my accounts?
Keep a person in the loop for anything that spends money or can't be undone. The agent's phone is separate from yours, and a live view link lets you approve payments and codes yourself. Phonebox never repeats a write action automatically.
What does it cost?
$0.06 per phone-minute while the phone runs, billed per second. Parked phones are free and stay signed in. A five-minute errand costs about $0.30, plus your model's usage.