Cursor for iOS - Build with coding agents from anywhere
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Cursor is now available as a native iOS app in public beta, so you can build from anywhere.
Until now, developers have worked around the limits of their local machines, keeping laptops half-open and caffeinated everywhere they go.
With Cursor for iOS, you can launch always-on agents in the cloud, or control agents running on your computer from your phone. Kick them off when ideas strike, get notified when work is ready for review, and merge PRs on the go.
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Hey all! I'm Chris, Mobile Lead at Cursor, excited to hear what you think of our new app. We'll be around to answer questions throughout the day!
@cbrauchli I really hope you announce the Android version very soon
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@ayoub3bidi Android is planned. :)
@cbrauchli Why is Android treated like a second thought by large AI companies?
Voice input from the phone sounds useful, but I’d be nervous sending a messy spoken prompt straight to an agent. Does Cursor turn it into an editable brief first, or does the agent start from the raw voice request?
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@novamaker01 You get editable text from your voice request first! Allows you to edit any of the text before you send to the agent.
The mobile part I keep thinking about is the review step. Kicking off agents from a phone is easy, but merging on the go means approving diffs on a screen where you can't really read a diff, and every time we've moved approvals to a phone people start rubber-stamping. So the agent's summary of what it changed becomes the real gate, not the diff. Does the app surface anything risk-ranked, like this touched auth or deleted tests, or is review just scrolling the raw changes?
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@dipankar_sarkar We thought very carefully about this since phone screens are smaller and have less real estate. The diff view is more focused and designed for mobile, so hope you check it out and let us know what you think! Agents also produce demos, screenshots, and logs as artifacts for your review.
Congrats on the iOS launch! 🚀
The most useful part for me is not full coding on mobile, but starting agents, checking progress, and reviewing work while away from the laptop.
Curious how Cursor handles mobile review safety. Does it highlight risky changes like auth, payments, database migrations, or deleted tests before someone approves or merges from a small screen?
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@prashant_patil14 Would highly recommend turning on Bugbot if you're interested in code review by Cursor! In our own internal dev setup, we have Bugbot give each PR a risk rating.
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@prashant_patil14 thanks, Prashant! The review on mobile is focused on formal blockers to merge like CI and reviewers. More coming soon to make this a more complete experience.
Love it! Really like the possibility to start working on my mac and continue working in the app.
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@alfh Let us know what you think after you give it a try!
Can I switch seamlessly between an agent running in the cloud and one running on my local machine, or do they have separate workflows?
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@nitesh_kumar98 In the desktop app, you can hand off a session between cloud and local seamlessly. It's basically the same workflow running in different environments with some differences in capabilities since giving agents their own isolated VM is a big unlock.
This is a really helpful update! I used Cursor on my computer, and I really like how efficient it is; it saved a lot of time for me. The ios version can definitely help me to continue working when I step away from the computer. I can manually review it on my phone, but when I go back to desk, will it automatically pick up what I did on my phone, and synchronous message history?
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@xinrui1 Yes it will! You'll see your full message history, PRs, and prompts from all Cursor surfaces
@aryamank Thank you! That is super helpful.
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Exciting, congrats on the launch! Did y'all discover any use cases for the mobile app during testing that you didn't envision before building?
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@mike_ciesielka1 personally, I've been pleasantly surprised by how much of my dev process I can do entirely from the app. For the past month or so I've been building a lot of the app from the app itself, which wasn't something I really expected going in. Anytime I noticed something off, I'd kick off an agent right there and have a new build to test a little while later. Surprisingly satisfying!
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@cbrauchli using the app to build the app 💪
The mobile angle for coding agents is interesting, especially with Cursor already being associated with dev workflows. How much of the iOS experience is meant for actually editing code versus steering an agent through prompts, reviews, and approvals? I’d also be curious whether the app is optimized for existing projects or if it supports starting lightweight tasks from scratch while on the go.
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@crystalmei at Cursor, our engineers don't manually edit code much anymore! We're using the mobile app to steer and manage agents—both for existing projects and new ones that we kick off on the go.
I love this idea of using cursor from iPhone. We can truly go mobile, and work can still continue on a system siting at office or home.
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@tarunsng exactly! Looking forward to your feedback.