Tophat by Shopify - Test mobile CI builds on any device without building locally

Tophat by Shopify is an open-source macOS app that pulls CI build artifacts and installs them directly on simulators or physical iOS and Android devices, no local clone or build required.

It solves the "I have to build this myself just to see if it works" problem that slows down every mobile engineer reviewing someone else's PR. Give the agent a branch name, PR number, or URL and a target device. It finds the right build, installs it via Tophat, and you're testing in seconds. The manual handoff is gone.

Key features:

• CI artifact install directly to simulators and physical devices

• Claude Code integration for agent-triggered installs

• Quick Launch for pinning favourite app builds to the menu bar

• tophatctl CLI for scripting and CI pipeline integration

• TophatKit SDK for custom artifact providers and build systems

• File association support for .ipa, .apk, and .zip

Built for iOS and Android engineers who review PRs regularly and want to cut the build-first tax out of their workflow entirely. If you could hand one more step in your mobile review workflow to an AI agent, what would it be?

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Congrats on your launch!!

Waiting for Xcode or Gradle to rebuild an entire branch just to review a quick PR is the ultimate mobile dev productivity killer. 🛑 This looks like a massive lifesaver for keeping team momentum up and making QA loops way faster.