I made an AI that reviews iPhone apps – 1h of autonomous GUI work

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I've been building Understudy, an open-source GUI agent for macOS. Wanted to push the GUI stuff beyond the usual short demos, so I tried turning it into an iPhone app reviewer.You give it one prompt. It browses the real App Store in Chrome, installs the app on a real iPhone through macOS iPhone Mirroring (not a simulator), opens the app and explores it — never seen Snapseed before — records clips and screenshots, composites a narrated review video with FFmpeg locally, uploads it to YouTube, then deletes the app. About an hour, didn't touch the keyboard.The exploration part is what I'm happiest with. The agent reads the App Store description, goes "they say background removal works, let me tr

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Website: understudy-ai.github.io/understudy