I’ve been working on a personal iOS project lately¹ and want to get out of the business of manually testing all the changes. I’ve found Simon Willison’s Showboat tool very useful in my professional life, and decided to build out a tool similar to Rodney. Pippin leverages WebDriverAgent to provide a CLI for LLMs to interact with the simulator.

You can run Pippin using uvx pippin-ios or install it like this:

uv tool install pippin-ios

A quick demo:

pippin launch com.apple.mobilesafari # open Safari
pippin context # get information about the content and controls on screen
pippin tap Address
pippin type https://pypi.org/project/pippin-ios/
pippin tap Go
pippin screenshot /tmp/ios-screenshot.png