Glasshand

Glasshand hosts real iPhones and Macs in its own data center and rents them, month to month, to AI agents. Instead of asking an agent to imagine what a phone or a desktop looks like, you give it an actual device that it can see and operate. You connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, or any other agent through the Glasshand API, and the agent rents an iPhone or a Mac from glasshand.com with a prompt. From there it can watch the screen and tap, type, or click exactly the way a person would. Glasshand is aimed at people who want their agents doing real work inside Apple's ecosystem: running social accounts, building and testing native apps in Xcode, or handling everyday admin that lives behind a sign-in. The page frames the core problem as realism. Glasshand runs real iPhones and Macs, "not virtual machines, emulators, or simulators," and asks why a real device is better. The answer it gives is that a rented device works just like the iPhone or Mac you use every day: it reaches Apple's ecosystem, it can carry a real phone number, and it can be locked with a password you set yourself. That matters for the kinds of tasks that break on a simulated device, such as installing apps from the App Store, receiving a verification text at a phone number, or completing sign-in and checkout flows on hardware that behaves like the phone in a customer's hand. Control happens through a dedicated controller. The agent asks the controller to show the screen, the controller looks, and the iPhone answers with what is displayed, for example the home screen. The agent then works through steps the way a person does: see the screen, open the browser, type a search, and check the result. Glasshand illustrates this with a simple goal, "Find the weather in San Francisco," where the agent reads the screen, opens the browser, types the query, and verifies the answer. Because the loop is see-then-act, the same approach carries from a one-off lookup to multi-step work inside apps, and the agent responds to what is actually on screen rather than to a fixed script. Because the hardware is genuine, the software is genuine too. Agents download real apps, including Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and more, from the App Store rather than working against stripped-down replicas. An iPhone can also be given its own phone number by adding an eSIM plan with SMS, which lets the agent receive verification texts and use iMessage. That combination is what makes account-based work possible: a verification code arriving at the device's own number is exactly the step that stalls an agent running anywhere without one. Users also set a real password that locks the device, just as they would on their own phone. The third piece is account context. Users sign in to iCloud and the apps they already use, so the agent can work with calendars, contacts, messages, and files to get tasks done with the context it needs. This is the difference between an agent that can open an app and an agent that can act inside it. Glasshand also states that the setup persists: apps, files, and sign-ins stay put between tasks until the device is released. A single rented device therefore accumulates your configuration once, and every later task your agent runs starts from a device that is already signed in and already equipped. The rental lifecycle is stated plainly. Your device starts factory-reset, ready for your apps and accounts. It is not shared with other customers, it is yours alone, and you set the password. When you release it, Glasshand erases your data and restores the device to factory settings, and the controller is wiped and reset too. Sessions are not billed by the hour or the day; devices are rented month to month, and you can cancel at any time. If you cancel, your device stays available until the end of your current billing period, then your subscription ends. Getting started is designed to happen inside the agent's chat rather than in a separate console. You tell your agent to rent an iPhone or a Mac, paste the prompt Glasshand provides, and then approve and pay when the agent asks. The same flow is offered for both device types: rent an iPhone from glasshand.com and connect so the agent can see the screen, tap, and type, or rent a Mac and connect so it can see the screen, click, and type. Glasshand lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, and Hermes as compatible, alongside any other agent that connects through the API, and a demo can be booked as well. Glasshand names three broad jobs. Running your socials means posting on Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn, replying to comments and DMs, finding leads, and following up, which depends on being signed in as a real account on a real app. Building and testing apps means building native apps in Xcode on a hosted Mac and testing sign-in and checkout on a real Mac or iPhone, so the flows that usually fail only in production get exercised on real hardware instead. Working with your accounts means signing in to iCloud and the apps you use so the agent can reach calendars, contacts, messages, and files. Everyday admin sits alongside these, and the site sums up a device's purpose as running social media, building and testing native apps, and handling everyday admin. The people this suits are those already directing agents and wanting them to reach places an API alone cannot: social media teams and founders posting across Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn; developers who need real hardware for Xcode builds and for sign-in and checkout tests; and anyone whose calendars, contacts, messages, and files live behind an iCloud sign-in. The requirement is an agent that can call the Glasshand API, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, or anything else, and a willingness to rent month to month rather than by the hour or day. The proposition is narrow and concrete: your agent gets a real iPhone or Mac, hosted and maintained by Glasshand, that it controls by seeing the screen and acting on it, that keeps your apps and sign-ins between tasks, and that is erased and factory-reset when you let it go.