Show HN: Android AI agent-assistant operating your apps (no adb,PC,root,etc.)
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Published: 2026-04-12T11:48:16.000Z
Hi HN,We built Sova AI https://ayconic.io/sova, an Android assistant agent that actually controls and operates your apps. It's not a chat and not another LLM wrapper.We were incredibly frustrated with the current state of mobile AI. Built-in assistants like Gemini are deeply integrated into the OS, yet if you ask them to "Order an Uber to the airport", they mostly just give you web search results or a button to open the app yourself. They don't do the work. (The Perplexity "assistant" is just a browser agent :/ )So, we built an agent that does operate your phone. (NO root, NO adb, NO PC, NO appium/whatever, NO usb, NO browser)How it works: You give Sova a prompt - either voice or text, you can make it a default assistant if you like. Instead of relying on non-existent official app APIs, Sova acts as a virtual human - clicks, scrolls, types etc. It uses the Android Accessibility API to read the screen's UI node tree. About AI models - currently we support main AI cloud providers (OpenAI...
Original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738583