Cursor has launched an official iPhone app, and it is not the mobile code editor many developers expected. The app, now available on the App Store, is built around a single idea: letting developers monitor and interact with Cursor’s AI background agents from their iPhone while away from their desk.
The App Store listing describes it plainly as a way to “work with your agents on the go,” which signals that it is not trying to recreate its full VS Code-based desktop IDE on a phone screen. The app positions itself as a companion to the desktop experience, giving developers visibility into long-running AI tasks, review changes, and ship PRs, without requiring them to be in front of a Mac or PC. That distinction reframes what a mobile coding tool can be, particularly as AI agents handle more of the work independently.
Here is everything the new Cursor app lets you do:
- Open the Cursor app, choose a repo, and launch an agent. You can pick any frontier model, explain what you want using voice input, and use slash commands to point Cursor in the right direction.
- For agents running on your computer, Remote Control lets you keep guiding them from your phone. You can also enable a setting to keep your machine awake, so it stays reachable when you are away from your desk.
- Cursor also supports Live Activities on the lock screen and push notifications, so you know when an agent finishes, needs input, or is ready for review.
- Cloud agents make the review process easier by producing demos, screenshots, and logs. Once an agent completes a task, you can review the generated artifacts, inspect diffs, leave follow-up instructions, or merge the PR directly from the app.
- Cloud agents run in isolated virtual machines with full development environments, which means they can test, verify, and demo work on their own. Since they run asynchronously with their own tools and resources, they can keep working for longer and iterate toward merge-ready PRs without constant supervision.
- To use these capabilities, you can send a local plan to a cloud agent or move an active agent to the cloud so it can keep running. You can also bring the cloud session back to your computer to test changes locally before merging.
For users who are still using Cursor instead of Codex or Claude Code, this is a much awaited update. Note that Cursor is only available on iPhone but not iPad, which limits it against other apps like Replit in the App Store.
