Macswarm
Hosted Mac Pods for Claude Code and Codex
Developer Tools·Data & Infrastructure
What is Macswarm?
Macswarm gives Claude Code and Codex hosted Mac Pods with the Latest Xcode and pre-booted iOS Simulators. Coding agents can build and test iOS apps, launch them in Simulator and inspect screenshots in a hosted macOS environment. Separate git worktrees keep changes from parallel agent tasks apart. Usage is billed per Pod-hour. The Free plan includes a one-time allocation of 3 Pod-hours; paid plans add Pod-hours. Macswarm is in early access, with onboarding in signup order. The public ios-agent-kit repository on GitHub includes an ios-build-and-test skill for agent workflows.
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