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Shipvo is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 18 tools. Last commit 31 Oct 2026.

Open a React Native app in a simulated phone: read the screen, tap, type, set device state.

Uptime history 17 hours of history
17 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
61 of 61 checks
18
Tools
read from the server
118 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 31 Oct 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Shipvo every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add shipvo --transport http https://sim.shipvo.dev/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://sim.shipvo.dev/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.shipvo]
url = "https://sim.shipvo.dev/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shipvo": {
      "url": "https://sim.shipvo.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "shipvo": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sim.shipvo.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 18

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

device
device_log
What the app did with the device in this session: permission prompts and answers, location reads, scans, fingerprint checks, payments, notifications, shares.
device_reset
Put the simulated phone back to a known state (permissions undetermined, default location, nothing in front of the camera, log cleared), optionally with a new profile.
set_device
Change what the simulated phone has: location, a barcode in front of the camera, permission states, whether the fingerprint will match, whether a payment will be approved, network on/off. Takes effect for the next action.
open
open_app
Open an app in a fresh phone-sized session and return its first screen.
open_notification
Tap a notification from the shade (newest if no id is given): the app handles it exactly as if its banner was tapped.
owner
owner_command
Run an owner command against the live app (changes are audited; `publish` makes them live on every phone within seconds).
owner_describe
List the owner commands of an app (content, prices, offers, orders, publish). Needs PN_OWNER_TOKEN.
apps
list_apps
Apps this server can open, with what each one does. Optional query filters by name, description or category (e.g. 'shop', 'douala').
back
back
Go back one screen.
end
end_session
Close the session and get a report: steps taken, and the orders the app sent to its backend during the session.
notifications
notifications
The notification shade: notifications delivered to the simulated phone in this session (their banners vanish after 5 s, like a heads-up on a real phone).
push
push_notification
Deliver a push notification to the simulated phone; it appears as a banner the agent can tap.
screen
screen
The current screen as an accessibility tree with refs.
screenshot
screenshot
A PNG of the phone screen (for checking layout, colours, images). The tree from `screen` is usually enough to act.
scroll
scroll
Scroll the page (down/up) or a horizontal rail (right/left, give the rail's ref). Returns the new screen.
sessions
list_sessions
Open simulator sessions (phones) on this server: id, app, release and when each started. Use to resume after a reconnect.
tap
tap
Tap a button, link or choice by ref. Returns the new screen.
type
type
Type into a text field by ref (replaces its content). Returns the new screen.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://sim.shipvo.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 131 ms 4 min ago

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Shipvo — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Shipvo do?
It exposes 18 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: back, device_log, device_reset, end_session, list_apps, list_sessions and 12 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
What is Shipvo mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around device, open and owner. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Shipvo working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 61 of 61 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 118 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Shipvo?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Shipvo need an API key?
No. Shipvo completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 18 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Shipvo?
It answers our handshake in 118 ms on average, which is faster than 89% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Shipvo open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in HTML, 1 stars on GitHub and 4 open issues. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at sim.shipvo.dev, which runs on its operator's own terms.