jo-duchan/tapflow

A self-hosted Appetize / BrowserStack alternative for mobile QA teams

No WebDriverAgent  ·  2-line setup  ·  MIT

Streams over H.264 with a zero-buffer decoder (no MSE) — latency measurements ↗

v0.x, actively developed — backward-compatible by default; breaking changes are rare and always noted in the changelog. Roadmap →

Mobile QA usually depends on access to simulators, emulators, or physical devices — and that access is uneven across a team.

For mobile developers it means opening Xcode or Android Studio on a Mac. For everyone else, it often means asking a mobile developer every single time:

Backend developer — "How do I install the sandbox build to check what was deployed?"

Product manager — "I keep installing and removing versions just to compare behavior."

Designer — "I need to check the layout across screen sizes, but I don't have the right devices."

Physical devices add their own overhead — OS-version coverage, availability, charging, storage, handoff. Cloud simulator services solve access, but they require uploading internal builds to a third-party service and paying for remote devices while your own Macs can already run the same simulators.

We hit this exact problem, so we built tapflow.