Mobilewright
Automation Frameworks
Open source
<What you get/>
Mobile coverage your existing Playwright engineers can read and extend on day one
One deterministic API across iOS and Android, with consistent timing behaviour
A fast local loop through zero-config simulator discovery
A clear recommendation on where Appium remains the safer choice
What it is
Mobilewright is an open-source mobile automation framework from Mobile Next HQ, built around a single TypeScript API that drives both iOS and Android. It borrows Playwright’s ergonomics — auto-waiting, chainable locators and retrying assertions — so a mobile suite reads much like a web one, and it ships its own test runner and a CLI that auto-discovers simulators with no configuration. It targets UIKit, SwiftUI, React Native and Expo apps, on simulators and real devices. Unlike Appium, it does not sit on WebDriver; the API is its own.
How PerfectQA uses Mobilewright
We use Mobilewright where a team already writes Playwright for the web and wants mobile coverage without adopting a second mental model. The API deliberately mirrors Playwright’s — auto-waiting, chainable locators, retrying assertions — so a web automation engineer can read and extend the mobile suite immediately, which is usually the real constraint on mobile coverage rather than tooling capability. Zero-config simulator discovery makes the local loop short, so developers run mobile tests before pushing instead of leaving them to CI. Because it drives iOS and Android through one deterministic API rather than sitting on WebDriver, the timing behaviour is consistent across platforms and we spend less time reconciling platform-specific waits. It is a newer framework than Appium, so we scope it deliberately: strong fit for React Native and Expo apps, and we will recommend Appium where the ecosystem maturity matters more.
Category
Automation Frameworks
In our stack
1 years
Projects
2 delivered
Frequent questions
Is it built on Playwright?
Mobilewright or Appium?
Which app frameworks does it support?
Is it mature enough to depend on?
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