Cursor released a native iOS app on June 29, in public beta on all paid plans, giving developers a way to launch, steer, and review AI coding agents without sitting at a desktop. The app connects to both cloud-hosted agent sessions and agents running on a developer's own machine, extending Cursor's push toward autonomous, less-supervised coding agents that began with an October 2025 release.

What the app does

From the iOS app, developers can kick off a new agent session using voice input or Cursor's slash commands, choosing from any of the frontier models Cursor supports. Agents can run as "always-on" cloud sessions or under Remote Control of a session already running on the developer's computer. Live Activities on the lock screen track an agent's status, and push notifications fire when an agent needs input, finishes a task, or has a pull request ready for review. From there, developers can inspect diffs, review generated demos, screenshots, and logs, leave follow-up instructions, and merge the pull request directly from the phone — without returning to the desktop IDE.

The backdrop: a pending $60 billion acquisition

The launch comes two weeks after Anysphere, Cursor's parent company, agreed to a $60 billion all-stock acquisition by SpaceX, announced June 16 and expected to close in the third quarter of 2026 pending regulatory approval. The deal, one of the largest acquisitions of a venture-backed startup on record, follows SpaceX's earlier merger with Elon Musk's xAI. Cursor and xAI have reportedly been jointly training a model on xAI's Colossus supercomputing infrastructure that is expected to ship inside both Cursor and xAI's Grok Build. Cursor crossed roughly $4 billion in annualized revenue earlier this year, with more than 50,000 enterprise customers.

Why it matters

Mobile access to coding agents reflects a broader shift in how developers are expected to work with agentic tools: less time watching a terminal, more time triaging agent output asynchronously, similar to reviewing a colleague's pull requests. Cursor is offering a limited-time promotion of 75% off Composer 2.5 runs in the mobile app through July 5, 2026, to drive early adoption of the beta.