AURA 1.0.462

AURA 1.0.462

Voice-controlled phone automation that runs entirely on your device.

What's new

The on-screen caption

• The caption now stays with AURA's voice all the way to the end of a sentence. It used to freeze partway through and vanish a second and a half later, while AURA was still talking.
• Words no longer get clipped mid-way — "one" used to appear as "on" until the next letters caught up.
• Text is brighter, and each new word fades in as it's spoken instead of snapping on letter by letter.

What the strip shows

• The strip now only ever shows what AURA actually did, described from the result of each action. The model's own raw working-out could previously leak onto your screen.

Screen behaviour

• Your screen no longer times out while the AURA strip is on it — during a conversation as well as during a task.

Reliability

• Fixed a deadlock on any screen that redraws continuously — a playing video, a live view count, a spinner. AURA could get stuck in a look-tap-retry loop and never act. Whether a tap is still safe is now judged on the button itself rather than on the whole screen.

Install

Download the APK below and open it. You'll need to allow installs from your browser once.
Updating over an existing AURA install keeps your memory, skills, and paired clients.

• SHA-256: 387d2ed37f5db094d4f1d2be5003d4b2f5a6fe09ca446756b990c0b17d9133d4

Known limitations

• Same Wi-Fi only. Connecting a desktop client requires the phone and computer on the same network (no relay server yet).
• No automatic updates. You'll see an in-app banner when a new version is out; updating is a manual download.
• Large download (~160 MB). Bundled on-device models account for most of it.

AURA 1.0.438

AURA 1.0.438

Voice-controlled phone automation that runs entirely on your device.

What's new

Account & access

• Real Google sign-in from Settings — the old "coming soon" button now actually signs you in.
• Your account shows on the phone row, and the ten separate rows are folded back into one.
• The access gate now survives a reinstall, and onboarding no longer forgets the name you gave it.

Voice

• AURA speaks up when a task starts instead of going silent for up to a minute.
• Questions AURA asks mid-task ("which one?") can now be answered by voice, and answering no longer pauses the run.

What AURA shows you

• The activity trace now shows what AURA did, in plain terms — not how it's built internally.

Reliability

• Runs no longer die at ten turns on a well-cached task.
• When AURA runs out of its step budget it now answers with what it has, instead of stopping cold.
• If the model garbles an action into text, AURA recovers the intended answer instead of reading the garble aloud.

Safety

• AURA refuses to read one-time passcodes out to anyone and refuses bulk-delete requests.
• Actions that change something now require AURA to verify the result before moving on.

Performance

• Leaner internal instructions and tool descriptions — every request is smaller, so runs are faster and cheaper.

Install

Download the APK below and open it. You'll need to allow installs from your browser once.
Updating over an existing AURA install keeps your memory, skills, and paired clients.

• SHA-256: 8eb2779559b1b162dc27ccab63c57bee3d01dfee906f8dd47c052cd3a1e38258

Known limitations

• Same Wi-Fi only. Connecting a desktop client requires the phone and computer on the same network (no relay server yet).
• No automatic updates. You'll see an in-app banner when a new version is out; updating is a manual download.
• Large download (~157 MB). Bundled on-device models account for most of it.

AURA 1.0.416

A fix for overlay windows drifting off-screen on high-density phones, plus a clearer agent trace viewer.

What's new

• Fixed the "Talk to AURA" pill and edge glow rendering off-screen on some phones. A leftover flag meant to hide overlay windows from screen recordings was accidentally the wrong flag — it forced those windows into an old Android compatibility-scaling mode instead. On higher-density screens (tested: Redmi Note 11 Pro Plus) that pushed the pill and edge glow outside the visible screen entirely. The flag is removed; overlays now render at their correct position and size.
• The agent's on-screen trace viewer now shows exactly what the model sees. The "read screen" step in a run trace now displays the same grid image sent to the model, with a zoomable view — useful if you're ever debugging why the agent misread something.
• The pause/control-lock overlay no longer interrupts your taps mid-run unless it's actually about to close.

Install

1. Download aura-1.0.416.apk below.
2. Android will ask you to allow installing from an unknown source — expected for any app not distributed through the Play Store.
3. If you already have AURA installed, this installs over it (same signing key) — no need to uninstall first.

Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer. Includes arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a.

Verify your download

SHA-256  4422CA98F4280A653CE98971BAA6ADE86F892F0BBE0172079D5361105605A91

# Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash aura-1.0.416.apk -Algorithm SHA256
# macOS / Linux
shasum -a 256 aura-1.0.416.apk

AURA 1.0.389

Third public release. The headline is that AURA can now tap apps that used to ignore it completely, and the voice assistant finally knows what is on your screen.

What's new

Taps that actually land

Some apps silently discarded everything AURA tapped. The gesture reported success, the coordinates were right, and nothing happened — for days. Two causes, both fixed:

• AURA now declares itself an accessibility tool, so Android classifies its touches as genuinely assistive instead of as automation to be filtered out.
• When an app still ignores an injected touch, AURA falls back to clicking the element directly through the accessibility layer — a path that emits no touch event at all, so it cannot be filtered.

A tap also now tells the truth. It waits to see whether the app actually reacted, and reports failure when nothing did, instead of claiming success because the system finished drawing the motion.

If you are upgrading: turn AURA's accessibility service off and back on once after installing. Android caches the old service declaration, and the tap fix does not take effect until you do.

The voice assistant knows what the phone is doing

Previously the reasoning half of the voice assistant was blind: it could not tell you what was on screen, offered to start tasks that were already running, and could not resolve "send her a message" against a chat you had open.

It now reads a live view of the phone — the app in the foreground, the screen you are on, whether a task is running, and what AURA just did. It also comments on its own progress at the right moments, in its own words rather than a canned line.

This text goes to the voice model, so what it contains is deliberately limited: notifications carry the app and sender only — never message contents — the browser reports the site and page title but never the full address (query strings routinely carry session tokens), and tool activity records the action attempted, never the result.

Better eyes, and an honest sense of its own limits

• Screen understanding had two readers still parsing an older payload format. Neither crashed; both quietly produced wrong answers, including the loop detector that is supposed to notice AURA repeating itself. Both repaired.
• The numbered boxes AURA draws over your screen are far more readable — thinner outlines, smarter number placement, and numbers that no longer pile up in the same corner or sit over the wrong control.
• Models that cannot see images are no longer sent screenshots every turn. AURA now checks what the model you picked actually supports.
• A run is now bounded by request count and elapsed time, not just tokens — so it can stop cleanly on providers that meter differently, and it says which limit stopped it rather than stalling.

Seeing what AURA did

The in-app run trace was rebuilt: text wraps and is selectable, and a run can be exported as a single JSON file with the screenshots embedded. Two silent bugs surfaced while rebuilding it — trace entries were being cut off mid-record, and saved screenshots were JPEGs wearing a .png name. Both fixed.

Also

• A live prompt marquee on the home screen, showing what you can actually ask
• Reworked screen-edge glow while AURA is working
• Roughly 1,800 lines of an unreachable legacy overlay removed

Known limitations

• Swiggy's bottom navigation bar still cannot be tapped. It is not present in the accessibility tree AURA can read at all, so there is nothing to click. The rest of the app now works.
• No automatic updates. Sideloaded apps never self-update — AURA shows a banner when a new version exists, and you download it here.
• MCP client connections are same-LAN only.
• The download is 159 MB; most of it is on-device AI models and native libraries.

Install

1. Download aura-1.0.389.apk below.
2. Android will ask you to allow installing from an unknown source — expected for any app not distributed through the Play Store.
3. Open AURA and follow onboarding.
4. After onboarding, toggle AURA's accessibility service off and on once (see the tap fix above).

Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer. Includes arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a.

Installs cleanly over 1.0.371 and 1.0.291 — same signing key, nothing to uninstall.

Verify your download:

SHA-256  849e1b985c75b804fbab397357b49172c4e3de2ef73e76a15674d28bfa2ca96a

Get-FileHash aura-1.0.389.apk -Algorithm SHA256      # Windows

shasum -a 256 aura-1.0.389.apk                        # macOS / Linux

Connecting an MCP client

# Pre-warm once - downloads native WebRTC dependencies, can take a minute.
# Do this BEFORE adding AURA to your MCP client, or the client's startup
# timeout fires during the download and the first session looks like a failure.
npx aura-mcp-connect@latest --version

# Pair with the PIN shown in the app
npx aura-mcp-connect pair <PIN>

The bridge runs a shared local daemon at http://127.0.0.1:4816/mcp, so several MCP clients can share one phone link simultaneously.

AURA 1.0.371

Second public release. Two weeks of work since 1.0.291, and the largest change is that AURA can now use a web browser — and that you can always take the phone back from it.

What's new

A real browser, not a fetch call

AURA has a browser plane with actual chrome: tabs, an address bar, cookies and sessions that persist. It can open several pages at once and compare them, extract a whole list in one call, attach a file to an upload, and find/wait for elements instead of guessing. When a site needs you to log in, browser handoff gives you the window, waits, and takes over again afterwards — AURA no longer pretends it can sign in as you.

The human always wins

A single control lock with three holders — you, the agent, the MCP client — and you outrank both. Touch the screen mid-task and the agent stops; a Pause pill shows what's paused and gets you back. You can also pause and resume by voice. A run that gets paused is no longer silently lost, and it is no longer reported as "completed".

Voice: Gemini Live becomes AURA's ears, mouth and character

The Live conversation plane now routes anything substantive to the on-device agent brain and speaks the answer in AURA's own voice, instead of running two disconnected personalities. You can steer a task mid-run — say something different while it's working and it adapts. Spoken requests are screened for banking and card details before the reasoning model ever sees them.

Better eyes

UI-tree extraction was reworked: a proper element budget, visible-bounds filtering, and correct window-root selection, so dialogs and off-screen content are no longer silently dropped. Screen capture now uses the accessibility screenshot path — faster, and the screen-recording indicator no longer stays lit while AURA is idle.

Onboarding and setup

A six-step wizard that walks through restricted settings, the API key, restricted apps, and consent, instead of dropping you into a permissions maze.

Also

• Honest spoken failure when your LLM provider's quota runs out, instead of a silent stall
• Durable timestamped log of everything said on the voice plane, viewable and exportable in-app
• Overlay fix for Redmi/MIUI devices where the assistant bubble never appeared
• Developer-mode ADB passthrough, off by default and armed deliberately

Install

1. Download aura-1.0.371.apk below.
2. Android will ask you to allow installing from an unknown source — expected for any app not distributed through the Play Store.
3. Open AURA and follow onboarding.

Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer. Includes arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a.

Installs cleanly over 1.0.291 — same signing key, nothing to uninstall.

Connecting an MCP client

# Pre-warm once - downloads native WebRTC dependencies, can take a minute.
# Do this BEFORE adding AURA to your MCP client, or the client's startup
# timeout fires during the download and the first session looks like a failure.
npx aura-mcp-connect@latest --version

# Pair with the PIN shown in the app
npx aura-mcp-connect pair <PIN>

The bridge runs a shared local daemon at http://127.0.0.1:4816/mcp, so several MCP clients can share one phone link simultaneously.

Verify your download

SHA-256  0f5048ac3c0f36911caa128cee45fd46f3d32e929f7b9505ebf3dfa2fbb94b46

# Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash aura-1.0.371.apk -Algorithm SHA256
# macOS / Linux
shasum -a 256 aura-1.0.371.apk

Known limitations

• Same network only. Phone and computer must be on the same LAN. Cross-network connectivity needs a TURN relay that is not yet configured.
• No automatic updates. Sideloaded builds don't self-update. The app shows a banner when a newer release exists and links here.
• Large download (~157 MB). Down from ~220 MB — the emulator-only x86_64 architecture was dropped. Still carries on-device perception models and native libraries for two CPU architectures. Per-architecture builds would cut it further.
• This build has not been through a full on-device test pass. Unit tests pass; the browser, voice and capture paths were verified individually during development rather than end-to-end on this exact build. Report anything broken in issues.

Notes

• Signed with the project release key. Future updates use the same key.
• Crash reporting is enabled. Usage analytics record only tool name, duration, and success/failure — never task content, screen content, tool arguments, or tool results.
• The app registers an install/device record (a generated install ID, device model, app version) so the project can see fleet health and ship the update banner and kill switch. This is disclosed in the in-app privacy policy.
• Your LLM API key stays on your phone, in encrypted storage, and goes only to the provider you chose.

AURA 1.0.358

AURA 1.0.358

• Reworked on-screen UI understanding: fairer element budgeting, screen-visibility filtering, and multi-window scanning so dialogs and off-screen content are handled correctly.
• Fixed a bug where the floating assistant overlay could vanish right after appearing when screen-capture permission was requested (an Android system protection was hiding it).
• Fixed a bug where a stalled AI request could hang a run indefinitely instead of failing and recovering.
• Added a wireless ADB companion tool (developer-mode only) for advanced device control workflows.
• Added Restricted Apps settings entries so it's clearer which apps AURA declines to act in (banking, payments, authenticators).
• Various control-lock correctness fixes so AURA reliably yields control back to you and doesn't misattribute your own touches.
• Improved in-app browser handling: one browser window per session, and the assistant now knows what's already open.

SHA-256: d87fcedf0c521142a4a3b55fd97da18190a84e33c5ea8baef3f7a7c8b83cb7a9

Known limitations: same-LAN device connection only for now (no automatic updates yet); use the in-app "Update available" banner or check this releases page periodically.

AURA 1.0.337

AURA 1.0.337

Onboarding overhaul

• New first-run wizard: Welcome → How AURA works (now with an explicit Privacy Policy / Terms consent checkbox) → an Android 13+ "Restricted settings" walkthrough (deep-links straight to your app info page) → permissions → a required Gemini API key step (verifies the key before saving, sets Gemini Live as your default voice mode with automatic fallback to classic voice) → an optional scan for banking/payment apps to keep AURA out of.
• Gemini Live's voice picker now lists the full set of Google's prebuilt voices (30, up from 10).

Privacy Policy & Terms

• Rewritten and kept in sync between the app and the website. Clarifies AURA has no server of its own — everything you send goes straight from your phone to whichever AI provider you configure with your own key, under their terms, not AURA's.

SHA-256: 187e67bc34e5f7aa4e7e148c507d7a8e7a4046536c6f5985407037c0afe03d2a

AURA 1.0.335

Browser control, an overlay fix, and a warmer agent voice.

What's new

• You can now watch AURA browse. Opening a web page shows a live window by default — the agent isn't working invisibly anymore. Tap the minimize button to shrink it to a small bubble without stopping the task; tap the bubble to bring it back full-size. A task only runs fully hidden if it's explicitly asked to run in the background.
• Fix for a floating-bubble visibility bug on some Xiaomi/Redmi phones. On certain MIUI builds the assistant bubble could render into a reserved strip of the bottom bezel that the phone's compositor never actually draws to screen — the app would be working (you'd hear it) but the bubble was invisible. The bubble now accounts for the phone's real system-bar and screen-cutout insets instead of assuming a plain rectangle.
• MCP pairing requests now show as a phone notification with Approve/Deny buttons, so you can approve a new client connection without having the app's MCP screen open.
• The agent looks before it answers. For "what's on screen / read this / check that"-shaped requests, AURA now actually reads the screen before responding instead of assuming a task is done just because the right app opened. Responses are also a bit more conversational.

Install

1. Download aura-1.0.335.apk below.
2. Android will ask you to allow installing from an unknown source — expected for any app not distributed through the Play Store.
3. If you already have AURA installed, this installs over it (same signing key) — no need to uninstall first.

Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer. Includes arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a.

Verify your download

SHA-256  C24822014F3D0112AD647C78E107CF11EB9876EBF5078FAB67D5FE7A926D581A

# Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash aura-1.0.335.apk -Algorithm SHA256
# macOS / Linux
shasum -a 256 aura-1.0.335.apk

Known limitations

• Same network only. Phone and computer must be on the same LAN for the MCP bridge. Cross-network connectivity needs a TURN relay that is not yet configured.
• No automatic updates. Sideloaded builds don't self-update. The app shows a banner when a newer release exists and links here.
• Large download (~155 MB). Carries on-device perception models and native libraries.

Notes

• Signed with the project release key. Future updates use the same key, so they install cleanly over this one without uninstalling.
• Crash reporting is enabled. Usage analytics record only tool name, duration, and success/failure — never task content, screen content, tool arguments, or tool results.

AURA 1.0.291

First public release of the AURA Android app.

Turns a physical Android phone into a Model Context Protocol server over WebRTC — any MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Copilot) drives real hardware peer-to-peer, with no root, no ADB, and no cloud round-trip. Also ships a first-party on-device agent that drives the same tools by voice or text, using the LLM brain of your choice.

Install

1. Download aura-1.0.291.apk below.
2. Android will ask you to allow installing from an unknown source — expected for any app not distributed through the Play Store.
3. Open AURA and follow onboarding. It walks you through the permissions it needs, including the Accessibility service the automation tools depend on.

Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer. Includes arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, and x86_64.

Connecting an MCP client

# Pre-warm once - downloads native WebRTC dependencies, can take a minute.
# Do this BEFORE adding AURA to your MCP client, or the client's startup
# timeout fires during the download and the first session looks like a failure.
npx aura-mcp-connect@latest --version

# Pair with the PIN shown in the app
npx aura-mcp-connect pair <PIN>

The bridge runs a shared local daemon at http://127.0.0.1:4816/mcp, so several MCP clients can share one phone link simultaneously.

Verify your download

SHA-256  DA47B9AB0F2F2481AE186646E4992E5872E22FB2A112EA43B50C8D9997EB02C8

# Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash aura-1.0.291.apk -Algorithm SHA256
# macOS / Linux
shasum -a 256 aura-1.0.291.apk

Known limitations

• Same network only. Phone and computer must be on the same LAN. Cross-network connectivity needs a TURN relay that is not yet configured.
• No automatic updates. Sideloaded builds don't self-update. The app shows a banner when a newer release exists and links here.
• Large download (~220 MB). Universal build carrying on-device perception models and native libraries for three CPU architectures. Per-architecture builds are planned to cut this substantially.

Notes

• Signed with the project release key. Future updates use the same key, so they install cleanly over this one without uninstalling.
• Crash reporting is enabled. Usage analytics record only tool name, duration, and success/failure — never task content, screen content, tool arguments, or tool results.