Automating Snapchat means using an AI agent to handle repetitive tasks like uploading content, posting, replying to messages, or checking your account.
You can do this directly from your own Android phone using mobilerun AI. The agent interacts with Snapchat by tapping, swiping, and typing on your phone, just like a person would.
Since Snapchat does not provide a public API for many of these actions, using an agent that operates the app directly is one way to automate them.
Here’s how to set it up step by step.
How this works (tl;dr)
mobilerun drives a real phone. To let it drive your phone, you install a small companion app called the mobilerun Portal on your device. The Portal is what lets mobilerun see the screen and perform taps and swipes. Once your phone is connected to your mobilerun account in the cloud, you just chat with the agent in plain English, tell it what to do on Snapchat, and it does it. You can even schedule it to run on its own every day.
No rooting, no coding, no reverse-engineering Snapchat. The agent uses the app like you would.
Step 1: Download the mobilerun Portal APK
The Portal app is open source and available on GitHub. On your phone's browser, go to the droidrun/mobilerun-portal repository:
- go to github.com/droidrun/mobilerun
- Head to the Releases section and download the latest APK file directly onto your phone.
Because this is installed outside the Play Store, Android will ask you to allow installs from your browser (or file manager). Go into the prompt or into Settings → Apps → Special access → Install unknown apps, enable it for the app you're downloading with, then open the APK and tap Install.
Step 2: Grant the Portal its permissions
When you first open the mobilerun Portal, it will ask for a couple of permissions it needs to actually operate your phone most importantly Accessibility access, and usually the ability to draw over other apps.
This is the part that lets the agent "see" the screen and tap the right buttons, so it's essential. Follow the in-app prompts, flip the toggles on in Android's settings when asked, and come back to the Portal. It'll confirm once everything it needs is enabled.
Step 3: Connect your phone to your mobilerun cloud account
Now link the device to your account so you can send it commands from anywhere.
- Create or sign in to your mobilerun account (at cloud.mobilerun.ai).
- In the Portal app, connect/pair the device with your account typically by signing in or entering the pairing details the dashboard gives you.
- Once paired, your personal phone shows up as a connected device in your mobile run dashboard. That's it, your phone is now a device the agent can control, while it stays in your hand or on your desk.
Step 4: Make sure Snapchat is ready
Since the agent uses the real app, just make sure Snapchat is installed and logged in on your phone with the account you want to automate. Whatever the agent needs to reach, the camera, your friends list, your streaks should be a normal, logged-in Snapchat session. The agent will navigate it exactly as you do.
Step 5: Give the agent a command in plain English
With everything connected, you don't script anything. You open the mobilerun agent and describe what you want, the way you'd text an assistant.
For example, to keep streaks alive:
"Open Snapchat, go to my Chats, and send a snap to everyone I currently have a streak with. Use the front camera, take a quick photo, and send it to all my streak friends."
Or to post a story:
"Open Snapchat, take a photo with the rear camera, add the caption 'Open today till 9pm', and post it to My Story."
The agent reads the screen, opens Snapchat, and works through the steps like opening the camera, capturing, selecting recipients, and sending, tapping and swiping like a real user.
Because you're chatting with it, you can refine as you go: change the caption, tell it to only snap specific friends, or have it confirm with you before posting publicly.
Step 6: Put it on a schedule (the cron job)
The real payoff is not running it manually, it's letting it run itself. Ask the agent to set up a cron job, a recurring schedule, so your Snapchat task fires automatically at the time you want. For daily streaks, you might say:
"Every day at 9 AM, run my Snapchat streak task and send a snap to all my streak friends."
Pick whatever cadence suits you like once a day for streaks, a few times a day for stories, whatever your goal is. From then on the agent wakes up on schedule, opens Snapchat on your phone, does the job, and stops. Your streaks stay alive even on the days you forget.
A note on the first run vs. later runs
Expect the first run to be a little slower and to use more credits. The initial time, the agent is working the task out from scratch where the camera button is, how the send-to screen is laid out, which friends count as streaks.
After that, it gets efficient. Once it's figured the task out, mobilerun stores the skill, so future runs just replay a routine it already knows instead of solving it fresh each time. The upfront run is the investment; the daily runs after that are quick and cheap.
A few practical tips
Keep the phone charged and online if you're relying on scheduled runs, it's still a real device doing real work. Automate responsibly and within Snapchat's terms; think of this as saving yourself the repetitive taps, not spamming. And start simple: get one task (like streaks) working reliably before layering on stories, replies, or more complex flows.
Putting it together
Automating Snapchat on your own phone comes down to a short setup: grab the mobilerun Portal APK from the GitHub releases page, install it and grant Accessibility permission, connect the phone to your mobilerun cloud account, make sure Snapchat is logged in, then tell the agent in plain English what to do and schedule it with a cron job. The first run teaches the agent the task; every run after that, it quietly keeps your snaps going, streaks intact, stories posted because it's using Snapchat exactly the way you would.
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