The Apple MCP server provides a unified interface to interact with native Apple apps and services:
- Contacts: Search and retrieve contacts
- Notes: Search, list, and create notes
- Messages: Send, read, schedule, and check unread messages
- Mail: Read unread emails, search emails, send emails with attachments, list mailboxes
- Reminders: Search, create, list, and open reminders
- Web Search: Search the web using DuckDuckGo and retrieve content
- Calendar: Search, create, open, and list calendar events
- Maps: Search locations, save favorites, get directions, manage guides, and add places to guides
Enables interaction with native Apple applications and services, providing access to Messages, Notes, Contacts, Mail, Reminders, and Calendar for sending messages, reading/searching notes, managing contacts, sending/scheduling emails, creating reminders, and managing calendar events.
Mentioned as a planned future feature to search and open music in Apple Music app.
Enables web search functionality using DuckDuckGo to retrieve and process content from search results.
Apple MCP tools
This is a collection of apple-native tools for the MCP protocol.
Here's a step-by-step video about how to set this up, with a demo. - https://x.com/DhravyaShah/status/1892694077679763671
Quick install
To install Apple MCP for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
... and for cursor, you can do:
Features
- Messages:
- Send messages using the Apple Messages app
- Read out messages
- Notes:
- List notes
- Search & read notes in Apple Notes app
- Contacts:
- Search contacts for sending messages
- Emails:
- Send emails with multiple recipients (to, cc, bcc) and file attachments
- Search emails with custom queries, mailbox selection, and result limits
- Schedule emails for future delivery
- List and manage scheduled emails
- Check unread email counts globally or per mailbox
- Reminders:
- List all reminders and reminder lists
- Search for reminders by text
- Create new reminders with optional due dates and notes
- Open the Reminders app to view specific reminders
- Calendar:
- Search calendar events with customizable date ranges
- List upcoming events
- Create new calendar events with details like title, location, and notes
- Open calendar events in the Calendar app
- Web Search:
- Search the web using DuckDuckGo
- Retrieve and process content from search results
- Maps:
- Search for locations and addresses
- Save locations to favorites
- Get directions between locations
- Drop pins on the map
- Create and list guides
- Add places to guides
- TODO: Search and open photos in Apple Photos app
- TODO: Search and open music in Apple Music app
You can also daisy-chain commands to create a workflow. Like: "can you please read the note about people i met in the conference, find their contacts and emails, and send them a message saying thank you for the time."
(it works!)
Manual installation
You just need bun, install with brew install oven-sh/bun/bun
Now, edit your claude_desktop_config.json
with this:
Usage
Now, ask Claude to use the apple-mcp
tool.
Local Development
enjoy!
local-only server
The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.
A collection of tools that enables Claude AI and Cursor to access native macOS applications such as Messages, Notes, Contacts, Emails, Reminders, Calendar, and Maps through the Model Context Protocol.
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