Best MCP Servers for Mobile Developers in 2026

Mobile development introduces problems that web developers rarely face. You are building for two platforms with different design conventions. Your backend API needs to handle offline sync, push notifications, and authentication flows that involve native SDKs. Designs need to work on screens ranging from 4 inches to tablets. Crashes happen on devices you do not own, running OS versions you cannot test locally. MCP servers help by connecting your AI coding assistant to the tools that cover these mobile-specific challenges -- your backend, your designs, your error tracking, and your repository.

The context switching tax is especially high for mobile developers. You have your IDE (Xcode, Android Studio, or VS Code for React Native), the Supabase dashboard for backend operations, Figma for design specs, the GitHub web UI for PRs, and Sentry for crash reports. Each tool lives in its own window, and each switch breaks your flow. MCP servers bring these tools into your coding conversation, so you can interact with all of them without leaving your editor.

Here are the five MCP servers that matter most for mobile development.

Supabase MCP -- The Mobile Backend in Your Editor

Author: Supabase | Tools: 25 | Requires: Supabase access token

Most modern mobile apps use Supabase or a similar backend-as-a-service for authentication, database, storage, and real-time subscriptions. Supabase MCP connects your AI assistant to your actual Supabase project, so it can read your schema, run queries, manage RLS policies, and deploy edge functions -- all from your editor. For mobile developers, this means your assistant understands your real backend when writing client-side code.

What It Does

Twenty-five tools covering the full Supabase platform: listing tables, running SQL, applying migrations, managing branches, deploying edge functions, checking logs, and running security advisors. Your assistant sees your actual database schema, not a generic example.

How It Helps in Practice

You are building the offline sync logic for your React Native app. The assistant needs to understand your exact table structure, your RLS policies (which determine what data each user can access), and any Postgres functions you have set up for conflict resolution. With Supabase MCP, it reads all of this directly and writes client-side code that matches your real backend.

Or you need a new API endpoint. Instead of opening the Supabase dashboard, creating an edge function, deploying it, and then writing the client code to call it, your assistant creates the edge function, deploys it via Supabase MCP, and writes the corresponding fetch call in your mobile app -- in a single conversation.

For mobile-specific patterns like push notification token storage: your assistant can create a push_tokens table with the right schema, add RLS policies so users can only manage their own tokens, and write the React Native code to register and store tokens on app launch.

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "supabase": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@supabase/mcp-server-supabase"],
      "env": {
        "SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your-access-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Generate your access token from the Supabase dashboard under Account Settings.

GitHub MCP -- Repository Management Across Platforms

Author: Anthropic | Tools: 20 | Requires: GitHub personal access token

Mobile projects often involve multiple repositories or a monorepo with platform-specific directories. You might have separate repos for the iOS app, the Android app, and the shared React Native code, or a single repo with /ios, /android, and /src directories. GitHub MCP gives your assistant full access to your repositories for issue tracking, PR review, and code navigation -- critical when you are coordinating changes across platforms.

What It Does

Twenty tools for GitHub: reading repository contents, managing issues and pull requests, creating branches, inspecting diffs, and working with releases. Your assistant can navigate the file structure of any repository you have access to, read specific files, and understand the full context of a pull request.

How It Helps in Practice

A bug report comes in: "the app crashes on Android 14 when opening the camera." Your assistant searches your GitHub issues for similar reports, reads the crash description, looks at the relevant Android-specific code in your repository, and identifies potential causes. If it is a known issue with a specific Android API level, it can search for related issues in the libraries you depend on.

For release management, GitHub MCP is essential. Mobile releases are more complex than web deploys -- you need to coordinate iOS and Android builds, update version numbers in multiple config files, draft release notes, and tag the release. Your assistant can list all PRs merged since the last release, draft changelog entries, and create the release tag.

Cross-platform code review is another strong use case. A PR touches both the shared React Native code and the native iOS bridge module. Your assistant reads the full diff, understands the changes on both sides, and identifies potential inconsistencies between the JavaScript and native implementations.

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "ghp_your-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Use a token with access to all your mobile project repositories.

Figma MCP -- Design Fidelity on Small Screens

Author: Community | Tools: 8 | Requires: Figma access token

Mobile design has constraints that web design does not. Every pixel matters more on a 6-inch screen. Touch targets need to be at least 44 points. Platform-specific patterns (bottom sheets on iOS, material design on Android) need to be respected. Figma MCP connects your assistant to your Figma files so it can read design specs, extract spacing values, check typography scales, and understand the intended layout -- without you eyeballing the designs and translating them to code by hand.

What It Does

Eight tools for Figma access: reading file structures, inspecting components and their properties, extracting design tokens (colors, typography, spacing), and reading auto-layout settings. Your assistant can navigate your design file, read the exact specifications for any element, and understand how components relate to each other.

How It Helps in Practice

Your designer hands you a Figma file with the new profile screen. On a web project, you might get away with approximate spacing. On mobile, the difference between 12px and 16px padding is noticeable, and a misaligned text label looks wrong on a small screen. Your assistant reads the exact values from Figma -- the padding, the font sizes, the line heights, the border radii -- and writes the styles with precision.

For components that behave differently on iOS and Android, Figma MCP helps your assistant understand the design intent. If the designer created both a material-style and cupertino-style version of a button, the assistant reads both variants and writes the appropriate platform-conditional code.

Design tokens are particularly valuable for mobile. Your assistant can extract the full color palette, typography scale, and spacing system from Figma and generate a theme file that your app references consistently -- whether you are using React Native's StyleSheet, NativeWind, or platform-native styling.

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "figma": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "figma-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FIGMA_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your-figma-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Generate your access token from Figma under Account Settings.

Playwright MCP -- Testing Web Views and Responsive Layouts

Author: Microsoft | Tools: 20 | Setup: Zero-config (npx)

Mobile apps are not purely native anymore. Many use web views for content rendering, in-app browsers for OAuth flows, or responsive web pages embedded in native shells. Playwright MCP gives your assistant control over a real browser, which is useful for testing these web-based components, verifying your responsive web companion site, and debugging OAuth callback flows.

What It Does

Twenty tools for browser automation: navigating URLs, interacting with page elements, capturing screenshots, reading accessibility snapshots, resizing viewports, and evaluating JavaScript. Your assistant can simulate mobile viewport sizes, test touch-like interactions, and verify how web content renders at different screen widths.

How It Helps in Practice

Your app uses a web view to display help articles. You need to verify that these pages render correctly at mobile viewport widths and that the navigation works within the web view context. Your assistant opens the URL in Playwright, resizes the viewport to common phone and tablet sizes, takes screenshots at each breakpoint, and reports any layout issues -- text overflow, broken images, buttons too small for touch targets.

For OAuth flows, Playwright MCP is invaluable. Mobile OAuth often involves opening a web view, redirecting to the provider's login page, and then redirecting back to your app via a deep link or custom scheme. Your assistant can navigate through this flow in a browser, verify that each redirect works, and check that the callback URL receives the expected parameters.

If your project includes a responsive web version alongside the mobile app, Playwright MCP helps you test both. Your assistant can compare the mobile web layout against your native app designs and flag inconsistencies.

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "playwright": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@playwright/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

No API keys needed. It runs locally with a browser instance.

Sentry MCP -- Crash Reports with Full Context

Author: Sentry | Tools: 8 | Requires: Sentry auth token

Mobile crash reports are more complex than web error logs. They involve device-specific information (OS version, device model, available memory), native stack traces mixed with JavaScript frames (in React Native), and crash scenarios that you cannot reproduce on your development device. Sentry MCP connects your assistant to your Sentry project so it can read crash data, understand the context around each error, and help you fix issues faster.

What It Does

Eight tools for Sentry: querying issues by project, reading error details and stack traces, checking event frequency and affected user counts, and inspecting performance data. Your assistant can pull the full context of a crash -- the stack trace, the device information, the breadcrumbs leading up to the crash, and how many users are affected.

How It Helps in Practice

Your app has a crash that only happens on Samsung devices running Android 13. Your assistant queries Sentry, filters for that device and OS combination, reads the stack trace, and identifies the native module that is failing. It then checks your code for the relevant native bridge implementation and suggests a fix that handles the platform-specific edge case.

For React Native apps, crashes often show both JavaScript and native frames in the stack trace. Your assistant reads the full trace, separates the JavaScript error from the native crash, and pinpoints where the error originated -- whether it is in your JavaScript code, a native module, or a third-party library.

Before submitting a new build to the App Store or Play Store, you can ask your assistant to check Sentry for unresolved crashes in the current release. It queries by release version, reports the top issues by affected user count, and helps you prioritize which fixes to include in the update.

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sentry": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "sentry-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN": "sntrys_your-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Create your auth token from Sentry under Developer Settings > Auth Tokens.

Combining Everything -- The Mobile Developer Workflow

These servers cover the full mobile development cycle:

1. Design: Figma MCP reads design specs with exact values for mobile screens.
2. Backend: Supabase MCP manages the database, auth, and API layer your app depends on.
3. Code: GitHub MCP handles version control, cross-platform PRs, and release management.
4. Testing: Playwright MCP verifies web views, OAuth flows, and responsive layouts.
5. Monitoring: Sentry MCP provides crash context for device-specific issues.

A practical workflow: a user reports a crash via an app store review. You ask your assistant to search Sentry for the relevant crash (via Sentry MCP), read the stack trace, check the related source code in GitHub (via GitHub MCP), identify that the crash happens when the backend returns an unexpected null (which it verifies by querying Supabase MCP), and draft the fix. Then it checks the Figma design to make sure the error state is handled in the UI. That is five tool switches reduced to one conversation.

Getting Started

Choose the servers that match your biggest pain points:

• Constantly switching to the Supabase dashboard? Supabase MCP brings the backend into your editor.
• Eyeballing Figma specs for mobile layouts? Figma MCP extracts exact values.
• Debugging crashes on devices you do not have? Sentry MCP provides the context you need.
• Coordinating changes across iOS and Android? GitHub MCP streamlines cross-platform collaboration.
• Testing web views and OAuth flows? Playwright MCP handles browser-based testing.

For a pre-configured setup, check out the Mobile Developer Stack on stackmcp.dev. It includes the full configuration for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other supported clients.