😎 Awesome Minis 
A curated collection of real-world Minis use cases, workflows, and creative scenarios — contributed by the community.
Minis is a private, on-device AI agent across iOS and Android. It brings leading models into a native mobile experience, with a full Linux shell (Alpine Linux), browser automation, extensible skills, persistent memory, and deep device integrations. This repository collects the best ways people are actually using it.
📋 Table of Contents
- English Translations
- Health & Wellness
- Productivity & Automation
- Data & Research
- Creative & Content
- Finance & Tracking
- Smart Home & IoT
- Developer Tools
- Contributing
🏥 Health & Wellness
| Name | Description | By | Skills Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Watch Heart Health Monitor | Analyze heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, and ECG data from HealthKit to detect early warning signs and generate a risk report | OpenMinis | cardiac-health-monitor |
| Photo a Coffee → Auto-Log Caffeine | Take a photo of your coffee, Minis identifies it and automatically logs the caffeine intake to Apple Health | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| Photo Every Meal → Auto-Log Nutrition | Snap a photo of each meal — Minis identifies dishes, estimates calories/protein/carbs, and logs it all to Apple Health | @infinite_Game_ | Built-in |
| Photo + HealthKit: "How Much Did I Walk That Night?" | Find a vacation photo by description, then auto cross-reference HealthKit steps/distance for that exact date and time window — chaining Photos, memory, and HealthKit in one pass | MacStories (Federico Viticci) | Built-in |
⚡ Productivity & Automation
| Name | Description | By | Skills Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smart Daily Briefing | Every morning: pull calendar events, weather, news headlines, and Reminders into a single spoken briefing | OpenMinis | Built-in |
| X Timeline Voice Alarm | Replace your morning alarm — Shortcuts auto-fetches your X Timeline, summarizes it, generates TTS audio, and plays it to wake you up | @wsvn53 | twitter-x-hub, doubao-tts |
| Auto-Create Calendar from Shared Content | Share any content with a time and place to Minis via the iOS Share Sheet — it instantly creates the calendar event | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| Daily Briefing Auto-Push to WeChat | Schedule Minis on iPad to fetch weather + news daily and auto-push to WeChat via openilink-hub | meng nimen | Built-in + openilink-hub |
| Push Minis Results to WeChat | Use openilink-hub middleware to push any Minis output (reports, alerts, summaries) to WeChat | meng nimen | Built-in + openilink-hub |
| Group Messages → Auto-Extract to Reminders | Pull Telegram group messages, auto-extract bugs and tasks, deduplicate, and write to Apple Reminders | @wsvn53 | tg-hub, Built-in |
| Web Page → Apple Notes | Send any URL to Minis — it fetches, summarizes, and saves structured notes directly to Apple Notes | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| Mount Obsidian Vault as a Minis Knowledge Workspace | Mount your Obsidian vault into Minis, then summarize, clean up, research, and write Markdown notes back into the vault | Open Minis community | Built-in |
| Batch Set Complex Alarms | Describe your entire alarm schedule in one message — Minis creates all of them at once | appinn | Built-in |
| Convert Notes & Ideas into Dida Tasks | Dump raw notes or brain dumps to Minis — it extracts and polishes them into tasks and writes them to Dida (TickTick) | SI7gen1 | Custom (Dida API) |
| Schedule Minis Tasks via iOS Shortcuts | Use iOS Shortcuts automations to trigger Minis tasks on a schedule — no manual app launch needed | Community | iOS Shortcuts |
| Edit Clash Config Without Touching YAML | Drop your Clash config into Minis, say what you want changed — it reads, edits, and outputs a new file with a change summary. Zero YAML editing | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| Remote Control Home Phone to Run Tasks | Remotely trigger Minis tasks on your home phone/iPad from anywhere via SSH or network | Hazy | Built-in (SSH) |
| Course Creation Assistant | Product managers use Minis to build courses end-to-end: design, code, and transcripts | @sawyer-wang | project-case-builder, video-script-writer |
| Taobao Store Management | Built a complete Taobao toolkit from scratch via SSH — order tracking, price comparison, cart management, buyer chat — zero code knowledge required | Da weiwei | Built-in (SSH + shell) |
| WeRead AI Reading Companion | Connect your WeRead account — browse bookshelf, export highlights, analyze reading habits, and get personalized book recommendations in one conversation | 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 | External weread-skills |
| Custom Scheduled Notification with Article Summary | Fetch fresh content, then fire a real iOS notification with a custom title and summary body via the native Notification framework — great for pinging you when a long task finishes | MacStories (Federico Viticci) | Built-in |
| Location-Aware Detailed Weather Forecast | Grab your live location and pull a detailed native Apple Weather forecast — hourly table, UV index, feels-like temps, and a practical human-readable takeaway | MacStories (Federico Viticci) | Built-in |
🔬 Data & Research
| Name | Description | By | Skills Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automated Paywall Bypass Article Reader | Automatically rewrite paywalled article URLs to public archive links and read full content inside the chat | oneasai | Built-in (browser) |
| Fetch HK News & Generate Chinese HTML Digest | Fetch Hong Kong news articles, translate and summarize in Chinese, output as a formatted HTML digest | meng nimen | Built-in (browser) |
| City Commercial Market Research Report | One sentence → Minis searches JLL/Winshang/DTZ, writes analysis scripts, and generates a full market report with charts | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| Tweet Fact-Check: Verify Health Claims | Paste any tweet link → Minis fetches the content and cross-checks claims against medical literature, outputs a structured verdict table | @wsvn53 | twitter-x-hub |
| Part-of-Speech Tagging with Apple NLP | Fetch a web article, scrape it to Markdown, then use Apple's on-device Natural Language framework to color-tag every word by part of speech in an interactive HTML report | MacStories (Federico Viticci) | Built-in |
| MacBook Neo Purchase Decision | One prompt → benchmark ladder (single/multi-core vs all MacBook models), deal-breaker analysis, China subsidy price breakdown, and an AI-generated shareable infographic | OpenMinis | Built-in, nano-banana-2 |
| Bilibili Content Analyzer | Extract full subtitles, metadata, search related videos & hot rankings from any Bilibili video | @hanzhe-one | bilibili-hub |
🎨 Creative & Content
| Name | Description | By | Skills Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search Torrents & Manage qBittorrent Downloads | One sentence → Minis searches 7 torrent sites, picks the best version, extracts magnet link, adds to qBittorrent remotely, reports download status | @wsvn53 | exa-search |
| Download X/Twitter Videos | Paste an X video link — Minis auto-installs yt-dlp, downloads video+audio streams, merges with ffmpeg, auto-debugs errors | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| Local Video Compression with ffmpeg | Drop a 4K video — Minis detects codec/bitrate, picks optimal H.265 settings, compresses locally. 32 MB → 13.5 MB, 58% smaller, no quality loss | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| One-Click PPT Generator | Turn a script or outline into a Jobs-style minimal HTML presentation in seconds | OpenMinis | ppt-generator |
| End-to-End Automated Video Production | Research → script → TTS voiceover → image search → ffmpeg edit → upload to Bilibili, all in one session (200+ tool calls) | @wsvn53 | bilibili-hub, doubao-tts, ffmpeg |
| TikTok Song → YouTube Music Playlist | Screenshot TikTok comments with song names, Minis OCRs them and batch-adds all songs to your YouTube Music playlist | @wsvn53 | ytmusic-hub |
| Spotify Voice Control | Search songs, skip tracks, and control Spotify playback with a single sentence — no app needed | @wsvn53 | spotify-hub |
| Read Article Then Auto-Generate Audio | After summarizing an article, automatically generate a matching audio version with doubao-tts and auto-play it | oneasai | doubao-tts |
| Local Lightweight TTS on Old iPhone | Install the lightweight edge-tts package through the Minis shell; no API key is required, but network access is needed | Xiaoyu Huang | External edge-tts package |
| AI Personal Color Analysis | Upload a selfie — Minis determines your 12-season color type and generates a professional analysis report with recommendations for outfits, makeup, hairstyles, and accessories | 采菇凉滴小蘑菇 | personal-color-analysis |
| Interactive Vacation Photo Map with MapKit | Turn scattered vacation photos into a single interactive HTML map artifact — photo pins on real locations via MapKit JS, rendered natively in WKWebView, tappable into Apple Maps | MacStories (Federico Viticci) | Built-in |
| Music Library Deep Research | Ask about your Apple Music library the way you'd ask a friend — Minis inspects it via the native Media framework and reasons through misfiled B-sides and partial EPs | MacStories (Federico Viticci) | Built-in |
💰 Finance & Tracking
| Name | Description | By | Skills Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo a Receipt → Auto-Log Expense | Snap a receipt photo — Minis uses Apple Vision to OCR it, extracts merchant/amount/items, auto-categorizes and logs the expense | Zigzag | Built-in (Vision) |
| Stock Technical Analysis with Charts | Share a stock ticker — Minis scrapes Futu/Yahoo Finance/TradingView, generates K-line + MACD + RSI charts and a full technical analysis report | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
🏠 Smart Home & IoT
| Name | Description | By | Skills Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scan Nearby Bluetooth LE Devices | Ask what's around you — Minis scans real nearby Bluetooth LE devices via the native framework and returns a ranked signal-strength table, no separate scanner app needed | MacStories (Federico Viticci) | Built-in |
👨💻 Developer Tools
| Name | Description | By | Skills Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rescue a Crashed OpenClaw via SSH | OpenClaw crashed after an update? SSH in from your iPhone, auto-diagnose and restart the service — no laptop needed | @wsvn53 | Built-in (SSH) |
| Remote Dev & Architecture Diagram Generation | SSH into a remote server, scan Swift source files, extract 3-layer architecture, generate diagram via Nano Banana — 2 min, zero intervention | @wsvn53 | Built-in (SSH) |
| Managing Oracle Free-Tier Servers | Manage multiple Oracle free-tier servers using natural language—check disk, memory, and services; run commands | 采菇凉滴小蘑菇 | Built-in (SSH) |
🧩 Skills
The use cases above leverage Minis Skills — reusable instruction sets that extend what Minis can do. Browse the official skill registry:
Want to create your own skill? Use the built-in skill-creator skill for guided instructions.
🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions from the community! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting.
Quick summary:
- Each use case lives in its own Markdown file under the appropriate
cases/subfolder - Use the case template to structure your submission
- Only submit use cases you have personally tested and verified
- Open a Pull Request — one use case per PR is preferred
📜 License
CC0 1.0 Universal — Public Domain. Use freely, no attribution required.
Made with ❤️ by the OpenMinis community