A curated collection of real-world Minis use cases, workflows, and creative scenarios β contributed by the community.
Minis is an AI-powered assistant running on iOS with a full Linux shell (Alpine Linux), native Apple framework integrations (HealthKit, Calendar, Reminders, HomeKit, etc.), and a rich skill ecosystem. This repository collects the best ways people are actually using it.
- Health & Wellness
- Productivity & Automation
- Data & Research
- Creative & Content
- Finance & Tracking
- Developer Tools
- Contributing
| 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 β 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 β Auto-Log Nutrition | Snap a photo of each meal β Minis identifies dishes, estimates calories/protein/carbs, and logs it all to Apple Health | @infinite_Game_ | Built-in |
| 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 β 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 β 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 β 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 β Apple Notes | Send any URL to Minis β it fetches, summarizes, and saves structured notes directly to Apple Notes | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| Batch Set Complex Alarms | Describe your entire alarm schedule in one message β Minis creates all of them at once | appinn | Built-in |
| Convert Notes & Ideas into Dida Tasks | Dump raw notes or brain dumps to Minis β 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 β 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 β 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 | ζ¦θ§ | Built-in (SSH) |
| Taobao Store Management | Built a complete Taobao toolkit from scratch via SSH β order tracking, price comparison, cart management, buyer chat β zero code knowledge required | Da weiwei | Built-in (SSH + shell) |
| 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 β Minis searches JLL/Winshang/DTZ, writes analysis scripts, and generates a full market report with charts | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| Name | Description | By | Skills Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search Torrents & Manage qBittorrent Downloads | One sentence β 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 β 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 β Minis detects codec/bitrate, picks optimal H.265 settings, compresses locally. 32 MB β 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 β script β TTS voiceover β image search β ffmpeg edit β upload to Bilibili, all in one session (200+ tool calls) | @wsvn53 | bilibili-hub, doubao-tts, ffmpeg |
| TikTok Song β 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 β 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 edge-tts via Minis shell for free, offline TTS β works even on a 64GB iPhone 8 Plus | ε°ζΈ ι» | edge-tts (shell) |
| Name | Description | By | Skills Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo a Receipt β Auto-Log Expense | Snap a receipt photo β 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 β Minis scrapes Futu/Yahoo Finance/TradingView, generates K-line + MACD + RSI charts and a full technical analysis report | @wsvn53 | Built-in |
| 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 β 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 β 2 min, zero intervention | @wsvn53 | Built-in (SSH) |
| Managing Oracle Free-Tier Servers | Manage multiple Oracle free-tier servers with natural language β check disk, memory, services, run commands | ιθεζ»΄ε°θθ | Built-in (SSH) |
The use cases above leverage Minis Skills β 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.
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 β one use case per PR is preferred
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