Apple Messages MCP server
Search and read Apple Messages — chats and decoded text, sending off by default
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4 stars413 downloads/wk
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Apple Messages tools
No tool declarations could be read from the package source. They show once the server is installed.
How Apple Messages compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 92/100
- higher than 90% of 3,470 Web search servers
- GitHub stars
- 4
- more than 75% of 1,786 Web search servers
- Downloads a week
- 413
- more than 82% of 827 Web search servers with a package
Release history: 14 versions in the registry since 2026-09-16, latest 2026-11-03, typically one every 3 days.
Install Apple Messages in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
Runs npx -y @mgcrea/mcp-apple-messages on your machine. Read the scan report first; the gateway never runs local packages.
claude mcp add mcp-apple-messages -- npx -y @mgcrea/mcp-apple-messages
What the publisher says
From the Apple Messages repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
Cupertino
Put your agent to work in your everyday Apple apps.
MCP servers for the Apple apps already on your Mac, and the signed app that grants them their permissions once instead of once each — for any agent that speaks MCP, not for one host.
Unofficial. Not affiliated with Apple. These drive the apps that are already on your Mac.
In use
Look at how I write in my work inbox, then draft this reply in the same voice.
Pull together everything about the Atlas launch from my mail, my notes and my calendar. What do I
still owe people?
Turn the action items from yesterday's client thread into reminders, due Friday.
Every one of those carries a constraint — an account, a date bound, a filter. That is the part the naive osascript path answers in 74 seconds or answers wrongly, and the reason a server earns its place: it holds what the model would otherwise re-derive every session. The measurements are in docs/verify.md; what the alternatives cost is in docs/alternatives.md.
The last one needs the write gate open on Reminders. Writes are off per surface until you turn them on, and the toggle decides whether the mutating tools are registered at all — an agent with writes off cannot see that they exist.
Surfaces
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Apple Messages: common questions
- Is Apple Messages MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (92/100). Read the Apple Messages safety report
- How do I install Apple Messages?
- It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
- Does Apple Messages need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 3 settings from the environment.
- Is Apple Messages maintained?
- The last commit was 32 days ago (2026-10-02). The latest release is v1.36.2.
- What can I use instead of Apple Messages?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Apple Contacts MCP server, Arxiv MCP server and Pubmed MCP server.
- How does Apple Messages compare with other Web search MCP servers?
- safety score 92/100 (higher than 90% of 3,470 Web search servers); github stars 4 (more than 75% of 1,786 Web search servers); downloads a week 413 (more than 82% of 827 Web search servers with a package). Full comparison.
Alternatives to Apple Messages
Same job from other publishers: the closest match first, then the best rated.
- Apple ContactsInspect and search Apple Contacts on macOS, and resolve a contact into a message-ready recipient.not reviewedEstablishedA
- ArxivSearch arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.not reviewedWidely usedA
- PubmedSearch PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.not reviewedEstablishedA
- MisakanetFailure-memory layer for coding agents: search evidence-rated failure lessons by error text.not reviewedEstablishedA
- Papersgpt For ZoteroProfessional AI research tool for Zotero: chat with PDFs, whole-library search, Literature Radar, AutoPilot. 30+ LLMs or local models; built-in MCP server.not reviewedEstablishedB
