Visual Tap Automation: Repeat

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About this app

Repeat replays the taps, swipes and text entry you place yourself, on the apps you already use.

Most automation tools ask you to read a script. Repeat asks you to point. Open the app you want to automate, swipe out Repeat's handle, and drop numbered markers straight onto the live screen in front of you. What you see while you build is exactly what the workflow will act on.

How it works
1. Open the app you want to automate. Repeat waits on a small handle at the edge of the screen.
2. Tap Add and place a numbered action where you want it to happen.
3. Choose what it does - tap, swipe, long press, type, back, home, recents or wait - and how long to pause afterwards.
4. Press Play to try it there and then, or Save to keep it.

What you can build
• Taps, double taps and long presses
• Swipes, in any direction or along a custom path
• Text entry, by setting the field or by pasting
• Back, Home, Recents and Notifications
• Waits, down to the millisecond
• A repeat count for the whole list, or until you stop it

Made to be read later
Every workflow is a numbered list you can reopen, reorder and edit. Insert a step in the middle without rebuilding the rest. Every run is recorded action by action, so when something does not work you can see which step stopped and why, and retry, skip or stop at the moment it happens.

Nothing leaves your device
Repeat has no account, no analytics and no advertising. Workflows and run history live in a private database on your phone. Automatic backup is off, so nothing is copied to the cloud. Export is the only way anything leaves, and you choose what it contains.

Repeat never captures your screen
Actions are placed on a transparent layer drawn over the live app. Repeat draws on that layer; it does not read from it. It holds no screen-capture permission and never asks for one, so it cannot take a screenshot or record your display.

About the permissions
• Accessibility service - performs the taps, swipes and text entry in your workflows. It acts only while a workflow you started is running. It reads the package name of the app in front, so a workflow can warn you when you are not in the app it was built against, and the focused field when a text action runs. Nothing about your screens is stored or sent anywhere.
• Display over other apps - draws the toolbar and the markers. A window drawn on top of an app cannot read anything from it.
• Installed apps query - names and shows the icon of the app a workflow was built against. Scoped to apps with a launcher icon, which is the set a workflow could have been built on.

What Repeat will not do
It does not run anything on a schedule and will not act unless you start it. It cannot type into apps that draw their own text surface, such as many games and most password fields. And a workflow is a set of positions against a screen that looked a certain way when you built it - when an app changes its layout, the workflow needs editing. Repeat tells you when a run stopped early rather than reporting that it finished.

You are responsible for what your workflows do. Automating another service may breach that service's own terms.

What’s new

• A six-step walkthrough the first time you open Repeat, showing the whole loop: add an action, place it, minimise, move your app on, repeat
• A How it works button on the home screen and in the create sheet, so you can reopen it whenever you are stuck
• Share Repeat, and settings, moved into the header
• The navigation bar no longer appears over the app