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These are the questions people ask while deciding whether Warmr is right for them: is it safe, how it compares to the alternatives, what it costs, and what you actually need to run it. If you are looking for step-by-step setup instead, start with the Quickstart. For billing, data privacy, and reliability questions, see the additional FAQ. For anything not covered here, reach out at hi@warmr.so.
Warmr drives a real iPhone you own with real on-screen taps on your own accounts — the same actions you’d take by hand, at a human pace. There are no API calls, no emulators, and no headless browsers. It reads the screen from real screenshots (computer vision) rather than injecting into the app, and it wraps every post in genuine ramp activity so posting happens inside a real, active session rather than cold. Ramp actions run in randomized order and timing to stay human-paced rather than robotic.The honest part: no tool can guarantee reach or follower outcomes, and anyone who promises that is not being straight with you. Warmr controls execution on the device: it performs the actions you schedule, at the pace you set, and logs each one. You control your content, your posting cadence, and your network setup. See How ramp works.
Most of the field (the GeeLark and TikMatrix style of tool) runs Android cloud phones: rented, billed per minute, with an emulated device identity. Warmr is the opposite: real iPhones you own, on-device, no jailbreak, no emulator, and no unofficial API. iPhone hardware has consistently outperformed Android racks on reach, and cloud phones carry fingerprints that real devices do not.Compared to the other options:
  • Rented done-for-you racks run $2,000+/mo and own the hardware for you, which also means they hold your accounts. Warmr keeps everything on devices you own.
  • Unofficial-API tools operate against every platform’s terms of service. Warmr does not use them; it drives the real app on a device you own.
  • Doing it manually does not scale past a phone or two, which is the problem Warmr exists to solve.
Because Warmr is automation software for iPhones you already own, not a done-for-you service that rents you hardware. You bring the phones, so you keep the margin. Plans:
  • Free — 7-day full trial, no card, 1 iPhone, 8 accounts.
  • Solo — $40/mo, 1 iPhone, 8 accounts.
  • Rack — $80/mo, 3 iPhones, 24 accounts. The most popular plan for growing operators.
  • Scale — $150/mo, unlimited iPhones and accounts.
Yearly billing is two months free. Compare that to rented racks at 2,000+/moorper−phonetoolsthatcharge2,000+/mo or per-phone tools that charge 99–150 per phone and do not even include proxies. See Plans.
You supply and own the iPhones. Warmr requires real, physical iPhones (no emulators, cloud phones, virtual devices, or jailbroken phones). Your Mac is the orchestrator: it connects to each iPhone over a USB cable, which is required at all times (Wi-Fi is not an alternative), and one Mac can drive roughly 10 or more iPhones at once. A powered USB hub is recommended at 6+ devices.Recommended models are iPhone 12 and newer (13, 14, 15, or 16 are ideal) for the fastest runs. The minimum is iPhone XR (our verified floor); iPhone 11 also works, just a little slower, and iPhone XS / XS Max run iOS 17 too but are less tested. Older models (iPhone X, 8, 7, SE 1st gen and earlier) and iOS 16 or below are not supported. Warmr runs on iOS 17 or later with no upper limit, including iOS 18 and iOS 26. Leave at least 5 GB free per phone. See iPhones.
Up to 8 accounts per platform, though 3 to 4 accounts per iPhone is the practical sweet spot. Past 5 or 6 accounts on one device, switching between them eats an increasing share of each session’s time, so throughput per phone drops. If you want more accounts, more phones beats more accounts per phone. See Account lifecycle.
The unit of IP is the iPhone, not the account: one dedicated IP per phone, and the accounts on that phone share it. Never assign the same IP to two phones, that is the exact pattern proxies exist to avoid and a leading cause of flags at scale.You bring your own proxies (Warmr does not sell them, but walks you through setup on a call). A single iPhone running 1 or 2 accounts on your home IP needs no proxy. As soon as you run two or more phones, each needs its own IP. Warmr is built around SOCKS5; recommended types in order are ISP proxies (the all-rounder, often a few dollars a month), 4G mobile (the gold standard), residential, and a dedicated SIM per phone (best for hardware racks). On-device you use Stash or Shadowrocket, configured from the QR code on Warmr’s Proxy page. Traffic goes from the iPhone straight to your proxy provider, so your Mac is never on the account-traffic path. See Proxies.
Warmr supports four platforms: TikTok, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn. Auto-posting today is TikTok and Instagram only. X and LinkedIn are currently activity-only, meaning Warmr keeps those accounts active with real engagement but does not auto-post to them yet. See X and LinkedIn.
Ramp performs the actions you schedule: scrolling and watching, liking a natural proportion of what it sees, following a few relevant accounts, and running niche keyword searches. It does not comment, because commenting reliably would require an unofficial API, which we do not use. New accounts watch videos through rather than skipping, and activity can run daily and around each post, so an account that posts every day also has activity every day rather than being dormant in between. See How ramp works.
No. Warmr does not generate your content or decide what to post. You supply the clips and assign target accounts through Cloud Drop, and Warmr distributes each post into the next open slot for those accounts. The “what to post” judgment stays with you; Warmr automates the paced posting and ramp behavior around it. During ramp, it does bias the algorithm toward your niche by searching relevant keywords and engaging with the results, but that is signaling intent, not understanding your content.
There is no public API today, and it is not a near-term commitment, though we may add one in the future. The programmatic surface that exists now is warmrctl, a local command-line tool that controls the running Warmr app over a local socket (no network transport), plus an installable agent skill so an AI agent can drive setup. To feed content in programmatically, use Cloud Drop: drop clips at app.warmr.so from any browser and they queue to the accounts you choose. Worth knowing: posting through a platform’s own API typically kills reach, so on-device posting is the point, not a limitation. See Set up with Claude.
A few options: email hi@warmr.so, join the Discord, or book a setup call (proxy setup specifically is walked through live). To self-serve, follow the Quickstart, the 9-video setup playlist, or paste one prompt into Claude and let it install the runner and drive setup (Set up with Claude). Your first device takes about 20 to 30 minutes, and the first ramp runs in under 10 minutes.