NoMac

What NoMac is

NoMac rents short-lived cloud Macs to AI coding agents. An agent such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor starts a real macOS machine on Apple silicon in about a minute, builds, tests and ships an Apple app on it over MCP, the CLI, a REST API or SSH, then stops it. Billing is $0.90 an hour, per minute, from prepaid credit with no subscription. NoMac is built by Gary Miklos and launched in 2026.

How it works

• NoMac Session: a full macOS VM with admin rights, Xcode 27, Homebrew, Node, Python and CocoaPods; no password prompts or dialogs waiting for a person.
• Persistent drive: an encrypted 20 GB drive at ~/drive keeps projects and build cache between Macs; named drives for parallel agents.
• Ship to Apple: signing, TestFlight uploads and App Review submissions run with an App Store Connect key held on NoMac's servers.
• Watch or take over: open the Mac's desktop in a browser at any time.
• Secrets: added once, injected into every Mac, masked in output.

Other products on the same credit

• NoMac Simulator: a cloud iOS Simulator ready in about 4 seconds, built on the open-source simulator-use MCP (screen as text, tap by label), with tests, saved states, live view and replays.
• NoMac CI: macOS runners for GitHub Actions (runs-on: nomac), 6 cores and 8 GB per job; NoMac reports 2.7x faster and about 4x cheaper than GitHub's standard runner.
• NoMac Platform: a Simulator per end user via API, with TypeScript/Python SDKs and signed usage webhooks.

Pricing

$0.90 per hour, billed per minute, one-minute minimum. Credit in $10 packs (11.1 hours) that never expire, with up to 20% bonus credit on larger top-ups. Default limits per session: 2 hours, 10 idle minutes, $5 spend cap. Enterprise adds volume pricing, dedicated capacity and an SLA.

Security

Every Mac is an isolated VM with no public address, deleted at stop. Drives and secrets are encrypted; subprocessors are listed publicly. NoMac says it is not SOC 2 certified yet.