Telepin
A Telepin route along Broadway, from SoHo through Union Square to Times Square, with the iPhone's position moving along it. 123

Your iPhone goes anywhere. You stay at your desk.

Stop walking the block to test a geofence. Telepin sets where your iPhone thinks it is, from your Windows PC, so you can check arrivals and route tracking, or see what your apps show in another city, without going outside.

Get Telepin for WindowsCopy link for my computerHow setup works

Free early access for Windows 10 or 11. Needs Apple’s Devices app, iOS 17.4 or later, USB and Developer Mode. Tested so far against a simulated iPhone, not yet a physical one.

Next · Union Square

810 m of 4.05 km · 39 min left

Try it: click the map and see where you land.

Demo of a Telepin route. No iPhone is connected. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

  1. Test the same build you ship.No test code to add or strip out.
  2. Keep working while the test runs.Your iPhone makes the trip while you write code.
  3. Start a long route and go to lunch.Come back to the finished run, with your phone still where the test left it.

Test the trips your users take, without taking them.

See your app in another city. Find out what it shows on the next street or in another country, without leaving your desk.
Teleport mode with Washington Square Park selected and a Set location button.
Check the whole trip, not just the arrival. See whether your app tracks the whole trip, at the pace of a walk, a ride or a drive.
Route mode with three stops along Broadway, a walking speed and a Start route button.
Skip the waiting. Check every arrival on your list back to back, without sitting through the trips between them.
Jump mode with three stops and a timer between jumps.
Land on the exact spot that breaks it. Reach the cases a saved route misses: circle a geofence edge, double back or stop exactly where you want.
Joystick mode with a start point, speed choices and a Start joystick button.

The hassle you get to skip

When a test fails, run it again exactly.

  • Reproduce the bug reportImport the GPX track from the report and replay that exact path. Share yours so a teammate can replay the same path.
  • Catch what fails on lap threeRepeat a route, or run it out and back, without touching it between passes.
  • Never rebuild a test tripClose the app tonight. Your routes and places are waiting tomorrow, saved on your own computer.
The Passes stepper set to 3, with Then set to Backtrack. Import GPX and Export GPX buttons, then a route named Store geofence check, saved in the route list.

Get your real location back in one click.

One click and your phone is home again, so you don’t leave it stuck in another city.

If the connection drops first, Telepin tells you your phone may still show the wrong place, and shows you the fix.

Stuck on the wrong location? Here is the fix
The Telepin panel with Washington Square Park set and an amber Restore real GPS button.
Back where you really are
The Telepin panel saying real GPS may still be overridden, with a Reconnect iPhone button.
If the connection drops, you are told before you walk away with the wrong location

Four things to check before your first test.

Confirm it on your iPhone with one look at Maps
So far we have tested against a simulated iPhone. USB, Wi-Fi and restoring are not yet checked on a physical one, including iOS 26.7.
Check the installer before you run it
The source and checksum are public. It is unsigned, so Windows may warn you and Smart App Control may block it. What to do.
On a Mac? You can build it yourself from source
There is no installer yet, and that build is not tested.
Find out early if your app objects
Some apps can detect a simulated location or refuse it, so try yours before a surprise lands mid-test.

Run your next location test from your chair.

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Check your location features at your desk, before a user meets them on the street. Free, with no account.