Put your iPhone anywhere on Earth from your Mac. Every app believes it.
Website ·
Docs ·
Download for Mac
Alibi uses the location path Apple ships for developers, over a USB cable. Nothing on the phone is modified, nothing is jailbroken, and Reset puts real GPS back instantly. It works with every app that reads the phone's location: Find My, Maps, Life360, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder, Pokémon GO and the rest.
 |
Static. Search a place, click the map or paste coordinates, press Change Location. Pick another place while it holds and Alibi asks Move here?. Lock keeps the location after you unplug. |
 |
Routes. Numbered stops you can drag into order, up to ten waypoints, freehand drawing fitted to the roads, Walk / Cycle / Drive or Auto (each road's posted limit, lane changes on fast roads, pauses at corners). Preview the drive with a ghost marker before the phone moves. |
 |
Stop, Continue, Back. Stop holds the phone where it is and keeps the rest of the route for Continue. Back returns to the planner with the phone staying put, so the next leg can start from here. |
 |
Maps. Dark, Satellite with 3D buildings, Matrix and Light. Find My-style dots that scale with the zoom, a blue dot for where you really are, an animated route line. |
More in the docs: Setup iPhone · Static Mode · Routes Mode · Saved Locations · FAQ
Install it once from the Mac with any Apple ID (Install on iPhone) and the phone changes its own location with no cable and no Mac around. It talks to itself through a loopback VPN, fetches the developer image on its own, and keeps working until the signature expires: a free Apple ID needs a re-sign every 7 days, which is one plug-in. How it works and how to set it up.
- Download Alibi for Mac, drag it to Applications and open it.
- Plug the iPhone in with a data cable, unlock it and tap Trust. Turn on Developer Mode (Settings › Privacy & Security) and let the phone restart. Setup in the app walks through it.
- Enter your access code. One code covers one Mac and one iPhone.
- Pick a place and press Change Location.
Access codes are time-limited, checked against Alibi's licence server and bound to the devices that use them, so they cannot be shared or forged. Every licence can invite three friends for three weeks each. Get a code on the website.
The website under site/ (plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, published to GitHub Pages on every push) and the release builds: Alibi.dmg for the Mac and AlibiMobile.ipa for the phone. The app source is not published here.
Open an issue with the text from Settings › Phone › Copy diagnostics. It holds the phone's state and the last fifty log lines, nothing personal.