shipped · 2026 · macOS · v1.4

Wisp — set your iPhone's location from your Mac.

A menu-bar app for the Mac that sets your iPhone's GPS to any point, walks it along real roads at a human pace, or hands you a joystick. No jailbreak, no root password, no cloud — one app, a cable, done. Built for developers testing location features and for people who think where they are is their own business.

walk: 4.7 km/h, GPS jitter ±3 m — indistinguishable from a stroll
FIG. 1 — left: the route you lay out on the Mac. right: what your iPhone now believes. try teleport mode to see why "walk" exists.

The hard part is the boring part

Setting a location is one Apple developer-protocol call. Doing it without root, without a jailbreak, and without asking for your password — a userspace USB tunnel speaking the device protocols in-process — is the part that took the engineering. Wisp ships as a notarized, signed app: download, open, done.

What it does

Static points with saved bookmarks. Routes snapped to real roads, walked at a configurable human pace with GPS-style jitter and cooldowns. A joystick (and WASD) for free walking. GPX import for repeatable test runs. History, so you can get back to anywhere you've been.