Pinshift
Change your iPhone's location from your PC or Mac
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Details
- External ID
- 1275595
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Picnift
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- iOS, Mac, Developer Tools
Description
Set your iPhone's GPS location to anywhere from your Windows PC or Mac. Teleport in one click, or walk, bike and drive along real roads. Saved places, routes, GPX files and an iPhone app. No jailbreak, nothing modified. Free for 3 days.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop utilities and device controllers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- gps location spoofing tool for ios
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Spoofing iOS GPS locations from desktop without jailbreaking requires reverse-engineering Apple's proprietary MobileDevice/libimobiledevice protocol and developer image mounting.
What it would actually take: The desktop software (C++/Rust or Electron) must interface with Apple's private USB communication protocol via `usbmuxd` and mount the `DeveloperDiskImage.dmg` for the specific iOS version to access the `com.apple.dt.simulatelocation` service. The hard parts include maintaining compatibility across iOS updates, managing USB/Wi-Fi tunnel handshake encryption, and bypassing Apple's developer mode and integrity restrictions on iOS 16+ without triggering anti-cheat or app-level spoofing detections.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 369 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #181 of 370 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
- Geovo · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- GPSLarp · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- PinShot · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- FindMySpot · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- App to spoof GPS location on iOS without jailbreaking · hn · 2026-01-18 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Whereabouts · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- EasyGeotag · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ParkPulse · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51