Frequently asked questions

Geovoya is a desktop app for Windows and macOS that sets the GPS location of a connected iPhone or Android phone. You can hold a fixed point, play back a route on real roads, or, with Pro, walk around with a joystick and control up to three phones at once. It works over a USB cable or, once set up, the same Wi-Fi network.

Developers and QA engineers testing location-aware apps on real devices, people who want to demo a product in another city, and privacy-minded users who don’t want to share their exact whereabouts in a specific context.

The free plan covers one phone, fixed locations, two-stop road routes at 45 mph, 3 saved routes, place search and keyboard shortcuts. Pro adds walk mode, any route speed, multi-stop routes with loops and pauses, GPX/KML import and export, realistic movement, a 500-route library with on-map editing, up to three phones at once and cloud sync.

Pro is $9.99 per month or $79 per year. Prices are shown in US dollars; the final amount, including any tax, is confirmed at checkout. You need a Geovoya account to subscribe, and you can cancel at any time from the billing portal.

No. On iPhone, Geovoya uses Apple’s developer services, which you turn on with Developer Mode. On Android, it uses USB debugging and a mock-location helper app (Appium Settings) that Geovoya installs for you.

Computers: Windows 10/11 on 64-bit Intel or AMD processors, and macOS on Apple silicon or Intel. Windows on ARM and Linux are not supported. Phones: iPhone XS/XR or newer on iOS 17.4 or later, and Android 8.0 or later. Cable-free Android pairing needs Android 11 or later.

It happens once, and Geovoya guides it live. Plug in and unlock the iPhone and tap Trust when the prompt appears. Click Show Developer Mode so the hidden switch appears (no Xcode needed), turn it on in Settings → Privacy & Security and restart. Geovoya then mounts Apple’s developer image automatically, including after every restart. On Windows, install Apple Devices from the Microsoft Store first.

Yes. Connect over USB first. Once the phone is ready, Geovoya offers Switch to Wi-Fi when your computer and phone share a network. The current location carries over and a running route continues. Android 11 and later can also pair without a cable. Wi-Fi mode has automated test coverage but has not yet been verified end to end on physical phones.

Not for the free plan. The app works without signing in. An account is needed for Pro: it holds your subscription, lets you sign in the app on up to three computers and keeps cloud sync working.

Saved places, recent places, your route library, play history and a few shared preferences such as speed and realistic-movement settings. It never syncs phone sessions, phone identifiers or live location. You can download everything or delete your cloud data from your account page at any time.

Click Restore real location. On Android this stops the mock-location service; on iPhone it sends the clear-location command. Other apps may take a moment to update. Unplugging on its own does not reliably restore the real location, so reconnect and press Restore if needed. Restarting the phone is a further fallback.

The app has no telemetry or analytics. The map loads tiles from OpenStreetMap, place searches go to a Photon service, and planning a route sends the stop coordinates (with no device identifiers) to an OSRM service. If you use a Geovoya account, we store your email, subscription status, signed-in computers and, with cloud sync, the data listed above.

Current Geovoya builds are not code-signed, so macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen may warn you. Compare the download with the published checksums first, and only continue if you trust the file. Signed installers are on the roadmap.

Not necessarily. Some apps detect or reject simulated locations, and some cache an earlier position. Geovoya reports whether the phone accepted each command, but the only way to be sure is to check in the app you care about.

Geovoya is made for app development, QA testing, demos and privacy. Many apps and services forbid falsified location in their terms. Only use it on devices you control, respect those terms and the law where you live, and never use it to deceive or harm people.

The full source is on GitHub under GPL-3.0-or-later. Geovoya is a fork of the open-source Ghost project. See the Open source page for details and third-party components.