Drop a pin and press transmit. AnyLocate builds the satellite signals for that place, live, and sends them out through your SDR.
Your phone does the rest by itself, exactly as it does outdoors. Nothing is injected, nothing is installed: no mock-location flag, no root, no jailbreak.
A “fake GPS” app only alters your phone's software, which iOS blocks without a jailbreak: no App Store app can move an iPhone's location, and Android flags it as a mock location and bans it. AnyLocate is not a software spoofer. It broadcasts a genuine satellite signal the device resolves on its own, working natively on iOS and Android.
AnyLocate is the signal-generation software; you supply the transmit front-end (an SDR) — easy to find on Amazon, eBay, or Alibaba from as little as $100. Software plus an affordable SDR — performance that stands up to a professional navigation-simulator box.
Most of that six-figure price is dedicated hardware, not the physics. Move signal generation into software and pair it with an SDR, and the same class of GNSS testing opens up to far more labs, teams, and researchers.
The established GNSS simulator vendors — the class of instrument AnyLocate is built to stand in for.
A professional simulator is purpose-built hardware — dedicated RF chains, disciplined oscillators, shielded enclosures — engineered for a small, specialised market. Few units ship, so the development cost lands on each box, and the price stays high.
The signal generation moves into software. You pair it with a standard SDR front-end you can buy off the shelf, and our carefully tuned engine drives it to roughly 95% of a professional simulator's real-world capability — at a fraction of the cost.