SimRun

tapflow is a self-hosted mobile QA platform for streaming iOS simulators and Android emulators to a team’s browser. It uses a relay server, a macOS agent that drives the simulators and emulator, and a browser dashboard connected through WebSockets; the agent connects outbound to the relay and does not require WebDriverAgent. QA users can interact with devices in real time without installing Xcode, Android Studio, or local simulator tooling. The platform supports build uploads, status tracking, touch and gesture input, clipboard synchronization, device audio, network control, deeplinks, session recordings, team roles, REST endpoints, and personal access tokens. It also includes an experimental YAML flow runner that produces JUnit reports and an experimental MCP server for controlling simulators through LLM agents. The relay can run on Linux or macOS, while agents run on macOS, and the project is distributed under the MIT license.

Roam Control is a source-available SwiftUI iPhone app for simulating reported device locations during location-based development, quality assurance, and personal testing on an iPhone the user owns and controls. It provides an Apple Maps interface for searching places with MapKit, entering coordinates, selecting map points, starting fixed locations, and previewing walking routes; active walks can be paused, resumed, reversed, or redirected, and locations can be saved as favourites or restored to the device's real position. The app pairs natively with the iPhone through LocalDevVPN. It stores an RPPairing record in the device-only Keychain, discovers the remote-pairing service, verifies the device identity, and opens an encrypted developer session to set or clear the simulated location. It is distributed as an IPA through GitHub Releases rather than the App Store or TestFlight and must be signed with SideStore or Xcode. The public beta requires iOS 27 or newer and Developer Mode. The current source is licensed under PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0; the earlier 0.9.0 Beta 1 release remains under the MIT License.

Virtual Mac on iPad is a community project that runs macOS in a hardware-virtualized virtual machine on compatible Apple-silicon iPads. Its tooling extracts and rebuilds the virtualization frameworks required from macOS's shared cache, allowing macOS applications such as Xcode, Terminal, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro to run on the device. The project requires a jailbroken iPad Pro with an M1 or M2 chip or an M1 iPad Air running iPadOS 14 through 16.3.1. It is distributed as a package through the project's Cydia repository and installed with Sileo; the project states that it is unaffiliated with Apple, Dopamine, UTM, and VirtualBuddy.

vphone-cli is an open-source macOS command-line tool for creating and running virtual iPhones with Apple's Virtualization.framework and PCC research VM infrastructure. It targets Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later and automates the VM workflow from IPSW download and patching through DFU restore, custom firmware installation, and first boot. The tool supports multiple firmware patch variants, VM creation and management, SSH and VNC connections, IPA installation, and export/import or APFS cloning of VM bundles. Its host control socket provides programmatic screenshots, touch and swipe input, hardware-key events, and clipboard operations, with each action returning an inline screenshot; the repository also describes an MCP server named vphone-mcp for AI-driven end-to-end testing. Operation requires Xcode and the iOS SDK, several Homebrew dependencies, and macOS SIP/AMFI relaxation to permit the required private virtualization entitlements.

vPhone Workstation is a native macOS SwiftUI application for managing virtual iPhones. It provides a library with live running or stopped state, iOS and cloudOS builds, search, and VM details including variant, CPU, memory, disk, network, device, and UDID. Users can start, stop, foreground, clone, rename, export, configure, and delete virtual machines. Its creation wizard selects a VM variant, firmware pairing, and CPU, memory, and disk resources, while streaming progress from vphone-cli and producing an exportable log. vPhone Workstation is a graphical front end for vphone-cli, which boots iOS research virtual machines through Apple's Virtualization.framework using PCC research VMs. It also checks host readiness, including the required macOS version, Apple Silicon hardware, vphone-cli availability, research-guest permissions, and AMFI configuration. The repository documents macOS 15 or newer as a requirement and provides Homebrew installation and source-build instructions.