Beacon Walker Press kit
Turns an iPhone, iPad or Mac into the iBeacons a developer is building for.
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Fact sheet
- App name
- Beacon Walker: iBeacon Tools
- Developer
- Alt Interactive LLC
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Requires
- iOS 17 or later, macOS 14 or later
- Price
- Free to try. BeaconWalker Plus removes the limits and adds CSV export, as a monthly, yearly or lifetime purchase.
- Category
- Utilities
- First released
- 2016
- App Store
- View on the App Store
- Press contact
- info@altinteractive.studio
Descriptions
One line
Beacon Walker turns an iPhone, iPad or Mac into the iBeacons a developer is building for, and scans the ones in range.
Short
Beacon Walker is a testing tool for developers who build iBeacon apps. It simulates beacons with any UUID, major and minor, plays them in sequence to mimic walking through a space, and scans for the beacons nearby. Scans can be exported as CSV files.
Long
Developers who build for iBeacons usually need a drawer full of hardware and a lot of walking. Beacon Walker replaces both. It advertises any UUID, major and minor from an iPhone, iPad or Mac, and plays a list of beacons in sequence, each for as long as you set, to mimic walking through a store or a museum. It also scans: on iPhone and iPad it lists the beacons in range for a UUID with their signal strength, and on the Mac it finds every beacon nearby. Every scan is recorded and can be exported as a CSV file with one row per reading. Beacon Walker is free to try with up to 5 beacons and a 30-second demo; BeaconWalker Plus removes the limits and adds CSV export.
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About the developer
Beacon Walker came out of Peter’s work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where testing an app against nearly 300 beacons meant a lot of walking. First released in 2016, it now runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Peter W. Alt is a software architect and Staff iOS Engineer who designs the systems behind connected products, from medical devices to museum apps. He runs Alt Interactive, the independent studio that makes Baby’s Vision, Beacon Walker and Before Five.
Earlier he was the first in-house software developer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where his indoor treasure hunt A is for Art Museum won a Gold MUSE Award from the American Alliance of Museums. More about his work is on peteralt.com.
