Connect every device you own through one secure private network — then use it to run your own backup, private AI, internet exit and more, on hardware you control.
Mac · Windows · Linux · iPhone · Android — one agent, every device.
Install the agent and each device gets a stable private address. Your devices reach services on each other across different routers, carriers, or continents — zero configuration, and Access Control decides who reaches what. Your phone in a hotel talks to your desktop at home as if they shared a desk.
Peer-to-peer when possible, relay-assisted when needed — relays can't read your traffic.
The platform in a few minutes — then pick any walkthrough below:
A private network between your devices is the foundation. What it's for is taking back the cloud services you pay for every month — one at a time, with hardware already sitting in your house:
Your old PC is your iCloud. Photos, contacts, calendars — encrypted on the phone, stored on your computer, from anywhere.
Back up your phone → Run AI without a subscriptionYour gaming PC is your AI server. Open models on your hardware, a ChatGPT-style chat from every device.
Run your own AI → Your own VPN exitA personal VPN that exits through hardware you control. Your home connection, everywhere you go.
Take your connection with you →One OpenAI-compatible API for providers and local models, with dedicated MCP and A2A gateways for tools and agents — governed in one place.
Govern your AI → Replaces tunneling toolsGive anything on localhost a real HTTPS address — dev previews, webhooks, self-hosted apps — without opening ports.
Expose a service → For homelabs & officesBridge a home, office, or datacenter LAN into your private network — printers, NAS, cameras, servers reachable from your authorized devices, no agent on each.
Bridge a LAN →A private network doesn't mean everything is open to everyone. Access Control — included on every plan — sets which people and devices can reach which services: give a contractor one server instead of the whole network, keep guest devices away from sensitive machines, expose production only to the engineers who need it. See what rules can do →
On Developer plans and above, access can also depend on device security posture. Connect the endpoint tools you already run, and a healthy state becomes a condition on your allow rules:
Require a minimum Zero Trust Assessment score (0–100, covering sensor health, patch status, login behavior and account hygiene).
Require the device to be compliant with your organization's policies.
A device that's offline or hasn't been scanned simply doesn't match posture-gated rules — going dark never bypasses a check. HostAnywhere uses your endpoint tools' signals; it doesn't replace them. How posture checks work →
Invite teammates and their devices join the same private network automatically — governed by the same Access Control, with SSO on Team plans and above. Start free with 3 people and 10 devices; grow to a company — same network, same rules.
The Free plan includes the private network for 3 people and 10 devices with 3 public service URLs — plus phone backups, storage, the AI Server and the AI Gateway. Paid plans add more devices and users, the internet and VPN gateways, and team features. See pricing.
Mac, Windows and Linux (desktops and servers), plus iPhone and Android. One agent per device — and every device gets a stable private IP address the others can use to reach its services.
No. Devices find each other behind different routers, carriers and continents — no port forwarding, no dynamic DNS, no certificates. That's the part HostAnywhere makes disappear.
Traffic between your devices is encrypted end to end. It flows peer-to-peer when possible; when a direct connection isn't possible it's relay-assisted — relays forward encrypted packets and cannot read their contents.
It gives you what many people want from a VPN — secure access to your devices and services from anywhere — without routing all your internet traffic through a commercial VPN provider. And when you do want a traditional VPN's behavior, the Internet Gateway gives you one that exits on hardware you control.
Those are the category labels, yes: devices communicate over encrypted tunnels — peer-to-peer whenever possible, relay-assisted when a direct connection isn't available (the "mesh") — and Access Control determines which devices and users can reach what (the "zero trust"). We just prefer plain language: a private network between your devices.
In the dashboard under Devices, or in the Windows tray / macOS menu bar icon.
Install HostAnywhere on two devices. Connect them privately. Start building your own cloud.