PhoneRig

Kristowyn

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About this app

Got an old Android phone in a drawer? PhoneRig turns it into your own server: no cloud bills, no command line, no setup. Just tap Start.

PhoneRig runs a real Linux environment inside the app, so you can host a website reachable anywhere over HTTPS. Everything runs on YOUR device.

BUILD A REAL WEBSITE IN MINUTES
- Answer a few questions and PhoneRig builds a modern one-page site. Add a photo for a full-screen hero.
- Show a menu or price list: each item with a name, optional price and note. Leave the price off and the line stays plain.
- Set opening hours day by day: visitors see a live "Open now" badge, search engines get readable hours.
- Add up to eight photos as a gallery, and a map for your address.
- Take bookings: a visitor picks a service and time, and it reaches you as a normal WhatsApp message or email. No forms, no middleman.
- Ten styles, with your own fonts and accent colors.
- Preview in the app, publish in one tap, get a QR code for your window.
- Call and WhatsApp buttons that work: your number carries its country code, filled in from your SIM.

GET ONLINE IN MINUTES
- Get a free web address (yourname.phonerig.app) in seconds, or connect your own domain.
- Reachable from anywhere over HTTPS: no port forwarding, no static IP, automatic SSL, powered by a secure Cloudflare tunnel.
- Or keep it Wi-Fi-only for a private home server.

ONE-TAP APPS
WordPress, Gitea, code-server, Filebrowser and Syncthing: install a full app with one tap. PhoneRig wires it to your server and tunnel, with secure logins shown in the app.

BUILD YOUR OWN
Prefer to build from scratch? PhoneRig gives you a ready-made prompt for the AI coding tool on your computer: it connects, builds your site and deploys it. Or drop in your own static site.

CONNECT LIKE A REAL SERVER
- SSH in from your laptop, on Wi-Fi or over the internet.
- One-tap VS Code Remote-SSH config and a built-in web terminal.
- Travel proxy: browse with your home connection while away. One SSH command from a laptop, or install PhoneRig on a second phone, scan a QR, and Android's VPN sends every app through your own server at home. No PhoneRig VPN service, no third party in the path. Sites see your home connection, so this is not anonymity.

DESIGNED TO BE SIMPLE
- Five tabs, one job each: Server, Address, My app, Backups and Settings.
- Get notified when your site goes offline and comes back, with a status log answering "what happened last night?"
- Fleet on this Wi-Fi (beta): more than one PhoneRig phone? See them together. Local only, nothing leaves your network.
- Updates never restart a running server.
- Speaks your language: 59 languages, or force English any time.

KEEP IT RUNNING
- Automatic weekly backups to Drive, an SD card or anywhere you choose, with an optional passphrase lock.
- Monitoring and alerts for CPU, memory, storage and temperature.
- Battery-care guidance for a phone that stays plugged in 24/7.

WHY PHONERIG
- Private by design: your data stays on your phone; no ads, no analytics, no tracking.
- Your published site makes no outside requests by default: no third-party fonts, scripts or trackers. The map and your Google tag are opt-in.
- Reuses hardware you own instead of paying monthly for the cloud.

PRICING
- Free: core server, free subdomain, website builder, SSH and web terminal.
- One-time unlocks: Backups + Monitoring $4.99, App Presets $14.99, or PhoneRig Pro $17.99 (everything, forever).
- Your own domain: $0.99 on your Cloudflare account, or we manage it for $4.99/year.

GOOD TO KNOW
- Works on 64-bit ARM phones (most Androids from ~2017) with 3 GB+ RAM, up to Android 16.
- Remote access uses Cloudflare's tunnel; your content stays on your device.

Give that old phone a second life. Start your own server today.

What’s new

Take your home connection travelling. Pair a second phone by scanning a QR code on your PhoneRig, tap Connect, and every app on that phone browses through your home connection - you appear at home wherever you are, encrypted all the way to your PhoneRig. Also new: connect the site editor without typing a password, search the language list, a clearer status log and charts, and an animated launch screen. Smaller fixes and polish throughout.