HostAnywhere

HostAnywhere

About this app

HostAnywhere — Zero Trust Network Access for your devices

Securely connect users, devices, and workloads with identity-based access instead of open network ports. HostAnywhere applies Zero Trust principles to private networking: every connection is cryptographically authenticated, every device has its own identity, every packet is end-to-end encrypted with WireGuard®.

No open ports. No public IP on your devices. No VPN concentrator. No jump host. No always-on admin.


IDENTITY-BASED CONNECTIVITY

Access is tied to who you are, not where you're connecting from:

- Sign in with Google, Apple, Microsoft, or GitHub — no separate VPN credentials
- Every device is assigned a cryptographic identity (WireGuard keypair generated on-device; the private key never leaves it)
- Devices outside your authorized network are unreachable by default — deny-first, not trust-first
- Centralized inventory with per-device live status and last-seen signal


SECURE PRIVATE NETWORK

Your devices connect into a private mesh. Each device gets a stable address and can reach every other device authorized for the same network:

- Peer-to-peer WireGuard tunnels by default — low-latency direct paths, no traffic routed through a central gateway when it doesn't have to be
- Encrypted relay fallback when peer-to-peer isn't possible
- Works across NAT, CGNAT, corporate Wi-Fi, and mobile carriers
- UDP/443 and WebSocket-over-HTTPS fallback for strict enterprise firewalls and TLS-inspection SASE gateways


EXPOSE INTERNAL APPS WITHOUT OPENING PORTS

Publish local services on the public internet with a dedicated *.hostanywhere.io URL — no port forwarding, no reverse proxy, no firewall hole to punch:

- End-to-end encrypted from the public internet straight into your device
- The local service stays on localhost
- Useful for internal tools, dashboards, webhooks, APIs, and dev servers


SUBNET AND INTERNET GATEWAYS

- Designate a device as a subnet router to bridge a private LAN into the mesh — reach IoT devices, printers, and legacy infrastructure without installing an agent on each one
- Designate a device as an internet exit to route outbound traffic through a location you trust


ONE IDENTITY, EVERY PLATFORM

- Android, iOS
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Cloud VMs, home servers, edge devices

Authenticated once, your network is reachable from every device signed in to the same account.


PRIVACY BY DESIGN

- No inspection, logging, or sale of traffic flowing through the tunnel
- WireGuard private keys generated on-device, never leave it
- End-to-end encrypted connections
- Full policy at hostanywhere.io/privacy


WHO IT'S FOR

- Developers hosting side projects, home labs, and personal infrastructure
- IT and security teams replacing legacy VPNs with identity-aware access
- Teams that want Zero Trust-style connectivity without the price tag of an enterprise SASE platform
- Anyone who wants private, verified connectivity without depending on a commercial VPN provider

VPN CORE FUNCTIONALITY

HostAnywhere uses Android's VpnService API to create the encrypted WireGuard
tunnel that is the core of the app. VpnService is required to establish the
private mesh network — without it the app provides no functionality.

All traffic on the tunnel is end-to-end encrypted with WireGuard
(Curve25519 key exchange, ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption). The tunnel
terminates on your own devices; HostAnywhere does not proxy or inspect
your traffic and has no exit nodes operated by HostAnywhere.


Questions or feedback: [e-mail]

What’s new

Connect your devices and services securely through an encrypted peer-to-peer network. Works across NAT — no VPN server to run.

Share or expose any local service instantly — no DNS setup, no firewall rules, no waiting.

Manage services and devices from a central dashboard. Push changes instantly, from anywhere.