io1: Private Networks

Reach your Mac, servers and your other machines from this iPhone or iPad, by name, over your account's private networks. Encrypted end to end, direct when it can be.

io1 puts this iPhone or iPad on your account's private networks, one switch per network. Your Mac, your servers and your other machines each keep a private address and a name, like nas.home.n.io1.io, and this device reaches them wherever it has an internet connection, at home or away.

▸ One Switch per Network

• Switch each of your networks on or off for this device; the others keep running. • Each network shows this device's address and name in it, and every device in it: its address, whether it is online, and how this device reaches it. • Name this device when you connect it; your other devices reach it by that name. Rename it whenever you like. • Leave a network from its detail. Switching it on again joins it again.

▸ Direct When It Can Be

io1 continually tries to connect your devices directly to each other. When it can, which is most of the time, traffic travels straight between them, at the speed of your own Wi-Fi when they share it, and never passes through io1's servers. When no direct path exists, as on some strict hotel Wi-Fi, traffic is relayed through your account's own edge node, which serves your account alone and cannot read it.

▸ Encrypted End to End

Traffic between your devices is encrypted end to end. Names in your networks are resolved on this device.

▸ Only Your Networks' Traffic

io1 carries only traffic addressed to devices in your networks. Everything else this device sends goes out the way it always does: io1 does not route, monitor, filter, or store it.

▸ Stays On by Itself

Networks you switch on stay connected when io1 is closed and through network changes. Turn any of them off in io1 at any time; the VPN switch in Settings pauses them all.

▸ What io1 Knows

To run your networks, io1 knows which networks this device belongs to and when it is online, this device's local and public IP addresses (to set up direct connections), and how much traffic your edge node carries. It cannot read the contents of your traffic. io1 uses this information only to operate your networks and does not sell or share it with third parties.

▸ Requirements

The app requires an io1 subscription with a network on one of your account's edge nodes. Subscriptions, accounts, networks and edge nodes are managed on the web, outside of the app; the app connects this device to the networks your account already has. Requires iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later.

io1 is made by Bitmot LLC. Privacy policy: https://bitmot.com/privacy Terms of service: https://bitmot.com/terms