A proxy client for iOS
You bring the servers. It brings everything else.
tunelly is a client, not a service. It reads the configuration you already have — a subscription address, a share link, a file for a server you run yourself — and carries your traffic through it. We operate no servers, sell no access, and collect nothing at all.
The control from the app, doing nothing in particular.
Its own engine
Written from scratch, in Rust.
Most clients in this category are the same open-source core with a different colour scheme. This one is not: the data plane is ours — a userspace TCP/IP stack, its own TLS, its own handshakes, its own connection management. That is a great deal more work than vendoring somebody else's library, and it is the reason the app behaves like a product rather than a fork.
Nothing waits on the app
The tunnel runs in its own process. Close the app, swipe it away — the connection does not notice.
The first payload rides along
A request and the proxy's own handshake leave in the same write, which saves a round trip on every connection you open.
A dead server is not your problem
Give it a group and it picks the one that answers, moves off the ones that stop, and keeps the next connection warm.
Small enough to survive
A network extension is killed past roughly fifty megabytes. The whole data plane is built to the constraint rather than around it.
What it speaks
Your configuration, whatever shape it arrived in.
Paste a link or a subscription address and the app works out the rest. Every transport below is tested against the real servers that produce it, not against a specification. If you do not have a configuration yet, there are three ways one reaches you.
Privacy
There is no "us" in the data path.
No account, no sign-up, no email address, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier. The app has no telemetry endpoint to report to, so there is nowhere for anything about you to arrive. Your traffic goes from your device to your server, and what that server's operator can see is between you and them.
- Collected
- Nothing.
- Stored
- Your configurations, in the iOS Keychain on your device. Deleted with the app.
- Requests
- Only to addresses you added: your subscription, your servers.
- Anonymity
- Not promised. A proxy moves where your traffic enters the internet; it does not make you anonymous.
The whole of it is in the privacy policy, written to be read rather than to be survived.
Getting it
Coming to the App Store.
Until then, there is nothing to sign up for and no waiting list to join — we would only have to collect an email address to run one.