A VPN to your own home, not to ours
Periscope routes your traffic through your own home network instead of a rented data center. You keep one device running there — an Apple TV, a Mac or a PC — and everything you travel with connects back to it.
- Exit
- Your own home IP, not a shared one
- Needs
- An Apple TV, Mac or PC at home
- Tunnel
- WireGuard encryption
Why Periscope
Take control of your internet
Not a menu of countries. One exit — your own front door — and everything that follows from it.
- Trust
- Your connection routes through hardware you own rather than a VPN company's servers, and nothing in our system records what you connect to. There is no browsing history for us to log or sell, because there is nowhere for it to go.
- Secure
- WireGuard's cryptography —
Curve25519,ChaCha20-Poly1305— end to end between your device and your home, so a shared network sees encrypted packets and nothing more. How it works, in detail. - Resilient
- Use your trusted home connection while traveling, with smart fallback for difficult hotel, airport, and office networks.
How it works
No servers to rent, no settings to puzzle over.
Three steps and you're connected.
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Step 1
Set up the server at home
Create an account, then install Periscope on the Apple TV in your living room — or on a Mac or Windows desktop that stays home. That device is what your other devices connect back to.
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Step 2
Install it on the devices you travel with
Add Periscope to any laptop, tablet, or phone you take on the road and sign in with the same account.
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Step 3
Tap connect
Periscope opens a secure tunnel to your home. Your apps use that protected home connection wherever you are.
The first screen on an Apple TV: choose Server, and it becomes the device everything else connects back to.
Signed in with the same account, your home server is there by name.One tap, and the phone is connected home.
Your home access, anywhere
Keep your trusted internet experience on the road
Reach personal accounts, home resources, and familiar local services while respecting each service's own location and account rules.
Use your home IP
Connect through your own home network so personal services and local accounts see a familiar connection.
Handle difficult networks
Stay protected on public Wi-Fi and keep Periscope connected through smart direct, NAT traversal, or relay paths — even on the hotel and airport networks that block most VPNs.
Reduce account friction
Use a familiar home connection for banks, work tools, and local services that may challenge unusual travel networks.
Respect service rules
Third-party apps and subscriptions may still apply their own location, licensing, and account restrictions.
New — Apple TV
The server is already in your living room
Periscope's tvOS app turns an Apple TV into your home's tunnel endpoint, so nothing else has to stay switched on.
Nothing left running
The Apple TV is already on and drawing almost nothing. No desktop humming away in a spare room just to keep a tunnel open.
Set up from the TV and your phone
Install it, choose "Server" on the first screen, pair your phone. No admin console, no config files, no network settings to learn.
It can install itself
On the App Store, Periscope is one app across iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, so installing it on your iPhone is enough — with Automatically Install Apps switched on in the Apple TV's settings, the tvOS version appears on the TV without you touching it. The Mac and Windows apps are separate downloads from this site, on the same subscription.
Included, not an add-on
It's the same app and the same subscription as your other devices — and if a Mac or PC is already your server, nothing changes. The Apple TV is another option, not a replacement.
Requires tvOS 17 or later. To keep serving while idle, the Apple TV needs to be a home hub — assign it a room on the Apple TV itself, under Settings → AirPlay and Apple Home → Room (named AirPlay and HomeKit on tvOS 17). Most already are, and the app walks you through it.
Pricing
One simple plan. Cancel any time.
Personal
$2/month
billed annually at $24 · or $5.99 month to month
Everything Periscope does, on every device you own.
Sign up- Free 7-day trial
- 1 account, all your devices
- Unlimited data on direct connections
- 5 GB / month relay allowance for difficult networks
Relay is only used when a direct connection isn't possible — on most networks you'll never touch the allowance. Subject to our fair use policy.
Enterprise
Custom
A tailored setup for your company — let's design a plan that's right for your team.
Contact us- Unlimited accounts
- Everything in Personal
- Custom branding
Download
Install Periscope where it matters.
Set up an Apple TV — or a Mac or Windows desktop — at home as the server, then connect from iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, or Windows while you travel.
iOS 17+, iPadOS 17+, tvOS 17+ and Android 8+ Apple TV, Mac and Windows work as the home server
iPhone, iPad and Android
Start from the App Store or Google Play on the device you take with you.
Scan with an iPhone or iPad to open Periscope in the App Store.
Apple TV
On the App Store, Periscope is one app across iPhone, iPad and Apple TV — a single purchase, not three. So the quickest route is to install it here, on the device you are holding.
If your Apple TV has Automatically Install Apps switched on in Settings, the tvOS version then arrives on it by itself, with nothing else to do.
tvOS 17+. If that setting is off, open the App Store on the Apple TV and search for Periscope. Either way, choose "Server" on its first screen.
Mac or Windows
Install on the desktop that stays home, or on the laptop you use to connect back to it.