Your router. Your IP. Your rules.
Bank, invest, and work abroad — without getting locked out.
Ownhearth keeps your real home IP wherever you travel, so banks, brokerages, and work logins keep trusting you. It runs on two routers you own — not a shared VPN server — and you pay once.
$79 setup + about $170 of routers you buy and keep. No subscription — that's the whole price. 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Public VPN IPs are shared by thousands — banks flag them and lock you out.
- A subscription VPN is a forever bill for a server you never see.
- Ownhearth uses your home connection. To every website, you look like you're home.
- The traffic never touches our servers. We can't see it. Nobody can resell it.
Your real home IP
Every site sees your genuine home address, so the lockouts and extra verification stop.
Rock-solid, on purpose
A self-healing watchdog reconnects flaky hotel Wi-Fi before you notice — it caught roughly 19 of 20 drops in our year of testing.
Independent by design
It all runs on hardware you own. No subscription, no servers to trust, no account to keep paying.
Private — even from us
Traffic flows straight between your two routers. It never passes through Ownhearth, so there's nothing for us to see or sell.
How solid is it, really?
Measured on our own setup in test windows over a year of travel on hotel and airport Wi‑Fi. Your numbers will vary with your connections — these are our honest results, not a guarantee.
Made for people who need home to follow them
Americans abroad & expats
Keep your bank, brokerage, and IRS/SSA logins working from another country.
Long-term travelers & nomads
Move freely while your accounts still see one steady, trusted home address.
Remote workers
Reach work portals and tools that block or flag foreign and VPN IP addresses.
Snowbirds & frequent flyers
Spend months away without re-verifying your identity every time you log in.
Sound familiar?
- • Your brokerage flags the login and freezes the session.
- • Your bank texts a verification code to a number that doesn't work abroad.
- • Your work portal simply refuses a foreign IP.
Set up in about ten minutes
Three steps. No networking knowledge.
Plug in your home box
Connect the little router we recommend to your home internet. It becomes your private doorway home.
Run our helper
Download a small app, click once. It sets up both routers for you — no config files, no command line.
Travel on your home IP
Take the travel router with you. Connect, and you're online exactly as if you were sitting at home.
Pay once. Own it forever.
Most home‑IP services bill every month. Ownhearth is one payment — then it's yours.
| Ownhearth | Typical home-IP service | Public VPN | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Looks like your real home | Yes | Yes | No — shared IP |
| What you pay | $79 once | Monthly, forever | Monthly, forever |
| Who owns the hardware | You do | They do | They do |
| If the connection drops | Fixes itself — a human answers | You troubleshoot, or book a call | Switch servers and hope |
| Can they see your traffic | No | Sometimes | Yes |
| Works if we disappear | Yes — it's yours | No | No |
Why we built this
I got locked out one too many times.
I kept getting shut out of my own bank and brokerage from the wrong side of an ocean — frozen sessions, codes texted to a phone that won't ring abroad. The "home IP" services I tried billed me monthly and still dropped on hotel Wi‑Fi. So my co‑founder and I spent a year building one that heals itself — on hardware you own, with a real person (often me) answering when you write in.
— Peter Zheng, co‑founder
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Your private home VPN, set up for you.
Pay once. Runs on your own routers. A real person on support — and a 30-day money-back guarantee, so the only risk is ours.