And it’s only 7Mb in size! This is how software should be. Awesome!
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2025
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Hmm that should just take 2h to download
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that looks awesome, but tbh i think making it ios 26.1 or higher is a missed opportunity. many people will slow connections will also be using old, out-of-date phones, so making it require the very latest version seems silly to me
I will change this tonight. Which version do you suggest setting the iOS version requirements to?
imo, the lowest possible, the better
im not an ios dev, and you are, so you’ll certainly know more about this than me, but from searching the minimum xcode 16 can target is ios 15. imo that’s fine enough, and from what i’ve seen it’s not even possible to upload something made for an older version anymore
thank you for replying btw! and good luck with your projects!
I will push a new build in a few minutes. Thank you for suggesting this.
yay, thank you!
New build pushed. But it will take 24 hours for Apple review.
Looking forward to it!
Maybe you'd be interested in the Gemini protocol, a deliberately very simple and basic alternative to the web's HTTP.
T-Mobile (a U.S. phone carrier) plans include free global roaming at 256kbps down which is bearable for texting apps but unusable in almost anything else. This is perfect!
Ohh free data plans sound very nice, not aware of any options for that in the UK. Would absolutely take it even if the speed was low. SSH can't need much speed surely.
Neat, I want to see more apps designed with efficiency in mind.
Any interest in an android version? I'd love to take it for a spin.
Yes, I'd love to make an Android version too. But I don't have an Android phone to test on. Technically could use a Android simulator device but my Macbook is probably to slow to handle it. But I will give it a try.
Feel free to post again when you got it to work. Looking foreward to trying it out.
You can do all this and more on Privacy Browser.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standard/
This isn't a thing that I need but thats cool as fuck!
I know it's absolutely terrible for privacy and all but have you tried Puffin Browser and Opera Mini? That's what I used to use with terrible mobile internet connections back in the days.
This is sick, great job!
it's about time we got free internet at low speeds. imagine if it would be trivial to connect anything to the internet with slow speeds.
although it'll probably end up in a dystopia
There's also Firsty free which is ad-supported. But now it's limited to 300MB per day. And also the data speed and time per ad depend on the location. I think it's 15 - 60 minutes per ad and 256kbps to 1Mbps. In Slovakia I get 30 minutes at 256kbps.
But it's not fully reliable. For example, now I wasn't able to watch an ad after running out of time. In the past Uber and Google Maps were usable even without watching ads. Maybe that's still supposed to be the case, but DNS just crapped out. With the Google part there was a bit of a bug, everything Google worked. At full speed. Even 4K60fps YouTube videos, and back then they didn't even have the 300MB limit.
Since they don't seem to be huge, and the ads certainly don't provide that much money I ended up reporting that and it has been fixed since.
Also, right now hotspot randomly works even without changing the TTL.
Right.... and there's one more problem. Device support, based on Play Store. I could only install it using aurora store when spoofing my phone as Google Pixel.
Speed test:
ad supported sounds like a nightmare. why can't we have a free tier with low speeds or even 100mb limit. like Amazon's old whispernet for the original kindles (insane how shitty are modern kindles compared to the old ones with keyboards).
Modern kindles are shittier because they're making them harder to use for anything except renting from Amazon and tracking you. If you have one and you want to read anything you own you need to not be on their network (or any network really).
Yes! It is time, and I hope more and more cell phone providers offer a free plan.
what service do you use that has a free plan?
https://www.whatsappsim.de/tarif/basistarif/ (I have 0€ on my account but connection still works)
Here's more detail: https://www.whatsappsim.de/content/dam/whatsappsim/downloads-formulare/produktinformationsblatt1.pdf
that's cool. wish there was something like that in the States.
Very cool!
Have you decided to make it open source?:
I think I will make it open source in a few days :)
Offtop, but I recall Opera browser having a Turbo mode that proxied your requests through their servers where they compressed and optimized stuff for your low traffic and low resources usage. I now see something akin to that implemented in PiHole as a network-wide adblocker. All different solutions on different layers, incl. your app, but what one can hope one day is that essential (if not most) services could have themselves had a low-traffic no-bullshit mode availiable upon request from the client, a solid petition material for the likes of EU.
Maybe a setting in all browsers would be great, for example "Request lite version of website" that can be toggled on and then a request gets sent to the server which serves the lite version of that website.
Very cool, I look forward to using it the next time I’m struggling at a place with slow cell service.
The default settings work best but if you want, you can also block web fonts. That could cause some websites to break, so use with caution.
Edit: Oh, I forgot to say, you can always share your experience here. Would love to hear. :)
You have much more technical knowledge and skill than I do. This is very cool! Congrats!
Don't say that, I bet you're doing awesome ! :)
Thats so cool bro, i will find it helpful
Very neat. Anyone know of an Android equivalent?