Early Access
v0.1.0-beta

Tether Beta

Mesh chat. File drop. Ghost radar. Full system-level integration. No internet required.

Mesh Chat

Encrypted group messaging over Bluetooth and WiFi Direct. No cell towers, no routers, no servers.

MultipeerConnectivityE2E Encrypted

File Drop

Peer-to-peer file transfer over Bluetooth mesh. AirDrop without the Apple tax.

Peer-to-PeerAny File Type

Deep Radar

Manufacturer, battery, model detection. Ghost mode unlocks full device fingerprinting.

CoreBluetoothLow-Level
Live Demo

Mesh in action.

Every beacon creates a chatroom. Messages and files travel peer-to-peer.

Tether Mesh
0 peers
Install

Get Tether Beta.

BUILD 0.1.0 (1)
BUNDLE ca.axetechnologies.tether
TEAM 237Q6KHJY6
SIGNED Apple Distribution: Robert Lewis
STATUS Beta — invite only
SHA256 pending first build
Under the Hood

System-level.

Purpose-built from the ground up. Every layer designed for maximum throughput and zero configuration.

Sleep Prevention

IOPMAssertion

Prevents system sleep while beacon is active. Automatic engage/release on beacon state transitions.

Network Events

SCDynamicStore

Real-time monitoring of 8 key paths: Global/IPv4, Global/DNS, interface link state. Darwin notification bus for wifi.link.up/down, bluetooth.state.

Ghost Mode

BluetoothManager

Native system integration for device discovery. Reads device name, address, product model, and battery level via standard observer patterns.

Ghost Mode

MobileGestalt

MGCopyAnswer for DeviceName, ModelNumber, WiFiAddress, BluetoothAddress. Device identity without entitlement gates.

Deep Stack

What we built.

A custom networking engine that coordinates native system frameworks into a unified tethering pipeline.

WiFiPeerToPeer.framework

WiFi Aware / AWDL

WiFiAwarePublisher
WiFiAwareSubscriber
WiFiAwareDataSession
WiFiP2PAWDLState
AWDLServiceDiscoveryManager
AWDLTrafficRegistration

Sharing.framework

Remote Hotspot

SFRemoteHotspotDevice
SFRemoteHotspotInfo
SFRemoteHotspotSession
SFRemoteHotspotCellular
BearerParams

InternetSharing XPC

com.apple.NetworkSharing

create client
start service
create interface
add port forwarding
NAT64 / NAT66
PF anchor rules

PacketFilter.framework

NAT Engine

PFUserCreate, PFUserBeginRules, PFUserCommitRules, PFUserAddRule. Transaction-model firewall programming for network address translation.

MultipeerConnectivity

Mesh Transport

Bluetooth + WiFi Direct multiplex. MCSession with AES-128 encryption. Resource transfer with per-peer progress tracking.