With its native look & feel, Passepartout focuses on ease of use. It does so by stripping the .ovpn flags that are today obsolete or rarely used. With good approximation, it mimics the most relevant features you will find in OpenVPN 2.4.x.
Trust cellular or Wi-Fi networks to fine-grain your connectivity. You can then choose to retain a VPN connection when entering a trusted network, or prevent it completely.
Keeping the VPN active in the background provides smoother operation, but may be tough for the battery. You might want to use this feature if you're concerned about battery life. When the device goes to sleep, the VPN will disconnect to then reconnect on device wake-up.
Passepartout is a VPN client and does absolutely nothing else without your consent. The providers infrastructures are obtained via a [static GitHub API][app-api] only and only if you manually refresh them.
In preset mode, you can pick pre-resolved IPv4 endpoints when DNS is problematic.
### Import .ovpn profiles
Passepartout can import .ovpn configuration files. This way you can fine-tune encryption without tweaking and reimporting a new configuration. Below are a few limitations worth mentioning.
Assuming you have a [working CocoaPods environment][dep-cocoapods], setting up the app workspace only requires installing the pod dependencies:
$ pod install
After that, open `Passepartout.xcworkspace` in Xcode and run the `Passepartout-iOS` target.
For the VPN to work properly, the app requires:
- _App Groups_ and _Keychain Sharing_ capabilities
- App IDs with _Packet Tunnel_ entitlements
both in the main app and the tunnel extension target.
## License
This project is licensed under the [GPLv3][license-content].
### Contributing
By contributing to this project you are agreeing to the terms stated in the [Contributor License Agreement (CLA)][contrib-cla]. For more details please see [CONTRIBUTING][contrib-readme].
## Credits
The logo is taken from the awesome Circle Icons set by Nick Roach.
Passepartout is a VPN client based on independent work. As such, the developer -while making his best efforts to avoid it- takes no responsibility about any damage caused by the use of this software.
Additionally, the developer takes no responsibility about data usage, monitoring, logging etc. by the servers you connect to. Passepartout is not even involved in the above choices, as they're part of server-side policies.
For more information about data usage by third parties, please review the privacy policy of your VPN provider.
