Turning on a VPN is always a painful experience on an iOS device due to the deep nested menus. This App installs a Today Widget into Notification Center which make it possible to turn on a VPN in about 3 seconds(depends on the connection speed). Furthermore, by turning on On Demand feature, the VPN could be automatically connected when you visit any domain specified in this App.

• An iPhone running iOS 8.1
• An IPSec IKEv1 / IKEv2 VPN(create yours with my Ansible Playbook or deploy on DigitalOcean)
• Xcode 6.1.1
• An Apple iOS developer account

To compile the project, you may temporarily modify the bundle_id after adding yours into the Apple Developer Center. And then activate the following capabilities of both the container App and the widget:

1. Personal VPN
2. Keychain Sharing
3. App Groups

Meanwhile, provisioning profiles are required for testing on iPhone.

After creating a VPN configuration you can activate the Today Widget in Notification Center, then turn on the VPN by tapping the switch. You may be asked to allow the installation of a VPN profile for the first time.

Issues and roadmap are listed here.

This project follows the gitflow workflow. You'd better create a branch called feature/sth_improved before any major improvements. Meanwhile minor bug fixes are welcomed in the develop branch.

VPN service providers may list a link for their customers to efficiently add server configurations in VPN On. By register the vpnon:// protocol, it supports the following URL scheme:

vpnon://{account}:{password}@{server}/?title={title}&group={group}&secret={secret}&alwayson=[yes|no]&ikev2=[yes|no]&certificate={certificate}

server and title are required, other fields are optional. The following URLs are valid:

• vpnon://jony:[email protected]/?title=Apple&group=Design&secret=iPhone

• vpnon://apple.com/?title=Apple

• vpnon://[email protected]/?title=Google&group=devops

• vpnon://[email protected]/?title=Yahoo&alwayson=no

• vpnon://jony:[email protected]/?title=Twitter&ikev2=yes

• vpnon://jony:[email protected]/?title=GitHub&ikev2=yes&certificate=https://github.com/

Although this App is 100% open-sourced, it may takes about 20~60 minutes to configure the environment. I'd appreciate if you could buy VPN On from App Store.

BTW. I'm a coffee addict, buy me a coffee via PayPal or Alipay: [email protected]

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Note: I set the optimization level of VPNOnKit to None in order to read Keychain properly due to an issue of Swift.

Lex Tang (@lexrus on Twitter)

This code is distributed under the terms and conditions of the MIT license.