About
Who you're trusting with $79 and your router.
Fair question — it's the one we'd ask too. So here's the honest version, no marketing fog.
The short story
Ownhearth is built and run by Peter Zheng and a co-founder, operating as Aetheria Sphere LLC (United States). It's a small, deliberately lean company — not a venture-backed app trying to harvest your data. We make money in plain sight: a one-time setup fee, an optional yearly plan if you want us watching your connection, and a small affiliate cut from Amazon on the routers we recommend.
Why it exists
I kept getting shut out of my own bank and brokerage from the wrong side of an ocean — frozen sessions, verification codes texted to a phone that won't ring abroad. The "keep your home IP" services I tried billed me every month and still dropped on hotel Wi-Fi, and when they broke I was stuck. I spent a year building something that doesn't do that: it runs on hardware I own, heals itself when the uplink hiccups, and doesn't put a company in the middle of my traffic. Ownhearth is that, packaged so you don't have to be a network engineer to use it.
What we believe
- • You should own it. Your routers, your keys, your connection. If we vanished tomorrow, your setup keeps working.
- • No milking. Pay once. The yearly plan is optional and cancel-anytime — never a tax for keeping what you bought.
- • We can't see your traffic, on purpose. It flows straight between your two routers. There's nothing for us to log or sell. (See our security page.)
- • Honesty over conversions. If your home internet won't work, our pre-check tells you before you pay. We'd rather lose the sale than sell you a brick.
A real person answers
Support is email, from us — often me. Not a call center, not a chatbot wall. Write support@ownhearth.com and a human replies. And every setup is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.