Core feature — iOS · Android · macOS · Windows
The Browser feature in AutoYou is an HTTP proxy tunneled through your encrypted WebRTC connection. Every request travels to your computer, which fetches the page and sends it back. Websites see your computer's IP — not your phone's. No VPN. No open ports. No router configuration.
This isn't a VPN. AutoYou doesn't route all your phone's traffic through your computer. The Browser tab is a targeted HTTP proxy — only the requests you make inside it go through your machine. Everything else on your phone (other apps, background traffic) is unaffected.
Under the hood
The AutoYou browser proxy is straightforward by design. Here's exactly what happens when you type a URL or tap a link.
This works for standard HTML pages, streaming responses (Server-Sent Events), and binary downloads like files and images. SSE and WebSocket connections work too, which is how AI agent dashboards with live updates stay responsive.
What becomes accessible
The browser proxy gives you access to two very different things at once: the entire public web (through your computer's IP), and anything running locally on your machine that you'd never normally reach from your phone.
The public web
Any URL you open in the Browser tab is fetched by your computer. Websites see your home or office IP address. Content that's geo-restricted to your location is accessible exactly as if you were sitting at your desk. No VPN subscription. No separate app.
Local services
Any web service running on your computer — a React app, a Grafana
dashboard, a Jupyter notebook, a home automation panel, a local API —
is reachable by navigating to localhost:PORT in the Browser
tab. It works from anywhere in the world, without opening a single
port on your router.
AI agent frontends
AutoYou's built-in AI agents each have a web frontend hosted on your computer. The Browser tab connects you to those UIs from anywhere — browse your Notes, view your Official Page feed, manage your agent settings — all through the encrypted P2P connection.
Built-in shortcut
The AutoYou server hosts web frontends for each of its AI agents. Instead of typing a URL, you can jump straight to them.
On mobile
In the Chat tab, the Open Agent Websites button takes you directly to the index of all AI agent frontends hosted on your server. From there you can browse into Notes, the Official Page feed, the Admin panel, or any custom agent UI you've created — all served through the encrypted proxy.
The mobile browser renders these as full web views. Dashboards with live updates, forms, and navigation all work because the proxy handles streaming and stateful connections.
On desktop
In the AutoYou desktop client (macOS & Windows), the Open Agent Websites button opens your system browser to the agent frontends page — served locally at the client's web proxy port. And Open Browser opens the proxy root, where you can navigate freely to any URL through your server connection.
These controls become available as soon as the desktop client is connected. They're disabled when no server connection is active.
macOS & Windows
The AutoYou desktop client runs on macOS and Windows and provides the same encrypted server connection as the mobile app. Browser access works differently on desktop — instead of an in-app browser view, the client exposes a local web proxy and hands off to your system browser.
Open Browser
Clicking Open Browser in the desktop client launches your default system browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) and navigates it to the local proxy root. From there you can browse freely — any request goes through your AutoYou server connection, just as on mobile.
Open Agent Websites
Open Agent Websites takes you directly to the agent
frontends index on your server — bypassing the need to type a
URL. This button is only enabled when connected to a full AutoYou
server (not an autoyou_lib standalone instance without
agent frontends configured).
Configurable port
The desktop client's local web proxy port is configurable — the
default is 8076, but you can change it in the connection
settings if that port is already in use on your machine. The proxy
only runs while the client is connected to a server.
The AutoYou browser proxy is end-to-end. Your phone sends requests over the encrypted WebRTC DataChannel to your computer, and your computer makes the outbound web request. AutoYou's servers never see the URLs you visit, the pages you load, or any response content. The cloud has no role in this pipeline.
When you access a local service — a dashboard running on
localhost:3000, for example — that traffic never leaves
your machine at all. It travels from your phone over the P2P tunnel to your
computer, and your computer hits its own local port. Nothing is exposed to
the internet.
Get connected
Download the AutoYou app or desktop client, start your server, and pair once. The Browser tab is ready immediately. Local services, agent frontends, and the full web — all through your encrypted connection. Free. No account needed.
