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fast, efficient, reliable connections

Iroh is a modular networking stack for building applications that work everywhere.

Trusted at scale by the world's most innovative teams

Delta Chat uses iroh to power in-chat apps for hundreds of thousands of devices around the world, even when internet access is precarious.

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Connect any two devices on the planet

Iroh gives you an API for dialing by public key. You say “connect to that phone”, iroh will find & maintain the fastest connection for you, regardless of where it is.

“In stark contrast to other p2p & dweb technologies we've played with - which are exciting due to their implications for the future - Iroh brought instant gains in our present."

- weird.one

Vibrant ecosystem of developers

Open source ready-made, composable protocols are built on top of iroh.
Mix & match to get the feature set you need.

Modular toolkit

Iroh provides a reliable connectivity API for building systems that reach any device, anywhere. The rest is up to you.

Protocol Docs

Continuously Measured

All commits to iroh's main branch run through a growing set of simulations & tests

Iroh Perf Site

Real World Use

Iroh is running in production on millions of devices, on all major platforms.

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