NEWencrypted backup, now live

Your idle laptop
is a data center.

laptopool turns dormant laptops into a global pool of encrypted storage and compute. Share what you are not using and get paid — or back up your devices across the pool for pennies.

$curl -fsSL laptopool.com/install | bash
THIS MONTH ONLINE
$48.20
earned from idle resources
Disk shared
180 GB
CPU hours
312
maria-mbp · linux
storing 14 shards
9,214laptops online/
3.8 PBpooled storage/
$142,900paid to providers/
99.99%shard durability/
41msmedian latency/
9,214laptops online/
3.8 PBpooled storage/
$142,900paid to providers/
99.99%shard durability/
41msmedian latency/
HOW IT WORKS

Three steps. Your machine, your rules.

01

Install in one line

A single curl | bash on macOS or Linux. It runs quietly in the background as an unprivileged service.

02

Set your limits

Choose exactly how much CPU, disk, and bandwidth to share, and when. The pool can never exceed what you allow.

03

Earn or back up

Get paid per GB-hour for idle resources — or use the pool to back up your own devices, encrypted end to end.

FOR PROVIDERS

Your laptop, a side hustle.

Most laptops sit idle 90% of the day. Pool the spare cycles and storage and turn them into passive income — withdraw anytime.

  • Paid per GB-hour and GB-month
  • Withdraw to bank or crypto
  • Pause or stop with one command
Become a provider
FOR EVERYONE

Backups that survive anything.

Back up your devices across thousands of laptops. Everything is encrypted on your machine first — providers only ever hold ciphertext.

  • Client-side encryption, always
  • Erasure-coded across regions
  • Restore from any device
Start a backup
LIVE DASHBOARD

Every shard, watt and dollar — in real time.

See exactly what your machines are doing and earning. Track usage, durability, and payouts with the precision of a financial dashboard.

laptopool.com/dashboard
Earnings (30d)
$1,284
+12.4%
Active nodes
6
+1
Stored
1.9 TB
99.99%
EARNINGS▲ trending up
JanAprAugDec
THE PLATFORM

Built for untrusted machines on the open internet.

Encrypted by default

Data is encrypted on your device. Hosts only ever store ciphertext — they cannot read it.

Works behind any router

NAT-friendly peer-to-peer with relay fallback. No port forwarding, no static IP.

Sandboxed & scoped

Each node runs unprivileged with hard limits. It never touches your personal files.

Pay for what you use

Metered per GB-hour and GB-month. No idle fees, no lock-in, withdraw anytime.

Globally distributed

Shards spread across regions and operators for durability that survives outages.

macOS & Linux

One install, runs as a background service. Windows on the way.

Put your laptop to work.

Join thousands of machines earning from idle resources. Free to start, one line to install.