Adding your first connection

What you need

A WireGuard configuration, issued by the server you want to reach — a router, a firewall, a home server, or a machine someone administers for you. Paart is a client: it cannot create one for you.

It arrives in one of two shapes, and on the Mac you can also paste one straight in:

• A .conf file in standard wg-quick format. A file that works in another client works here.
• A QR code, which most server interfaces can display. Same text as the file, encoded as an image.

What is inside one

[Interface]
PrivateKey = <your private key>
Address = 10.0.0.2/32
DNS = 10.0.0.1

[Peer]
PublicKey = <the server's public key>
Endpoint = vpn.example.com:51820
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.0/24

Two lines deserve attention.

PrivateKey is your secret — the credential, not a setting. Anyone holding it can be you on that network. See Keeping your private key safe.

AllowedIPs decides what travels through the tunnel. 0.0.0.0/0 sends everything; a narrower range sends only what matches. See DNS, routing and split tunnelling.

Importing it

Import the file or scan the code. The system asks you to allow Paart to add a VPN configuration — on iPhone, iPad and Mac alike. You grant it once, and Apple requires it of every VPN app without exception.

If sync stops after a second connection

That is the free tier behaving as designed, and nothing has been lost.

Sync runs on the free tier while you have one connection. Import a second and it stops for as long as there is more than one. Nothing else changes: advanced networking stays on your Free connection, and the kill switch keeps working on every connection. Remove the extras and sync can run again: press Synchronise Now. Paart Pro syncs the whole set, however many you keep.

Prefer the QR code

A code is scanned once and leaves nothing behind. A .conf file sent by email or chat sits in that mailbox indefinitely, private key included — and mailboxes are copied, backed up and synchronised to places you did not choose.