Tailscale

Tailscale Inc.

About this app

Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®, Tailscale is networking technology that enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure. Tailscale brings identity to the network layer, so that you can control access based on user identity, not only IP address. This gives you the power to intuitively and flexibly define which users should have access to which services based on existing user identities, as well as groups, services, and subnet ranges.

Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources.

Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Deploy a zero-config VPN, securely access resources on any infrastructure, unlock developer workflow networking, and modernize Enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale.

Tailscale is hardware-agnostic—so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy it without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture.

Tailscale works with 100+ technology integrations and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of operating system platforms, including Apple macOS, iOS, and tvOS, Windows, Linux, and Android.

Ratings and reviews

Couldn't be easier to set up and access. However, I wish that the split tunneling was an opt in option, not an opt out. or let us choose what mode (include or exclude). or use a list, instead of check boxes. if I am to set this up for a family member, it would be great to set them up with all the apps necessary to access our services, set up only those apps to use the railnet, then just turn on the connection and that's it. instead, you have to select all the apps to NOT use the tailnet.

I've been a long-time user of Tailscale and absolutely love everything about it. The only issue I’ve encountered is on Android—when switching automatically between 5G data and Wi-Fi, I often get a "DNS not available" error. Interestingly, this problem doesn’t occur on my iOS devices. I hope this can be addressed in a future update.

I used manual Wireguard configuration for quite a while, but recently I've switched to Tailscale and it is so much easier that it's not even funny. I don't have to worry about NATs or adding peers or anything. It simplifies it to the point of absurdity without removing basically any power. One thing, though: Please add info to the sticky notification to tell me that my phone is connected to an exit node. That would be very useful.

What’s new

Improvements to Tailscale SSH and Taildrive