Orbot: Tor for Android

The Tor Project

About this app

Orbot is a free VPN and proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.

Orbot is the only app that creates a truly private internet connection. As the New York Times writes, “when a communication arrives from Tor, you can never know where or whom it’s from.”

Tor won the 2012 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Award.

★ ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES: Orbot is the safest way to use the Internet on Android. Period. Orbot bounces your encrypted traffic several times through computers around the world, instead of connecting you directly like other VPNs and proxies. This process takes a little longer, but the strongest privacy and identity protection available is worth the wait.
★ PRIVACY FOR APPS: Any app can be routed over Tor via the Orbot VPN feature
★ PRIVACY FOR EVERYONE: Orbot prevents someone watching your connection from knowing what apps you are using or websites you visit. All anyone monitoring your network traffic can see is that you're using Tor.

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★ LEARN MORE: Learn more about Orbot and get involved at https://orbot.app
★ ABOUT US: Guardian Project is a group of developers that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow.
★ OPEN-SOURCE: Orbot is free software. Take a look at our source code, or join the community to make it better: https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot
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***Disclaimer***
Guardian Project makes apps that are designed to protect your security and anonymity. The protocols that we use are widely regarded as the state of the art in security technology. While we are constantly upgrading our software to combat the latest threats and eliminate bugs, no technology is 100% foolproof. For maximum security and anonymity users must utilize best practices to keep themselves safe. You can find a good introductory guide to these topics at https://securityinabox.org

Ratings and reviews

Updated recently from a pretty old version, and almost instantly regreted it. Don't know what's the case here, but old version was coming through all the recent blocks in Russia almost instantly, choosing and connecting through a bridge that actually worked - but an updated one gets stuck and can't connect like 99% of the time, effectively making the app worthless... Now I need to go and serch for a version from 2018s.

It says that it has connected when it actually hasn't. Also, even when turned off, it keeps showing a permanent notification. If you click on it, including by accident, it will open the app AND KICK whichever other VPN that was active at the time. And the only way to dispose of that dang notification is to force-stop the app. Also, you cannot see the bridges settings without first turning them off... At the same time, Tor Browser works for me fairly well.

Auto launches and I can't find any settings to disable the unwanted feature. This is needlessly slowing my connection while at trusted locations and makes the app more of a frustrating headache than anything. Uninstalling as I refuse to hand over control of my device to an app that lacks any reasonable settings. It's 2026 and options are standard, figure it out.

What’s new

- Updated to Tor 0.4.9.11 and Snowflake 2.14.1
- Reworked Kindness Mode with a clearer proxy quality check and live NAT type
- Added Android 17 support, including permission handling for "open proxy on all interfaces"
- More accurate connection progress that persists when you rotate your device
- Fixed logs clearing on rotation, a startup crash, and boot auto-start; updated bridges and translations