Fwd: port forwarder

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2.8
580 reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Fwd lets you use your Android device to forward ports over a tethered connection, perfect for hosting servers or opening your NAT type for gaming. This app allows you to use your Android device as a gateway to a webserver, media server or game server (just to name a few).

Features:
• Create and remove port forwarding rules
• Port forward through TCP, UDP or both at the same time
• Forward from every available network adapter on your device
• User friendly UI lets you easily manage rules
• Import and Export rules
• Get help through a fully featured support page

Fwd Homepage
Fwd Support Site

This app does not have access to privileged ports below 1024, and we do not support forwarding from port ranges.
Updated on
29 Apr 2018

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Ratings and reviews

2.8
557 reviews
Robert Blankenship
25 February 2023
Works! Your phone is the router. You connect it to a device, which is the server, via USB. The client (some other device) can connect to the server using the IP address of the phone. This app creates a forwarding rule from router to server, pointing to the IP and port of the server within the USB Tether network. Adding another rule from Home Wifi to Phone allows external connection. I noticed one bug. You must restart your phone if the server IP changes. Restarting the rule doesn't work.
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A Google user
10 April 2019
i like the app, does what it promises, but please for the love of all that is holy, put in logging! this thing crashes often and i have no idea why, i can't see what it was handling when it crashed, am i being attacked from outside the network? is the app buggy? did my phone just decide to stop trying? i have no means to determine the cause. and sure, using it to route your webserver through your phone to the phone because your phone is serving as your wireless adaptor is probably an unusual use case, but the app crashing and wanting to get an idea of why is not.
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A Google user
30 July 2019
This app is very useless, but easy to use at the same time. It couldn't open any port and forward for me through my USB Ethernet neither could it even do the forwarding through WiFi. Nonetheless, it does have a user friendly interface, but doesn't have the ability to forward ports in real time especially if the forwarding is done through Mobile Network. Nonetheless, I would recommend you open and forward a port through the netcat software instead of using this software.
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What's new

Fixed bug with forwarding multiple rules

Version 1.5:
- Ability to Import and Export rules within Settings
- Adaptive Icon
- Added RTL support
- Stability improvements