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.

★ Traffic Privacy
Encrypted traffic from any app, through the Tor network, gives you the highest standard of security and privacy.

★ Stop Snooping
No extra eyes know what apps you are using, and when, or can stop you from using them.

★ No History
No central logging of your traffic history or IP address by your network operator and app servers.

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 official Tor VPN for Android. Orbot bounces your encrypted traffic several times through computers around the world, instead of connecting you directly like traditional 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 installed app can use Tor via the Orbot VPN feature, or if it has a proxy feature, using the settings found here: https://goo.gl/2OA1y Use Orbot with Twitter, or try private web searching with DuckDuckGo: https://goo.gl/lgh1p
★ 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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★ 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

Won't even start! I've tried clicking the "Start VPN" button how many times over, and got nothing. Then the screen flashed and CLOSED THE APP!!! I reopened it, it gave me a screen showing it was TRYING to connect. But then it cancelled the connection attempt and closed the app again. Dealt with that same scenario 7 different times in a timespan of 10 minutes or less. Even the regular ToR browser is better than this junk.

During the recent days, it is the second time for me to update since the last stable version. It still died intermittently but better than last update. Sometimes it doesn't work completely. And it doesn't disappear from the "recent using app" screen. Also, the Tor icon on notification bar doesn't display the flow signal, so I can't be sure that Tor is working. Would you please release a better and stable version? Thanks.

When it works, its great. The first start after install goes fine, as long as I leave it running and wifi stays connected. As soon as it stops or drops the wifi signal, it hangs at the "starting" screen. The only thing I've found to fix it is reinstalling. Have tried force stopping and restarting the phone to no avail. Have also tried switching identities and servers.

What's new

update to tor 0.4.8.12
update to latest pluggable transports (snowflake, lyrebird)
add new and updated translations