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
★ MESSAGE US: Are we missing your favorite feature? Found an annoying bug? We’d love to hear from you! Send us an email: support@guardianproject.info
***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
- update to latest tor 0.4.7.10
- improved snowflake and obfs4 bridge support
- improved share functions for logs
- many, many bugs fixed and stability improved
- latest "Snowflake" bridge support
- latest tor 0.4.7.8 included
- more stable VPN and DNS capabilities
- improved interoperability with F-Droid, RethinkDNS Firewall and other apps
- updated to tor 0.4.6.10
- multiple stability improvements for start/stop, boot and VPN mode
- latest improvements to bridges, including Snowflake
- improved Snowflake proxy mode user experience
- Improve notification display with exit IP, country, and reliable up/down throughput display (bim!)
- Major improvement to VPN reliability through replacing pdnsd daemon with more reliable DNS layer (n8fr8, bim)
- Multiple small fixes, tweaks to startup/shutdown/restart reliability (bim, n8fr8)
- Updates to bridge reliability and resilience
- "Be a snowflake proxy" experimental mode in Settings
tor 0.4.6.9
many fixes related to start/stop, status
improved stability
latest pluggable transports, snowflake update
fix for battery optimization setting for hosted onion services
many other things thanks to @bitmold @eighthave @syphyr and @tladesignz
- removed Meek "Cloud" bridge option due to no longer being supported
- more improvements to Onion V3 service support
- for #441, fixes app lookup for app-based VPN selection
- This release is done in the memory of Karsten Loesing: https://blog.torproject.org/in-memoriam-of-karsten-loesing
Karsten was part of the Tor community for 13 years and an amazing, smart, thoughtful, and gentle person who has touched us all.
- Huge update to Bridges / Pluggable Transport support, with latest Obfs4, Meek and new SNOWFLAKE support added
- Performance and stability improvements for requesting new bridges via Tor's Moat service
- Updated to tor 0.4.4.6
- Major fix for hanging stop/start issue (if you still have problems, please "force stop" or do a fresh install and then try starting again)
- update to Tor Bridge support (more stable and reliable)
- many small user interface and stability fixes
- only show notifications when there is something to show!
- fixes for Onion Service configuration screens
.... and much much more: https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/blob/master/CHANGELOG
- major fix for "no bootstrap" stuck tor issue
- many small UI and crash fixes
- improvement to VPN permission request
- better Bridge Wizard interaction
- Resolved many issues related to startup of Tor and Obfs4/Meek
bridges on Android Q/10
- VPN fixes resolved through unifying 2 background services
(TorVPNService, TorService) into one (OrbotService)
- Update tor to 0.4.2.7 and obfs4proxy to 0.0.12 latest
- Brand new "beta" integrated bridge fetch feature through Tor's MOTE
service (just like in Tor Browser)
* upgrade to latest tor 0.4.2.5
* major fixes for VPN mode
* improvements for LineageOS devices
* return of Orbot notification up/down traffic display
* fixes for Bridge support
* updated to tor 0.4.1.5
- fixes to reliability of VPN mode and handling network restarts
- includes new 64-bit binaries for newer Android devices
- additional app fixes by @bitmold @sisbell @pgerber - thanks!
Fixes crash related to starting a background service
- update Tor to latest v0.3.4.9
- fixes for VPN stability
- tested on Android 8 and 9
- improved and updated translations for many languages
- 30% smaller install (APK) size, under 10MB!
- updated to tor 0.3.3.5 (Onion Services v3 support and more)
- many fixes for tor, pluggable transport binary installation
- No more "Polipo" HTTP server, just using Tor's new built in capability
- improved language selection in app
NEW PERMISSION: Access to "External Storage" is for persisting backup information for onion services.
Full release notes at: https://github.com/n8fr8/orbot/releases/tag/16.0.2-RC-1
- Major update to the user interface!- New wizards for setup and bridge configuration- Improved VPN features- Fixes for Onion/Hidden service configuration crashesand much more...THANKS TO: pgerber, syphyr, Khsed4, BjarniRunar, Unpublished, igortoliveira, goapunk, SpotComms, AkshatAgrawal05, dixidroid, arrase and others for the issues, commits, and PRs
- Updates to Tor 0.3.0.7- New built-in bridges and bridge selection logic- Powerful new Onion (Hidden) Service configuration- NEW OPTIONAL PERMISSION: "Write External Storage" and "Read Phone State" need to support Hidden Services backup and background services. No personal data is read, stored or transmitted.
