Orbot: Tor for Android

4.2
198K reviews
10M+
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PEGI 3
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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.

***We Love Feedback***
★ 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: [email protected]

***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
Updated on
Jul 9, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
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Ratings and reviews

4.1
186K reviews
Self
December 26, 2024
Had to uninstall. Doesn't allow most apps or Firefox to connect. *After update, most apps don't work when using the VPN while most did with the previous version. Can't see what country the relay is in, which is absolutely needed since several countries don't allow connected apps to work and I would simply change the identity. This update really just doesn't work.
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Ernest Philyaw
July 21, 2025
Had to uninstall. This app does nothing. opened the app, and Tor says best direct connect. Tapped connect, and nothing happened. checked the logs, and it's blank. Thought there would be something in the logs, if it actually connected, but there is nothing.🫤
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Armin M
July 16, 2025
In countries with severe internet censorship, Tor is the best solution, and having an Android Tor VPN client app is extremely useful. however, Orbot is very rarely updated and there are issues that have been around for a long time. for example the "turn tor off" option never works properly and causes the app to crash several times when you try to reconnect after using it. this crashing issue also sometimes happens randomly. fixing this can save us a lot of time.
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What’s new

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