Orbot: Tor for Android
Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.
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Android App Analysis and Review: Orbot: Tor for Android, Developed by The Tor Project. Listed in Communication Category. Current Version Is 17.7.0-RC-1-tor-0.4.8.19, Updated On 22/10/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Orbot: Tor for Android. Achieved Over 42 million Installs. Orbot: Tor for Android Currently Has 198 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.0 Stars
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.
***We Love Feedback***
★ 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
★ 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
We are currently offering version 17.7.0-RC-1-tor-0.4.8.19. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.
We have more than 2000+ available devices for Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola, LG, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Tablet ... with so many options, it’s easy for you to choose games or software that fit your device.
It can come in handy if there are any country restrictions or any restrictions from the side of your device on the Google App Store.
What's New
- updated to tor 0.4.8.19
- new, improved VPN code (hev-socks)
- latest updated snowflake, lyrebird pluggable transports
- new, improved VPN code (hev-socks)
- latest updated snowflake, lyrebird pluggable transports
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Recent Comments
Anonymous Doggo
The app won't open, it'll open to a blank screen, then close immediately. I'll have to do this 5-6 times before I can turn it off due to random websites like Netflix or smaller sites like YouTube saying I'm under strange geo-restriction that shouldn't be there, even when switching locations. Some sites somehow know my location after clearing all cache, website data, etc, etc, and showing vpn is connected, with settings showing apps it's to work with are set correctly. It work then it may not
Luxy
The Orbot app is a good app for privacy. I used to have a problem with it randomly not fully connecting correctly. However I found removing the padding that saves on mobile data and battery turning those off in this app and mobile data limit and mobile data limit warning in the phone settings fixed it. I turn on extra padding for security. The settings in this app can be a bit confusing at first and it also takes a bit to connect fully but once it does its fine. overall 8/10
Сумерка
I love the concept, but you absolutely butchered the execution. Out of all bugs the most annoying one is it randomly dying in the background, and when you restart it, it can't figure out how to connect again, infinitely loading and forcing you to manually stop it. And no, another redesign will not help fix the problem. I live in Russia where everything either bans me for being russian or is already banned by the government, so this being one of the only options to avoid it is quite sad to me.
Ify Okoi
Have always been happy to use orbot app, however, since downloading the latest version in July 2025 I cannot get it to work. Whenever I open the app and tap the screen in order to connect, it states that it is connecting, but then just shuts down. Have tried clearing the app cache and storage, but to no avail. The following have been fruitless too: restarting phone, uninstall and reinstall app - even turning phone off and back on again made no difference.This is not good.
Joseph
Terrible app. Only thing that works is the vpn. It barely goes faster than 1 kb. Literally you're lucky if you have 1 kb consistently. In my experience with this app, the speed and everything stays at 0. I wouldn't recommend. Completely awful.
OpenSauce
Does what you'd expect, but absolutely destroys your battery life for whatever reason, even when you're not using any apps connected to it. In my phone's battery usage chart, Orbot is responsible for 71% of my battery usage today despite never even opening any of the apps I selected.
Ernest Philyaw
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.🫤
Israel M
I have been using it with no problems! I feel I should edit my last rating. But it's not connecting to TOR now! I ask how to connect and it tells me so I do it and it just goes to home screen and without any connection! What's the problem with it? Please respond? I changed my rating from a 1 to a 5. I forgot I left such a bad rating! I do apologize. It has worked fine up till recently! Please respond? IT WON'T TURN ON! IT KEEPS CRASHING! 😡