Orbot: Tor for Android v17.7.1-RC-1-tor-0.4.8.21-1-g443dbb07
The Tor ProjectAbout this app
Developer Description
Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.
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: 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
What's New
- Big update to icon and main screen... Orbie is back!
- Small improvement to app manager and settings
- updated translations
Version Information
- Version
- 17.7.1-RC-1-tor-0.4.8.21-1-g443dbb07
- Downloads
- 10M+
- Updated on
- Dec 8, 2025
- Released
- Aug 13, 2010
- Requires
- Android 7.0
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Orbot: Tor for Android - Google Play Rankings
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#46 in Top Free Communication in United States
#22 in Top Free Communication in Germany
#22 in Top Free Communication in Netherlands
#46 in Top Free Communication in Canada
Orbot: Tor for Android users say on Google Play
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
Unfortunately this app doesn't work properly in Iran . It connects but doesn't works! I use android 13 . I also use tor browser in my smart phone and it works pretty nice but i don't know why orbot isn't working. Please help. Thank you
12/23/25 Due to Google/Android/Amazon breaking all their apps on purpose in very wary of updating a good app. According to reviews, Orbot is going this way? I see that you have not responded to any of these negative reviews. Please respond. I can't update until you explain. Old Review, Not Current: Your most recent work seems to have corrected the Orbot startup problem. Thanks for all the hard work and timely updates!
You ruined the app. You don't need to release an update when it isn't necessary. It used to work fine. Now it just hangs and crashes without connecting. Fix it plz.
Insecure, doesn't keep up with Tor updates, and contains known exploitable vulnerabilities. It's a shame you're even offering this app on the Play Store, it's so irresponsible. You're not even keeping the Tor Browser app up-to-date with Firefox ESR security patches. Shame on you. Smartphones are more secure and more commonly used than computers, you should prioritize support for smartphone platforms higher than computer/desktop platforms. You seem to neglect smartphones.
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