Orbot: Tor for Android brings Tor-powered privacy to Android, enabling any app to route traffic through a multi-hop network for stronger anonymity. As an open-source project from The Guardian Project, it remains a widely adopted privacy tool with ongoing updates. 10,000,000+ total downloads and 100K in the last 30 days underline its growing reach.
Pros & Cons
App-wide privacy via Tor routing for all apps
Open-source and community-driven development
App-wide VPN/proxy capability for enhanced privacy
Ongoing privacy enhancements, including DNS tunneling and stability updates
Tor-based routing may introduce higher latency compared to direct VPNs, as noted in the description.
DNS tunneling availability is location-dependent and not guaranteed in all regions.
Some users may prefer faster, more direct proxy solutions offered by competitors.
About Orbot: Tor for Android
Orbot: Tor for Android is a communication app developed by The Tor Project.
Download Statistics
Orbot: Tor for Android has been downloaded 47 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 100 thousand times. It is ranked in the top 100 communication apps.
User Ratings
Orbot: Tor for Android is rated 3.99 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 190 thousand ratings.
App Information
Orbot: Tor for Android is FREE to download. The APK download size is 52.09 MB. The latest version available is 17.9.2-RC-1-tor-0.4.9.5.1-1-g5efd657a1. The last update was on March 17, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Orbot: Tor for Android requires Android 7.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play August 2010.
Description
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: 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
Recent changes: - updated to latest Tor 0.4.9.5 with stability improvements - new support for DNS Tunneling in some highly filtered locations - improved guidance for when "Kindness Mode" is helpful - many user interface improvements and bug fixes
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Can we get the "connected" in kindness mode? Like how it's in the snowflake browser extension. When someone is connected currently, it tells us. I would love to have it in the app as I would not like to turn of kindness mode when someone is connected at the moment. Of course Orbit tells us when someone gets connected by showing notification of it, but I wish to know when no one is connected as well. Thank you.
★★★★★Yasamin Karimi· Feb 4, 2026
Hello, I don't know what to say, I'm from Iran. You know we are under severe filtering and no VPN works. The internet is under the most severe filtering, google Play was filtered and even browsers didn't work. I was shocked when Orbit connected. It's not very fast, but that's good too. I don't know how to thank you. It's amazing.
★★★★★Spot ꔷ͜ꔷ· May 28, 2026
Connected on Iran Tehran Wrangell, but slow speed!.
★★★★☆B· May 14, 2026
It's okay. Like others have said, this app seemingly stops mid-use and the flow of bandwidth is usually slow. I think there needs to be some obvious bug fixes, a user guide built into the app with some basics know-hows and a rebranding. How about "Orbit: Tor VPN" it tells users it's a VPN immediately. Until then, there are better, free VPN apps to use. Hopefully people start updating this app. EDIT: Thanks for listening! Descriptions are in app, and it streams 720 video with minimal buffering! 4/5
★☆☆☆☆Jacki Motopas· Feb 2, 2026
I didn't open or use the app in the last month, but still I see now the app connected to internet every day and used 47 MB of data "in foreground" and I see the app "active for 10 hrs" even if I never opened or used the app in the month at all! Why? 🤦♂️😲
★☆☆☆☆Emery Hayward· Feb 2, 2026
Redit I tried other apps none of them will work as it cause them to malfunction and break the app and cause the to become corrupt data then I have to do a complete hard data reset non-stop back to default settings to fix it, and then I lose everything on my phone this is very irritated, so I am switching back to proton VPN as it works on all devices with any issues it failed to do like it say, so I consider this a scam bait
★★☆☆☆Aryan Abdolahi Serajzadeh· Apr 26, 2026
Dns tunnel doesn't work in Iran. You need to develop it much further!!!
★★☆☆☆Eric Jonathan Martin· Feb 13, 2026
Kindness mode absolutely drained my battery. Background usage over 9 hours ate through 70% of my battery. Love the idea of it, but I can't always have my phone attached to a charger all day.
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Orbot: Tor for Android is requesting 16 permissions and is using 46 libraries.
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Trust & Safety: Orbot requests a broad set of permissions, including ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, INTERNET, CAMERA, FOREGROUND_SERVICE (with multiple foreground service-related permissions), WAKE_LOCK, and other system-level access. It is open-source (Guardian Project) with transparent source code available, providing visibility into its security model and ongoing development.
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