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strongSwan VPN Client

LivestrongSwan Project1 app · 1.2M installsCommunicationFreeorg.strongswan.android

An easy to use IKEv2/IPsec-based VPN client.

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Total installs
1,219,738
exact · Play shows 1,000,000+
Installs / day
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measured after our second crawl (about a day)
Rating
4.1★
3.6K ratings · 201 reviews
Released
14 Aug 2012
14.2y ago
Last update
30 Oct 2025
v2.6.2 · 11mo ago
Countries
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not checked yet

Install history

exact counter from Google Play
1.2M1.4M1.6M1.8M2M11 Oct12 Oct12 Oct
1.2M1.4M1.6M1.8M2M11 Oct12 Oct12 Oct

Installs per day · last 90 days

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Change timeline

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Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

estimate · charts of 12 Oct

Most downloads likely come from 🇯🇵 Japan (~100%).

  1. Japan100%#175 Top free · Communication

Estimated from top-chart positions weighted by each country’s Google Play market size. Countries where the app is not in a chart are not shown, so small markets may be missing.

Top chart positions

as of 12 Oct
ChartCountryRankChange
Trending · Communication JP · 11 Oct#49—
Top free · Communication JP#175▼ 4

App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • No data shared with third parties
  • No data collected

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

5 in 3 groups
3 Sensitive0 Notable2 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
  • Show its own windows or bubbles on top of other apps you are using
Photos/Media/FilesSensitive1

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
StorageSensitive1

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
OtherSensitive3

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Show its own windows or bubbles on top of other apps you are usingdraw over other apps · SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
Official Android port of the popular strongSwan VPN solution. # FEATURES AND LIMITATIONS # * Uses the VpnService API featured by Android 4+. Devices by some manufacturers seem to lack support for this - strongSwan VPN Client won't work on these devices! * Uses the IKEv2 key exchange protocol * Uses IPsec for data traffic * Full support for changed connectivity and mobility through MOBIKE (or reauthentication) * Supports username/password EAP authentication (namely EAP-MSCHAPv2, EAP-MD5 and EAP-GTC) as well as RSA/ECDSA private key/certificate authentication to authenticate users, EAP-TLS with client certificates is also supported * Combined RSA/ECDSA and EAP authentication is supported by using two authentication rounds as defined in RFC 4739 * VPN server certificates are verified against the CA certificates pre-installed or installed by the user on the system. The CA or server certificates used to authenticate the server can also be imported directly into the app. * IKEv2 fragmentation is supported if the VPN server supports it (strongSwan does so since 5.2.1) * Split-tunneling allows sending only certain traffic through the VPN and/or excluding specific traffic from it * Per-app VPN allows limiting the VPN connection to specific apps, or exclude them from using it * The IPsec implementation currently supports the AES-CBC, AES-GCM, ChaCha20/Poly1305 and SHA1/SHA2 algorithms * Passwords are currently stored as cleartext in the database (only if stored with a profile) * VPN profiles may be imported from files * Supports managed configurations via enterprise mobility management (EMM) Details and a changelog can be found on our docs: https://docs.strongswan.org/docs/latest/os/androidVpnClient.html # PERMISSIONS # * READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Allows importing VPN profiles and CA certificates from external storage on some Android versions * QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES: Required on Android 11+ to select apps to ex-/include in VPN profiles and the optional EAP-TNC use case # EXAMPLE SERVER CONFIGURATION # Example server configurations may be found in our docs: https://docs.strongswan.org/docs/latest/os/androidVpnClient.html#_server_configuration Please note that the host name (or IP address) configured with a VPN profile in the app *must be* contained in the server certificate as subjectAltName extension. # FEEDBACK # Please post bug reports and feature requests via GitHub: https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/issues/new/choose If you do so, please include information about your device (manufacturer, model, OS version etc.). The log file written by the key exchange service can be sent directly from within the application.

What's new

# 2.6.2 # - Fix edge-to-edge layout issues with settings and app selection # 2.6.1 # - Update OpenSSL to support ML-KEM (requires explicit configuration in proposals) - Fix vulnerability in eap-mschapv2 plugin - Fix filename when exporting the log # 2.6.0 # - Allow preselecting a user certificate via alias in managed profiles - Allow selecting a user certificate for managed profiles - Fix reading split-tunneling settings in managed profiles - Adapt to edge-to-edge display

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