App Intel

Orbot: Tor for Android Live

The Tor Project4 apps · 101.7M installsCommunicationFreeorg.torproject.android

Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.

Total installs
47,372,125
exact · Play shows 10,000,000+
Installs / day
—
measured after our second crawl (about a day)
Rating
4.0★
197.5K ratings · 8.4K reviews
Released
13 Aug 2010
16.2y ago
Last update
1 Oct 2026
v17.9.6-RC-1-tor-0.4.9.13 · 9d ago
Countries
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not checked yet

Install history

exact counter from Google Play
46.3M47.2M48.1M49.1M50M10 Oct11 Oct11 Oct

Installs per day · last 30 days

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Change timeline

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

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 10 Oct

Most downloads likely come from 🇷🇺 Russia (~48%), out of 10 countries where it is charted.

  1. Russia48%#74 Top free · Communication
  2. Germany12%#137 Top free · Communication
  3. United Kingdom8.9%#177 Top free · Communication
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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 10 Oct
ChartCountryRankChange
Top free · Communication FI#71—
Top free · Communication RU#74—
Top free · Communication CA#104—
Top free · Communication AU#131—
Top free · Communication NL#133—
Top free · Communication DE#137—
Top free · Communication UA#169—
Top free · Communication GB#177—
Top free · Communication PL#190—
Top free · Communication FR#193—

Permissions

5 in 3 groups
1 Sensitive1 Notable3 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Use your camera to take photos and record videos
CameraSensitive1

Access to your camera to take photos and record video

  • Use your camera to take photos and record videostake pictures and videos · CAMERA
Wi-Fi connection informationRoutine1

Access to details about Wi-Fi networks your device sees or uses

  • See whether Wi-Fi is on and details of the network you are connected toview Wi-Fi connections · ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
OtherNotable3

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

  • Start itself automatically as soon as your phone finishes turning onrun at startup · RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
  • 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
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

What's new

- Tor 0.4.9.13 - Security fixes from our recent independent audit - Other apps can no longer start Orbot - Redesigned Kindness Mode setup, and it now restarts reliably if Android stops it - Snowflake proxy fixes; UPnP mappings survive restarts - Custom bridge fixes, including unusual spacing - Updated Tor, built-in bridges and GeoIP data - Proxy port, IPv6 and app routing fixes - Ukraine added to exit countries - Translation updates, including new Swahili

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