# Aether GUI (open-source security and privacy app)

> Aether GUI is a free, open-source security and privacy app for Windows, macOS and Linux. One-click desktop GUI for the Aether censorship-circumvention tunnel — Tauri v2, React 19, Rust. It has 1,030 GitHub stars and is released under the AGPL-3.0 license.

A one-click desktop GUI for Aether, a censorship-circumvention tunnel built for heavily restricted networks. Aether itself is a terminal tool: it discovers a working route out, establishes an encrypted tunnel, and exposes a local SOCKS5 proxy. Aether-GUI wraps that terminal tool in a small, animated desktop app so you don't have to touch a command line to use it — press Connect, and everything else (identity provisioning, route discovery, prompt answering) happens automatically in the background.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/MatinSenPai/Aether-GUI |
| Platforms | Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 1,030 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | Rust |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Password managers, encryption & privacy |
| Latest release | v0.8.0 (Oct 4, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 4, 2026 |

## Install

Download a build for your system from the project's releases (https://github.com/MatinSenPai/Aether-GUI/releases) or website, or build it from source by following the README.

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