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Anywherelan

Anywherelan is a free, open-source privacy app for Android. Peer-to-peer mesh VPN to connect your devices directly, no central servers. It has 714 GitHub stars and is released under the MPL-2.0 license, and you can install it from F-Droid.

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About Anywherelan

Anywherelan (awl) is a mesh VPN that lets you connect to any of your devices at the IP level, wherever they are. It works similarly to tinc, direct WireGuard or Tailscale, but fully peer-to-peer — there are no central coordination servers to trust or set up. Your traffic goes directly between your devices. You can also route traffic through a remote device — either per-app as a SOCKS5 proxy, or all of your device's traffic at once as a full-tunnel VPN gateway (exit node). Some use cases Connect to your home or work laptop over RDP/VNC/SSH even when it sits behind NAT, without configuring port forwarding.

Privacy and F-Droid

F-Droid builds Anywherelan from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.

No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.

Screenshots

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Screenshots from the app's F-Droid listing.

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FAQ

Anywherelan FAQ

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Is Anywherelan free and open source?

Yes. Anywherelan's source code is public on GitHub under the MPL-2.0 license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.

How do I install Anywherelan?

You can install Anywherelan from F-Droid (package com.anywherelan.awl); the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v0.20.0).

Is Anywherelan still maintained?

The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 24, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Jul 20, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.