# Anywherelan (open-source privacy app)

> 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 696 GitHub stars and is released under the MPL-2.0 license, and you can install it from F-Droid.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/anywherelan/awl |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Other |
| GitHub stars | 696 |
| License | MPL-2.0 (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/com.anywherelan.awl/ (package com.anywherelan.awl) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | not linked |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | https://anywherelan.com/ |
| Official | no |
| Category | Privacy, ad-blocking & VPN |
| Latest release | v0.19.0 (Jul 18, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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