SocksTun
SocksTun is a free, open-source privacy app for Android. A simple and lightweight VPN over socks5 proxy (tun2socks). It has 744 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
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About SocksTun
A simple and lightweight VPN over socks5 proxy for Android. It is based on a high-performance and low-overhead tun2socks. Features Redirect TCP connections. Redirect UDP packets. (Fullcone NAT, UDP in UDP/TCP) Simple username/password authentication. Specifying DNS addresses. IPv4/IPv6 dual stack. Global/per-App modes.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds SocksTun 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.
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Is SocksTun free and open source?
Yes. SocksTun's source code is public on GitHub under the MIT 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 SocksTun?
You can install SocksTun from F-Droid (package hev.sockstun); the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: 8.0).
Is SocksTun still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Aug 1, 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.