You will still be able to use Orbot to route the traffic of all your other apps on Android over Tor. With the development of Tor Browser for Android, Orfox will be sunsetted around the time of our stable release, expected in early 2019. We're grateful to the Guardian Project for their work developing Orfox, a mobile browser which routes your traffic over the Tor network. With Tor Browser for Android, you are free to access sites your local internet service provider may have blocked. Watch this animation to learn more about how it works. The network is comprised of thousands of volunteer-run servers known as Tor relays. When you use Tor Browser for Android, your traffic is relayed and encrypted three times as it passes over the Tor network. Tor aims to make all users look the same, so Tor Browser for Android makes it difficult for you to be fingerprinted based on your browser and device information. All anyone monitoring your browsing habits can see is that you’re using Tor. Prevent someone watching your connection from knowing what websites you visit. Any cookies automatically clear when you’re done browsing. Tor Browser isolates each website you visit so third-party trackers and ads can’t follow you. For the upcoming Tor Browser for Android stable release, our goal is for Orbot not to be necessary to connect to Tor. Note: For this release, you also need to install Orbot, a proxy application that will connect Tor Browser for Android with the Tor network. The stable release is slated for early 2019. You can download the alpha release on GooglePlay, or you can get the apk directly from our download page. Introducing Tor Browser for Android (alpha), the mobile browser with the highest privacy protections ever available and on par with Tor Browser for desktop. There’s never been an official Tor Browser on mobile. In these same areas, there is often heavy surveillance and censorship online, so in the past year, we’ve focused on better supporting these users. Mobile browsing is on the rise around the world, and in some parts, it is commonly the only way people access the internet.
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