Anywherelan

about

description

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. - Reach self-hosted services like Nextcloud, Home Assistant or Bitwarden without exposing them to the internet. - Access websites from another country by using a remote device as a SOCKS5 proxy. - Route all of your traffic through a remote device as a full-tunnel VPN gateway (exit node), like a classic VPN. - Gaming: local multiplayer as if everyone were on the same LAN. - Share a development server with a colleague on another device, as an alternative to ngrok. - Use an old Android phone remotely with scrcpy to run Android-only apps without an emulator. **Features** - Fully peer-to-peer. No third-party coordination servers — your traffic stays between your devices. - Route traffic through a remote device like a SOCKS5 proxy. - Full-tunnel VPN gateway: route all of your device's traffic through a remote exit node. - Easy to use: install the app, scan the QR code of another device, and you are connected. - Built-in NAT traversal. - If both devices are behind NAT and direct P2P is not possible, encrypted traffic is relayed through community relays. - TLS 1.3 encryption for all transports (QUIC and TCP). - ed25519 peer authentication — a peer id is the device's public key. - Cross-platform: Android, Windows, Linux, macOS. **How it works** Awl is built on top of libp2p for peer-to-peer networking and a TUN virtual interface for IP routing. QUIC or TCP with TLS is used as a transport, and a DHT is used to discover peers. On first launch, the app connects to community bootstrap nodes, registers itself, and then looks up the addresses of the peers you want to reach. Source code, desktop builds and more documentation: [https://github.com/anywherelan/awl](https://github.com/anywherelan/awl)

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-10-07T18:02:34.138850+00:00

last event

2026-10-24 14:05 UTC

website

https://anywherelan.com/

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

topics

#connectivity #internet #vpn & proxy

source & build

repository

https://github.com/anywherelan/awl

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a android-armeabi-v7a android-x86_64

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

2 releases indexed; latest 0.20.0.

version	channel	released	event
0.20.0	main	2026-10-24 14:05 UTC	cc929aab…
0.19.0	main	2026-07-18 12:12 UTC	3294b8f1…

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

0.20.0 — awl-android-v0.20.0.apk

sha256

bc0cc5deb77ec67215a01a9a78655ed889661bc539ae0f005b9dc9e775e3557c

size

68.3 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86_64

version code

20000

apk cert sha256

74dd8b2638f7f0ef61431317588f96141baaea8715825b2858d0dfce0c07b177

download

awl-android-v0.20.0.apk

0.19.0 — awl-android-v0.19.0.apk

sha256

78d94b0564961d296b98e34d7f24371879a88c3cb44e8082ae66e8f14e7a5d27

size

63.1 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86_64

version code

19000

apk cert sha256

74dd8b2638f7f0ef61431317588f96141baaea8715825b2858d0dfce0c07b177

download

awl-android-v0.19.0.apk

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