orbot VS go-libtor

Compare orbot vs go-libtor and see what are their differences.

orbot

The Github home of Orbot: Tor on Android (Also available on gitlab!) (by guardianproject)
censorship-circumvention Anonymity Security Tor Anticensorship
Source Code
gitlab.com
Suggest alternative
Edit details

go-libtor

Self-contained Tor from Go (by ipsn)
Tor onion-routing Go Golang Library Privacy Anonymity
Source Code
Suggest alternative
Edit details
WorkOS
Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
Our great sponsors
orbot go-libtor
24 3
1,953 536
4.7% 2.2%
9.6 0.0
10 days ago over 2 years ago
Java C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

orbot

Posts with mentions or reviews of orbot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-18.

go-libtor

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-libtor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-24.
  • Using as tor a library
    4 projects | /r/TOR | 24 Mar 2022
    However I want to use it as a 'library' not as a 'binary' like what the tor-android (TorService.java) and libtor-go does.
  • Embedding Tor into an application without external installation.
    2 projects | /r/TOR | 19 Apr 2021
    https://github.com/ipsn/go-libtor and https://github.com/cretz/bine are excellent libraries to get you started. They do exactly what you are asking.
  • Create Tor hidden service using only python or nodeJS
    1 project | /r/TOR | 30 Jan 2021
    I don't know about python or node, but there is this project (https://github.com/ipsn/go-libtor) that is a fully Golang library for interacting with Tor without the tor daemon from the OS repos. Golang has python and NodeJS bindings so you could use a Golang program as a the glue code between the python/node pieces and Tor.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing orbot and go-libtor you can also consider the following projects:

MagiskHidePropsConf - This tool is now dead...

bine - Go library for accessing and embedding Tor clients and servers

tor-android - Tor binary and library for Android

TorWall - Tallow - Transparent Tor for Windows

OnionBrowser - An open-source, privacy-enhancing web browser for iOS, utilizing the Tor anonymity network

g3n - Go 3D Game Engine (http://g3n.rocks)

Orfox - UPDATE: Orfox is being replaced by Tor Browser for Android. All future work and comments will be handled by Tor Project.

tor - unofficial git repo -- report bugs/issues/pull requests on https://gitlab.torproject.org/ --

thgtoa - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity

exif-eraser - Permissionless image metadata erasing application for Android

stem - Python controller library for Tor

orbot vs MagiskHidePropsConf go-libtor vs bine orbot vs tor-android go-libtor vs TorWall orbot vs OnionBrowser go-libtor vs g3n orbot vs Orfox go-libtor vs tor orbot vs thgtoa go-libtor vs tor-android orbot vs exif-eraser go-libtor vs stem