proxychains-ng VS torsocks

Compare proxychains-ng vs torsocks and see what are their differences.

proxychains-ng

proxychains ng (new generation) - a preloader which hooks calls to sockets in dynamically linked programs and redirects it through one or more socks/http proxies. continuation of the unmaintained proxychains project. the sf.net page is currently not updated, use releases from github release page instead. (by rofl0r)

torsocks

Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git (by dgoulet)
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proxychains-ng torsocks
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9,445 498
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4.6 0.0
22 days ago about 2 years ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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proxychains-ng

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxychains-ng. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-11.

torsocks

Posts with mentions or reviews of torsocks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proxychains-ng and torsocks you can also consider the following projects:

sshuttle - Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

proxychains - proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP.

3proxy - 3proxy - tiny free proxy server

duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

preload - preload is an adaptive readahead daemon that prefetches files mapped by applications from the disk to reduce application startup time.

docker-tor - A docker image for deploying tor with Docker and/or Kubernetes

haproxy - HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)

tribler - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery

bhook - :fire: ByteHook is an Android PLT hook library which supports armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86 and x86_64.

nipe - An engine to make Tor network your default gateway

ts-warp - Transparent proxy server and traffic wrapper

linux-cli-community - Linux command-line client for ProtonVPN. Written in Python.