strongswan vs Easer

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strongswan		Easer
	Project
12	Mentions	9
2,076	Stars	773
3.2%	Growth	-
9.5	Activity	5.5
6 days ago	Latest Commit	17 days ago
C	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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.

strongswan

Posts with mentions or reviews of strongswan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

Proton VPN for Linux is Totally F*cked UP
5 projects | /r/ProtonVPN | 17 May 2023

You do know that Linux has native GUI support for VPNs don't you? Install the strongSwan suite from your distribution. This will enable IPsec/IKEv2 on your machine.
23.1.2 is up
3 projects | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 7 Mar 2023

ports: strongswan 5.9.10[13]
22.7.11 is up
2 projects | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 18 Jan 2023

[9] https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/releases/tag/5.9.9
OOP in C
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2023
I think I suck at Networking
2 projects | /r/devops | 16 Aug 2022
Self-hosted VPN with LDAP Support
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Jul 2022

So far it seems that strongswan is my best bet and wireguard with the WG-portal seems interesting. I was hoping someone could give me insight into either of these options, or any options in general.
Any Selfhosted VPN which can be connected via inbuilt VPN settings of Windows?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 May 2022
⟳ 10 apps added, 74 updated at f-droid.org
43 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 21 Aug 2021

strongSwan VPN Client: An easy to use IKEv2/IPsec-based VPN client.

Easer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Easer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-01.

You favourite Non-FOSS apps?
3 projects | /r/androidapps | 1 Jan 2023

There is one i've never tried it tho. Also This one got discontinued
Android KeyMapper, change what the buttons do
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2022

Also I was trying to combine it with Easer, another automating app with events/conditions/operations ( https://github.com/renyuneyun/Easer )
Calling for a FOSS implementation of Tasker
2 projects | /r/fossdroid | 19 Sep 2021

What is wrong with "Easer" - https://me.ryey.icu/Easer/en/ - https://f-droid.org/packages/ryey.easer/ - https://github.com/renyuneyun/Easer
⟳ 10 apps added, 74 updated at f-droid.org
43 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 21 Aug 2021

Easer (beta) (version 0.8.2): User-defined explicit automation for Android

What are some alternatives?

When comparing strongswan and Easer you can also consider the following projects:

OpenContacts

syphon - ⚗️ a privacy centric matrix client

docker-ipsec-vpn-server - Docker image to run an IPsec VPN server, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2

Gear-VPN - A VPN client for Android based on OpenVPN made with Jetpack Compose.

FairEmail - Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

App Manager - A full-featured package manager and viewer for Android

AdAway - AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android.

spreed - 🗨️ Nextcloud Talk – chat, video & audio calls for Nextcloud

lightway-core - Lightway Core is a modern VPN protocol by ExpressVPN, to deliver a VPN experience that’s faster, more secure, and more reliable.

Android.EweSticker - EweSticker is an Android sticker keyboard application, specifically designed for sharing a wide variety of custom stickers in supported messaging apps. This project draws inspiration from the uSticker project and is a fork of the woosticker repository.

Trail-Sense - An Android app that uses your phone's sensors to assist with wilderness treks or survival situations.

exif-thumbnail-adder - Android app to add thumbnail in the EXIF tag of JPEG pictures not having one (batch processing)