wireguard-apple VS wireguard-tools

Compare wireguard-apple vs wireguard-tools and see what are their differences.

wireguard-apple

Mirror only. Official repository is at https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-apple (by WireGuard)

wireguard-tools

Mirror only. Official repository is at https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools (by WireGuard)
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wireguard-apple wireguard-tools
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894 439
2.2% 2.1%
0.0 3.2
about 1 month ago 8 days ago
Swift C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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wireguard-apple

Posts with mentions or reviews of wireguard-apple. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-13.
  • error in Wireguard-apple --> Building and Integrate for iOS and macOS
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 1 Sep 2023
    I am trying to integrate WireGuard for iOS and macOS in Xcode, the build process is success, but the integration shows error which is attached below,although I had followed the procedures said in Github(https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple/blob/master/README.md)... I am facing issue while integrating WireGuardKit in Xcode project. Help me to solve this, if anyone had done with it, share your ideas/thoughts as soon as possible... Anyhelp will be appreciated!
  • Where to discuss development of the macOS app?
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 8 Jun 2023
    The [github repo](https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple) is a readonly mirror. The [official git repo](https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-apple) has no discussion/wiki area that I can see.
  • Is a 35% drop in download speed normal?
    1 project | /r/mullvadvpn | 20 Feb 2023
    I thought so too, but I saw posts like this that made me wonder. I haven't had a chance to look at the source code yet.
  • Send Wireguard Android configuration from MDM.
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 8 Feb 2023
    I have an MDM and for iOS devices I am able to send configurations (profiles) with Wireguard client data and it is configured automatically. I have followed this: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple/blob/master/MOBILECONFIG.md
  • Running a VPN server on iOS is against AppStore's Guidelines
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2022
    Okay, I just dove into wireguard‘s source code and it looks like I made wrong assumptions. When I used mullvad or wireguard, it always showed „127.0.0.1“ as the server, however, according to wireguard‘s source, this is just set as a placeholder. I assume that mullvad used this code to implement their app too.

    https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple/blob/13b720442d...

    https://ibb.co/x5kwxZW

  • Wireguard forced-on for iOS devices
    1 project | /r/firewalla | 13 Oct 2022
    The most hopeful discussion was this Github project... but., I can't get iOS to accept the .mobileconfig as a legitimate profile. Hoping some of the smart folks here had a solution.
  • WireGuard VPN randomly disconnects on iOS
    1 project | /r/firewalla | 25 Jul 2022
  • Is the Apple Wireguard project even compatible with catalyst enabled?
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 9 Apr 2022
    The Apple Wireguard project on Github currently supports both iOS and MacOS natively.
  • Question regarding device management:
    2 projects | /r/ios | 13 Feb 2022
    So, I found this guide to create a mobileconfig for WireGuard (https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple/blob/master/MOBILECONFIG.md) , and I’ve heard a mobileconfig with a managed device can force the phone to make ALL traffic go through vpn (I run a pihole accessible via WireGuard and want to use with that) and my question is how do I setup a managed device for myself for the purpose of total network traffic control?
  • How to build the Wireguard iOS Xcode project?
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 10 Oct 2021
    I'm trying to build the official Wireguard Xcode for iOS, but I get this build error with WireGuardGoBridgeiOS

wireguard-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of wireguard-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
  • jc: Converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2023
    Oh, this is cool. I'm a huge proponent of CLI tools supporting sensible JSON output, and things like https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/blob/master/con... and PowerShell's |ConvertTo-Json are a huge part of my management/monitoring automation efforts.

    But, unfortunately, sensible is doing some heavy lifting here and reality is... well, reality. While the output of things like the LSI/Broadcom StorCLI 'suffix the command with J' approach and some of PowerShell's COM-hiding wrappers (which are depressingly common) is technically JSON, the end result is so mindbogglingly complex-slash-useless, that you're quickly forced to revert to 'OK, just run some regexes on the plain-text output' kludges anyway.

    Having said that, I'll definitely check this out. If the first example given, parsing dig output, is indeed representative of what this can reliably do, it should be interesting...

  • Write Posix Shell
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2023
    > Possible? Maybe. Easy? No. Especially the “testable” part.

    a testable shell script? Never seen one.

    Thinking about scirpts I've read in the past, I remember seeing Jason Donenfeld's bash script for wireguard-wg and thinking how productive and readable it was,

    https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/blob/master/src...

  • Accessing WireGuard VIA DDNS
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 1 Mar 2023
  • C# to C Struct
    2 projects | /r/csharp | 27 Nov 2022
  • Identity Management for WireGuard
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
    I see this when my equipment roams back into my private network and the wireguard server is inside that LAN. It can be solved by NAT'ing packets arriving on your edge router's inside interface, destinated to your outside IP, back to the inside wireguard server IP.

    Alternatively if your client is Linux, there is:

    https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/tree/master/con...

  • wireguard-tools on FreeBSD (TrueNas), where do I find the reresolve-dns.sh script? (Or something similar)
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 14 Jan 2022
    you have a copy here that you can edit: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/blob/master/contrib/reresolve-dns/reresolve-dns.sh
  • Dynamic DNS setting??
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 9 Dec 2021
  • wireguard-dns
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 14 Nov 2021
  • Route only certain dynamic IPs through the WireGuard tunnel
    1 project | /r/WireGuard | 3 Nov 2021
    You could adapt this script for it. What this one does is re-resolve the domain of the endpoint for when it's a dynamic dns. You run it on a timer from cron, and when your dynamic dns changes it will update the endpoint IP with wg set. You could adapt this script to update your AllowedIPs instead of the endpoint.
  • WireGuard MacOS DMG File
    3 projects | /r/WireGuard | 25 Apr 2021
    I found the GitHub Repository to wireguard-tools however, I cannot read the exact commands required to connect to a certain VPN! I've created a .conf file and was wondering how you could use that with WireGuard-tools to establish a VPN tunnel to my network?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wireguard-apple and wireguard-tools you can also consider the following projects:

firezone - Open-source VPN server and egress firewall for Linux built on WireGuard. Firezone is easy to set up (all dependencies are bundled thanks to Chef Omnibus), secure, performant, and self hostable.

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

subspace - A fork of the simple WireGuard VPN server GUI community maintained

CsWin32 - A source generator to add a user-defined set of Win32 P/Invoke methods and supporting types to a C# project.

VxWireguard-Generator - Utility to generate VXLAN over Wireguard mesh SD-WAN configuration

wg-easy - The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI. [Moved to: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy]

textfsm - Python module for parsing semi-structured text into python tables.

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.