The cross-platform GUI for the Anywherelan peer-to-peer mesh VPN. All the networking lives in the Go backend in the awl repo — this is only its frontend, written in Flutter.
Please report issues at the anywherelan issue tracker.
- Fully peer-to-peer — no coordination server, traffic goes directly between your devices.
- Full-tunnel VPN gateway: route all of your traffic through a remote device (exit node).
- Route per-app traffic through a remote device as a SOCKS5 proxy.
- Automatic NAT traversal, with a fallback to community relays when a direct path isn't possible.
- TLS 1.3 encryption (QUIC or TCP+TLS).
- Add peers by scanning a QR code.
- Android — full client: the backend is embedded in the app, which owns the VPN interface and supports the VPN gateway and SOCKS5 proxy.
- Web — read-only / observation mode: connects to an already-running backend; it cannot start/stop the server or control the VPN.
The GUI never does networking itself — it drives the awl backend over its HTTP REST API:
- Web calls an already-running backend over HTTP. Since the browser request is cross-origin, the backend has to allow it via CORS (in local development a small proxy bridges the two).
- Android embeds the backend (a gomobile build of
awl) and runs the same HTTP server locally, which the UI calls exactly like on web. A few things can't go over HTTP, though — starting the backend, owning the VPN interface, and reconfiguring routes for the gateway — so those use Android-specific platform channels (Kotlin) instead.
Grab the APK from the releases page.
flutter pub get
dart run build_runner build # generate JSON serialization code
flutter run # run on a connected device/emulatorAndroid also needs the Go backend built as
anywherelan.aarfrom the sibling../awlrepo (./build.sh android-lib); without it the app fails to start.
For the full build instructions (Go backend, Android library, release builds) see BUILDING.md in the awl repo.