Exclave
Exclave is a free, open-source privacy app for Android. Exclave is a proxy client. Features: - Various proxy protocols - Group and subscription - Routing - Proxy chain Some supported protocols: - Shadowsocks (with SIP003 plugin support) - Shadowsocks. It has 2,823 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
- Android
- Kotlin
- Privacy, ad-blocking & VPN
- Actively maintained
About Exclave
Exclave is a proxy client. Features: - Various proxy protocols - Group and subscription - Routing - Proxy chain Some supported protocols: - Shadowsocks (with SIP003 plugin support) - Shadowsocks 2022 (with SIP003 plugin support) - Trojan - Hysteria 2 - AnyTLS - mieru - NaïveProxy (as a standalone plugin) - TUIC - Juicity - VMess (with various optional sub-protocols) - VLESS (with various optional sub-protocols) - WireGuard (TCP and UDP only) - TrustTunnel (no ICMP echo support) - Snell v4 and Snell v6 - ShadowQUIC - SSH proxy ("dynamic port forwarding") - HTTP CONNECT tunnel (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.1 with TLS, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3) - SOCKS4, SOCKS4A and SOCKS5 Although it can take charge of the…
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds Exclave from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.
Screenshots
Screenshots from the app's F-Droid listing.
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What is Exclave?
Exclave is a free, open-source privacy app for Android. Exclave is a proxy client. Features: - Various proxy protocols - Group and subscription - Routing - Proxy chain Some supported protocols: - Shadowsocks (with SIP003 plugin support) - Shadowsocks. It has 2,823 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
Is Exclave free and open source?
Yes. Exclave's source code is public on GitHub under the GPL-3.0-only license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.
How do I install Exclave?
You can install Exclave from F-Droid (package com.github.dyhkwong.sagernet); the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: 0.17.56).
Is Exclave still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Sep 9, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.