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Onion Browser

Tor-endorsed free, open-source anti-censorship browser for iOS

Onion Browser is the Tor-endorsed free, open-source anti-censorship browser for Apple's iOS.

Based on the same principles as Tor Browser, it provides users with the highest standards of security, privacy, and internet freedom on an iPhone or iPad. By routing all of your encrypted web traffic through Tor, it ensures that browsing activity remains private, history is never saved, and location-based restrictions are bypassed. Onion Browser also enables easy access to the latest cutting-edge network filter circumvention technology, including Lyrebird (Obfs4), Snowflake, Web Tunnel, and DNS Turbo Tunnel. Our mission is to provide a transparent, community-audited, privacy-focused mobile web browser that eliminates targeted advertising, tracking, and censorship. With customizable security levels for every site, Onion Browser delivers a fast, secure, and truly private web experience, empowering users to reclaim their digital sovereignty.

Onion Browser has been developed for over 10 years by a team at Guardian Project, a primary community partner of Tor. These are the same developers behind Orbot, OnionShare for iOS, and developer libraries and tools including tor-android, the core Tor port to Android, Tor.framework the leading Tor port for iOS and macOS, and IPtProxy (the same circumvention library used in Orbot, Tor VPN and Tor Browser for Android). You can learn more about their broader work on Tor at the official Onion Mobile Developer Site.

The project is on a path to evolve Onion Browser into a full Tor Browser for iOS, building on the same Firefox-core as the other Tor Browser releases.

Impact

The only Tor-endorsed browser for iOS, providing private, censorship-resistant browsing to millions of Apple device users worldwide.

How your donation helps

Apple users demand a high degree of usability and polish in their apps, along with serious privacy and security controls. Adding Tor into the mix, takes the expectation to another level. Before we could use an alternative web engine on iOS, we were limited to Apple's closed and opaque WebKit library. Now it is possible to bring Mozilla's Gecko engine to iOS within the European market, and eventually globally. We will use this funding to build a Tor Browser for iOS that matches the same hardening and assurances provided by Tor Browser on other OSes, and it will be beautiful!

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