v2rayNG
2dust/v2rayNGReviewed by AI
What it does
v2rayNG is an Android app that routes your phone's internet traffic through a proxy server, which is mostly used to reach websites and services that are blocked on a network or in a country. It speaks the VMess, VLESS, Shadowsocks and Trojan protocols using the Xray or v2fly engine. The app brings no servers of its own: you paste in a server or subscription link from a provider, or from a server you rent yourself. It does not run on a computer; the README points desktop users to v2rayN instead.
How easy it is to install
B · installer plus one simple step
It is an Android-only app, so none of the desktop platforms get a grade. On Android you install a ready APK from the GitHub releases page, but nothing works until you import a server or a subscription link from somewhere else.
Numbers on GitHub
- Stars
- 65,078on Oct 31, 2026
- Downloads
- 47,187,777296,901 this week
- Growth
- +336stars in 5 days
Stars over time
Facts
- Runs on
- —
- You need to install
- Nothing extra
- Disk space
- not determined
- Accounts or keys
- None
- Cost
- Free · The app is free (GPL-3.0). It only works with a proxy server, which usually means paying a provider or renting your own server.
- License
- GPL-3.0 (Copyleft)
- Can replace
- Surge
- Last update
- Oct 28, 2026
Risk signals (4)
- Attentionlegal status varies by country
The topics are "proxy, shadowsocks, socks5, trojan, vless, vmess, vpn, xray, xtls" — protocols built to tunnel traffic past network blocking. The app itself is legal in most places, but using this kind of tool is restricted or punishable in some countries.
AI review
- Attentiontraffic goes through third party server
README: "A V2Ray client for Android, support Xray core and v2fly core". The app ships no servers, so all proxied traffic passes through whatever server or subscription you import, and whoever runs it can see your connections.
AI review
- Infodownloads rule files at run time
README (Geoip and Geosite): the download feature "will get enhanced version in this repo" (github.com/Loyalsoldier/v2ray-rules-dat) and "it needs a working proxy"; it is also "possible to use a third-party dat file in the same folder". So routing rules can come from outside the app after installation.
AI review
- Infono binaries detected in releases
The three latest releases (2.3.14, 2.3.13, 2.3.12) show "no platform binaries" in Radar's check, because the files are Android APKs rather than desktop installers. The README adds that release files are GPG-signed and gives the key fingerprint, so the download can be verified.
AI review
Evidence is shown in its original language.
What Radar could not check
- Which APK to pick for a given phone (arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, universal or x86) and how the regular and F-Droid builds differ.
- Whether the GPG signature on the releases matches the fingerprint printed in the README.
- How trustworthy any given server provider is; that depends on the provider, not on this app.
- Battery and speed impact of keeping the VPN mode on.
- Whether the engine bundled in the app is up to date, since the README says the core inside the aar is "(probably) outdated" for self-built versions.