# dovecoteescapee/ByeDPIAndroid

App to bypass censorship on Android

Repository: https://github.com/dovecoteescapee/ByeDPIAndroid
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/byedpiandroid
Homepage: https://ntc.party/c/community-software/byedpi
Language: Kotlin
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: anticensorship, censorship-circumvention, deep-packet-inspection, dpi
Last push: 2024-09-05T06:01:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 16/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 65
- inputs: {"age_days": 923, "days_push": 727, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5480, forks 279 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:19.714108+00:00)

## What it is
An Android application that runs a local VPN service wrapping the ByeDPI SOCKS5 proxy to bypass Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and censorship. All traffic is processed on-device without root, remote servers, or traffic encryption.

## Use cases
- bypass DPI-based website blocking on Android
- access censored sites without a remote VPN server
- route all device traffic through a local SOCKS5 proxy
- use ByeDPI with AdGuard via local proxy
- circumvent ISP traffic filtering without root

## When to choose
- you need on-device DPI circumvention on Android without root
- you want a censorship bypass tool that sends no data to remote servers
- you need a local SOCKS5 proxy to pair with apps like AdGuard

## When to avoid
- you need traffic encryption or IP hiding — this is not a real VPN
- you need DPI bypass on desktop or non-Android platforms
- you need a remote proxy/VPN with servers in other countries

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, networking, security, privacy
- domain: censorship-circumvention, privacy, networking, android-tools
- platform: -
- tags: dpi-bypass, vpn-service, socks5-proxy, anticensorship, no-root, android

## Member repositories
- dovecoteescapee/ByeDPIAndroid (main) score 16

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:19.714108+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:56:23.039335+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dovecoteescapee/ByeDPIAndroid (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:19.714108+00:00, sha a93ef361e4c5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.