Controlling or banning an application's access to the Internet has many benefits, these include at least: reducing your data usage, saving your battery life, and increasing your privacy protection. These make sense especially for mobile phone users. In this regard, there doesn't seem to be any other no-root firewall apps with the same comprehensive features as NetGuard.

NetGuard is a sophisticated, concise, user-friendly and practical network privileges management application developed by the author of XPrivacy (ultimate, yet easy to use, privacy manager). It provides both simple and advanced ways to block every application in your smart phone to access the Internet. Even better, it does not need the root privilege at all. In NetGuard, applications and addresses can be allowed or denied to access the Wi-Fi network and/or mobile data network respectively with one click.

As an application that can be used to disable other applications to connect to the Internet, NetGuard is designated as a network security app specially designed for mobile phone users. It's professional and rich functions protect users' mobile network security and privacy content in a thorough way. For example, it allows user to view the blocked traffic logs, notifications for newly installed applications, Internet connection speed indicators, and so on. Figuratively speaking, it acts as a solid lock that allows your phone's network information to open and close in an easy manner.

Key Features

  • Simple to use
  • No root required
  • 100% open source
  • No calling home
  • No tracking or analytics
  • No advertisements
  • Actively developed and supported
  • Android 5.1 and later supported
  • IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP supported
  • Tethering supported
  • Multiple device users supported
  • Optionally allow when screen on
  • Optionally block when roaming
  • Optionally block system applications
  • Optionally notify when an application accesses the internet
  • Optionally record network usage per application per address
  • Material design theme with light and dark theme

Pro Features

  • Log all outgoing traffic; search and filter access attempts; export PCAP files to analyze traffic
  • Allow/block individual addresses per application
  • New application notifications; configure NetGuard directly from the notification
  • Display network speed graph in a status bar notification
  • Select from five additional themes in both light and dark version

System Requirements

  • Android 5.1+

Edition Statement

AppNee provides the NetGuard Pro Edition multilingual paid full versions for Android.

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Download URLs

License Version Download Size
Pro Edition v2.225 reserved n/a
v2.250 2.44 MB
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