Shadowsocks
Shadowsocks Summary
Shadowsocks is a ad-supported Android app in Communication by Max Lv. Released in Dec 2012 (13 years ago). It has about 7.2M+ installs and 67.1K ratings with a 4.27★ (good) average. Based on AppGoblin estimates, it reaches roughly 228.3K monthly active users and generates around $<10K monthly revenue (0% IAP / 100% ads). Store metadata: updated Sep 17, 2021, version 5030400.
Recent activity: 201.4K installs this week (207.9K over 4 weeks) showing exceptional growth , and -22 new ratings this week View trends →
Data tracking: SDKs and third-party integrations were last analyzed on Feb 28, 2026. The app's network data flows (API traffic to/from the app and its SDKs) were last crawled on Dec 24, 2025.
Store info: Last updated on Google Play on Sep 17, 2021 (version 5030400).
Shadowsocks was last scanned for SDKs 2026-02-28. Below is the overview of third party companies detected in the app. The full list of raw SDKs, app permissions and unknown SDKs is available here.
Google
Kotlin
Firebase4.27★
Ratings: 67.1K
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App Description
Shadowsocks: a secure socks5 proxy.
Shadowsocks is a high-performance cross-platform secured socks5 proxy. It will help you surf the internet privately and securely.
*NOTE: You may need to unisntall and reinstall the app, after upgrading to 3.x or above.*
FEATURES
1. Bleeding edge techniques with Asynchronous I/O and Event-driven programming.
2. Low resource comsumption, suitable for low end boxes and embedded devices.
3. Avaliable on multiple platforms, including PC, MAC, Mobile (Android and iOS) and Routers (OpenWRT).
4. Open source implementions in python, node.js, golang, C#, and pure C.
Visit our project site for more details: https://www.shadowsocks.org
SETUP
1. To setup your own server, please refer to: https://shadowsocks.org/en/download/servers.html
2. To view the source codes or build your own apk, please refer to: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-android
FAQ
https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-android/wiki/FAQ
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2016 by Max Lv
Copyright (C) 2016 by Mygod Studio
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Other open source licenses can be found here: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-android/blob/master/README.md#open-source-licenses