lantern

getlantern/lantern

Open-source VPN for speed, privacy, and censorship circumvention. Free to download on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Ship status

Still shipping

Pushed in the last 30 days.

Last push
11 Nov 2026
today
Ship score
100/100
How it is calculated →
Stars, last 7 weeks
Stars, weekly: 16,054 → 16,749 (29 Sep – 10 Nov 2026)
+632 stars in the 28 days to 10 Nov 2026

Shipping: pushed in the last 30 days · slowed: quiet for 31–120 days · silent: no push in over 120 days.

Repo facts

What GitHub reports.

Stars
16.8K
Forks
11.1K
Open issues
33
Watchers
455
Primary language
Dart
Created
17 Feb 2011
Owner
getlantern · Organization

Open issues are the issues and pull requests GitHub reports as open; watchers are the accounts subscribed to the repository. OSI-approved license — GitHub’s own license field, not legal advice. 8 startups in the directory ship primarily in Dart.

Topics

#accelerator#censorship#circumvention#gfw#lantern#router#vpn

How it got here

What the classifier decided, and when.

Classified as an open-source startup by Jev, TypeSafe’s classifier, on 22 Sep 2026 — os_startup 67%, self-hostable 11%, hosted offering 18%. The classifier reads only the repository’s name, description and homepage; it can be wrong, and a probability under 0.5 puts a listing in the review queue rather than out of the directory.

Listed since the Sep 2025 crawl. Answered by jev-1.13.0. How the classification works →

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Updates daily, from the last push GitHub saw.

Honest caveat: GitHub proxies README images through Camo and rewrites the anchor with rel=“nofollow”, so a README embed sends you referral traffic and brand, not link equity. The link is dofollow wherever you control the markup — your docs, your landing page, your blog. The snippet uses your frozen OSSEAN slug, so it survives a repo rename.