Anywherelan (awl) is a mesh VPN that lets you connect to any of your devices at the IP level, wherever they are. It works similarly to tinc, direct WireGuard or Tailscale, but fully peer-to-peer — there are no central coordination servers to trust or set up. Your traffic goes directly between your devices. You can also route traffic through a remote device — either per-app as a SOCKS5 proxy, or all of your device's traffic at once as a full-tunnel VPN gateway (exit node). <b>Some use cases</b> <ul> <li>Connect to your home or work laptop over RDP/VNC/SSH even when it sits behind NAT, without configuring port forwarding.</li> <li>Reach self-hosted services like Nextcloud, Home Assistant or Bitwarden without exposing them to the internet.</li> <li>Access websites from another country by using a remote device as a SOCKS5 proxy.</li> <li>Route all of your traffic through a remote device as a full-tunnel VPN gateway (exit node), like a classic VPN.</li> <li>Gaming: local multiplayer as if everyone were on the same LAN.</li> <li>Share a development server with a colleague on another device, as an alternative to ngrok.</li> <li>Use an old Android phone remotely with scrcpy to run Android-only apps without an emulator.</li> </ul> <b>Features</b> <ul> <li>Fully peer-to-peer. No third-party coordination servers — your traffic stays between your devices.</li> <li>Route traffic through a remote device like a SOCKS5 proxy.</li> <li>Full-tunnel VPN gateway: route all of your device's traffic through a remote exit node.</li> <li>Easy to use: install the app, scan the QR code of another device, and you are connected.</li> <li>Built-in NAT traversal.</li> <li>If both devices are behind NAT and direct P2P is not possible, encrypted traffic is relayed through community relays.</li> <li>TLS 1.3 encryption for all transports (QUIC and TCP).</li> <li>ed25519 peer authentication — a peer id is the device's public key.</li> <li>Cross-platform: Android, Windows, Linux, macOS.</li> </ul>