Alternative Windows client for SoftEther VPN

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We would like to share that a new Windows client compatible with SoftEther VPN is now available on the Microsoft Store under the name ObfusGated VPN: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p1txp4vszqz

The app is mainly used by ObfusGated VPN customers, but it also allows users to add custom SoftEther VPN server profiles and connect to them. It can serve as a simple alternative to the official SoftEther client, although it is more limited in features.

The app supports SoftEther’s native SSL/TLS VPN protocol with Password or RADIUS authentication. It does not support UDP Acceleration, but the speed is still quite decent without it.

Please note that the application needs to be run with administrator rights in order to create the required virtual network adapter.

The app is free and currently available only through the Windows Store.

If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please feel free to post them here. We genuinely appreciate all feedback.

For those using mobile devices, our Android app offers the same functionality and may be worth trying: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... sgated.vpn

[oscar]

We would like to share that a new Windows client compatible with SoftEther VPN is now available on the Microsoft Store under the name ObfusGated VPN: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p1txp4vszqz

The app is mainly used by ObfusGated VPN customers, but it also allows users to add custom SoftEther VPN server profiles and connect to them. It can serve as a simple alternative to the official SoftEther client, although it is more limited in features.

The app supports SoftEther’s native SSL/TLS VPN protocol with Password or RADIUS authentication. It does not support UDP Acceleration, but the speed is still quite decent without it.

Please note that the application needs to be run with administrator rights in order to create the required virtual network adapter.

The app is free and currently available only through the Windows Store.

If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please feel free to post them here. We genuinely appreciate all feedback.

For those using mobile devices, our Android app offers the same functionality and may be worth trying: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... sgated.vpn

The app solved the problem "There's why currently no VPN Clients on Android platform right now" very perfectly！

https://www.vpnusers.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=69882

Please note that apple app store [itunes] Already have a publicly stable APP here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sstp-connect/id1543667909

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We’ve updated the alternative Windows client to improve stability. It’s now available for direct download via this link and can be installed without a Microsoft Store account: https://downloads.obfusgated.com/app/wi ... atest.msix

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The Android app has been updated and now has a split tunnel feature so you can choose which apps bypass the VPN (or otherwise use it exclusively).

Get it for free here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... sgated.vpn

[michaeleangelo]

Any information on the licensing terms of your app and its source code access?
I mean, really, you are promoting some closed-source app that is aimed at collecting peoples' VPN credentials.

Could you please elaborate on the user data policies beyond "trust me, bro"?

Thank you!

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Any information on the licensing terms of your app and its source code access?
I mean, really, you are promoting some closed-source app that is aimed at collecting peoples' VPN credentials.

Could you please elaborate on the user data policies beyond "trust me, bro"?

Thank you!

The app is currently proprietary, so skepticism is reasonable, especially for a VPN client. Its purpose is not to replace SoftEther or lock users into a closed system, but to make self-hosted SoftEther and VPN Gate usable on more platforms with a better client experience.

The most important privacy point is simple: if you use your own SoftEther configuration, your server config and VPN credentials stay on your device. They are stored locally using platform secure storage where available, and in that custom-config mode they are not uploaded to ObfusGated or any third party. There are no analytics, no ad SDKs, no third-party tracking, and no background connections to ObfusGated in that mode. The only network connection the app makes is the SoftEther-based connection to the server you explicitly chose.

If you use the ObfusGated account or subscription features, that is a separate case. In that mode, the app necessarily talks to ObfusGated’s API for login, subscription status, and delivery of service credentials. The privacy policy is here: https://obfusgated.com/legal/privacy-policy

On the protocol side, the app still uses SoftEther rather than a proprietary replacement protocol. The only changes are small client-side derivations intended to reduce fingerprintability: making connection setup less deterministic, introducing slight timing variation where appropriate, varying some TCP/TLS handshake characteristics, and shaping the HTTPS wrapper around SoftEther control traffic to look closer to ordinary web traffic.

Because the client is closed-source, these claims should not be taken on trust alone. They are relatively easy to verify by inspecting permissions, observing network traffic, and reverse-engineering the client, and we actively encourage anyone interested to dissect the apps and independently test these claims.

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BTW, we recently released a new update to the Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... sgated.vpn
To our knowledge, this is currently the only Android SoftEther client with this combination of features:

• Sleep-aware idle handling: the app can pause or disconnect the tunnel when the device sleeps and restore it on wake, which helps avoid unnecessary idle battery drain.
• Split tunneling: you can either exclude selected apps from the VPN or allow only selected apps to use the VPN.
• Additional evasion aimed at heuristic and ML-based DPI: beyond a base SoftEther client, the Android transport adds small connection-time jitter, varies some TCP/TLS fingerprints, shapes the SoftEther HTTPS wrapper to look closer to normal browser traffic, and applies extra native socket-level tuning where available. The goal is to reduce the small discrepancies AI-assisted DPI systems look for when distinguishing VPN traffic from ordinary HTTPS.

The currently supported SoftEther features on Android are:

• SoftEther SSL-VPN over SSL/TLS only
• Password auth, RADIUS/plain-password auth, and anonymous auth
• Control-server connections with redirect to member servers
• Parallel multi-connection sessions (1-32 TCP connections)
• Virtual HUB selection, including HUB fetch/enumeration for custom servers
• TLS certificate verification, including trust handling for self-hosted servers

UDP acceleration is not implemented, because it conflicts with the DPI-evasion design - it may be added later for custom configs only.