Mobile app · Security & privacy

MESH

Censorship-resisting overlay network for digital forensics.

Completely free
Android
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by F-Droid
License: AGPL-3.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by F-Droid
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by F-Droid
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by F-Droid
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: No
Platforms: AndroidEstablished by Android: F-Droid
Latest version: 0.2.1-beta (19 September 2026)
Latest activity: 19 September 2026
Source code: github.com/BARGHEST-ngo/MESH

Overview

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: end-to-end encryption, self-hosting on your own server and debugging.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“MESH is a censorship-resisting, peer-to-peer first, end-to-end encrypted overlay network for digital forensics.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
“It's a fork of the Tailscale protocol, but is self-hostable and heavily modified for civil society and forensic operations.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
“MESHforensics enables internet-routable wireless debugging for mobile devices over an encrypted, censorship-resistant peer-to-peer mesh network.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

MESH is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No advertising
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) — 6 November 2026
Last technical check: 5 November 2026
Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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