Alternatives to Viscosity VPN Mac

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Hello, I am looking for an alternative to the VPN client Viscosity. My current VPN connection is a TCP over port 443 and obfuscated using OBFS4. I need a client that will support this (pluggable transports). Also needs to support macOS catalina. Any ideas?

It would also be good if I can share that connection (remember that I’m on a mac)

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Thanks!

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I’m using Viscosity, though not all the features you mention, on which does viscosity fall short?

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Alternatives to Viscosity

  • OpenVPN. OpenVPN is a full-featured open source SSL VPN solution that accommodates a wide range of configurations, including remote.
  • WireGuard.
  • SoftEther VPN.
  • Tunnelblick.
  • Shimo.
  • OpenVPN Finder.
  • fruho.
  • Sidestep.
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You can do that with any client if you are ok using an external device, like a travel router that has the vpn client. The external device can also share the tunneled connection to other devices via wifi or Ethernet.

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Have you tried Tunnelblick? I’m not sure if it supports what you need but it’s the most popular Openvpn client for Mac.

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I will note that Shimo is no longer supported; The devs have informed me that the OpenVPN project behind it is dated and no longer being worked on. fyi

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I have, but I think Viscosity is the only one that I have found that supports pluggable transports, specifically obfs4.

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I’m not very familiar with obfs4, but I know it’s possible to tunnel Openvpn over a socks5 proxy (Shadowsocks) using the socks-proxy directive with Tunnelblick.