Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TailGuard – Bridge your WireGuard router into Tailscale via a container
My elderly parents are behind a 5G connection in rural areas, and I help them manage their network from overseas. I found a reasonably priced 5G router that can do external antennas required for it to work, but the only reasonable ways to get access to it is either through OpenVPN or WireGuard, the latter of which is much more lightweight and preferred with the memory constraints of the device. The problem with WireGuard is that it requires handling key management oneself, and configuring the keys to every device you want to access it from. It also doesn't play nicely together with other…
TailGuard is a containerized tool that connects a WireGuard router to Tailscale, simplifying remote network access without manual key management. Designed for users managing devices in areas with limited connectivity… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Tailscale SSH▲126More easily and securely manage SSH connections
2022 · tailscale.com · its alternatives →
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WireHub is a side project I've been working on, on and off, for close to a year now. It's made with django and minimal javascript. It's a hosted WireGuard config generator/manager, that you can invite others to join your networks and manage their own configs/devices. It's still very much a beta, maybe an mvp, but I just wanted to get some early from the community. Thanks!
2023 · wirehub.org · its alternatives →
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WireHole offers a unified docker-compose project that integrates WireGuard, PiHole, and Unbound, complete with a user interface. This solution is designed to empower users to swiftly set up and manage either a full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN. It features ad-blocking capabilities through PiHole and enhanced DNS caching and privacy options via Unbound. The intuitive UI makes deployment and ongoing management straightforward, providing a comprehensive VPN solution with added privacy features.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A security auditor for Tailscale configurations. Scans your tailnet for misconfigurations, overly permissive access controls, and security best practice violations. - Adversis/tailsnitch
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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User space WireGuard port-forward in Rust. Contribute to aramperes/onetun development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Some misbehaving networks drop WireGuard packets either by accident or on purpose. Commonly the latter is done with simple DPI rules that block the handshake initiation [1], but it could be applied to other message types as well. We thought it would be great if there was tool for folks to use as a quick litmus test to see if this happening for them, without having to configure a client to send data through a random, functional WireGuard tunnel to an untrusted remote host. So we built probe.sh. How it works: - The probe.sh web app is an Elixir Phoenix app that spawns a few gen_udp…
2024 · probe.sh · its alternatives →
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I created Firezone to make it easier to host and manage your own WireGuard VPN server. While working at Cisco as a security automation engineer I experienced a lot of unnecessary pain managing secure network-level access into our cloud VPCs. I tried OpenVPN Access Server but I personally feel that security software should be open source to be validated (and improved) by the community. I discovered WireGuard and quickly fell in love with it, but soon found managing the peer configs to be a bit tedious and error-prone. So I built some convenience functionality on top, added a simple Web UI,…
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A modern serverless VPN based on WireGuard
2024 · upvpn.app · its alternatives →
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TailMux▲114Multiple Tailscale tailnets at once, no switching + no VM
Jul 2026 · tailmux.app · its alternatives →
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Hi Everyone, TunnlTo is a tool for controlling which Windows applications, processes, and IP addresses can use a WireGuard VPN tunnel. Here are some examples of how it could be used: - Route only FireFox through a privacy VPN - Route Slack and Microsoft Office through a work VPN - Route a game through a gaming VPN - Stop a game from routing through a privacy VPN - Stop a browser from routing through a work VPN - Route a specific IP address range through a privacy VPN - Route all traffic through a privacy VPN except a specific IP address range I have been collaborating on this project with…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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1.1.1.1 Warp▲544Free VPN by Cloudflare for iOS and Android
2019 · one.one.one.one · its alternatives →
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Howdy folk, I've been building this project as both a side project and my job for a little while now. The rationale behind it is while wireguard is a fantastic protocol cryptographically it leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to enrollment and end user device security. Obviously instead of using an off the shelf solution like tailscale, I decided to reinvent the wheel which has honestly been quite fun with learning about eBPF, and recently clustering and HA with etcd! The most recent version (in the docker container) contains about 6 months of very new work bringing it all from sqlite3…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I just saw this tweet[^1] by @QuinnyPig that mentions accessing your Pi-hole while traveling thanks to TailScale and wondered how to deploy Pi-hole at the edge, instead of a home lab, for improved latency. My simple solution involves running it on Fly.io to make it easy to relocate anywhere, and embedding tailscale into the same firecracker VM (né docker container) to keep the infra dead simple and cheap. Naively deploying a publicly accessible DNS resolver is not ideal[^2] so the main constraint was to secure the VM by 1) keeping all public ports closed and 2) having Pi-hole listen only…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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FAST command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation. - naggie/dsnet
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm the founder at Netrinos. I built a WireGuard-based mesh VPN because remote access has always been a pain. After years of SSH tunnels, IPsec headaches, and the ssh log horror movie, I wanted something simpler: install, sign in, get work done. Netrinos creates a LAN-like overlay network across your devices. Connections are direct P2P via WireGuard, with no central server routing traffic. Each device gets a stable IP and DNS name (pc.you.netrinos.com). When direct connections fail, they fall back to a relay server that's still encrypted end-to-end. We can't see your traffic. The most…
Dec 2025 · netrinos.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I just released weron, a P2P VPN that uses WebRTC for transport which I've been working on for the last couple of months. It can create both layer 2/Ethernet and layer 3/IP overlay networks, and the underlying transport layer can be easily embedded to write your own P2P apps with Go. Compared to for example Tailscale, WireGuard and ZeroTier, its much harder to block on a network level and also significantly easier to set up, while not sacrifing much performance. I'd love to get your feedback :)
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI. - wg-easy/README.md at master · WeeJeWel/wg-easy
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ts-ssh solves a specific problem: accessing machines on your Tailnet from environments where you can't install the full Tailscale daemon (like CI/CD runners or restricted systems). It uses Tailscale's tsnet library to establish userspace connectivity, then provides a standard SSH experience. Works with existing workflows since it supports normal SSH features like ProxyCommand, key auth, and terminal handling. Some features that proved useful: • Parallel command execution across multiple hosts • Built-in tmux session management for multi-host work • SCP-style file transfers • Works on…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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wireguard over TCP. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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Modern and secure VPN tunnel protocol for macOS
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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tailscale,wireguard,SSH,Terminal,VPN,VPN Conflict
2025 · galaxnet.cc · its alternatives →
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