AFWall+ (Android Firewall +)

The app works great so far but there's a few improvements I'd like to see made if possible. Sometimes the app takes too long to check for root access and i have to close and reopen the app. An option to auto tick the WiFi box for newly installed apps would also be nice. Applying a new rule means the app has to update ALL the rules and not just one. I like to switch rules a lot so for me this is very time consuming. Overall it's a great app with few annoyances.

On version 3.0.3, still cannot make persistent notification icon go away. When enabled, persistent notification is a shield, when disabled it is a white ball. Developer says white ball is from Google. That may be, HOWEVER, neither existed in v2.9 and earlier, so persistent notification icon is due to some change within the app between 2.9 and 3.0. Based on other reviews, these changes should be reverted back to how the old version handled things. I'm glad I still have a copy of 2.9.

AFWall+ is probably one of the most important apps on my phone. I like how I can leave an app's wireless capabilities off by default, essentially sandboxing it before allowing it to access the internet. My primary use case, however, is disabling access to data on my media apps. Without AFWall+, I would have drained all the data on my limited phone plan countless times. Definitely earned my donation, I've saved way more than $5.

Update: please make it stop auto refreshing during games!! It causes constant disconnects. Make it detect game modes. For what it does, great app. But it will randomly reapply settings in the middle of mobile games, which causes 15 second disconnects. Very bad for competitive gaming. No way to "mute" it or have it recognize game mode.. developer failed to respond to emails...

Edit: found you can reverse the whitelist to allow. Much better thank you! Will test for a few days and donate. !!! The application is good but the rules need more flexibility. Like enable all applications by default and only apply rules to disable. Currently everything is disabled and each app needs to apply a rule. On my phone this takes ~3mins Everytime i install or uninstall anything. Very cumbersome imo. Other wise the application worked great and does preform well.

App works as intended but recently I have been having trouble installing this app from google playstore. My phone is Galaxy A8 2018 running latest stock rom android 9. All other apps whether installed new or updated, do so without any problems but this app does not install on my phone, it downloads but gives error during installation. Also, i have tried side loading the apk file which works as intended but the app appears in uninstalled apps list in play store. Please fix this...

great app. would love it though if this app could be set on "ask mode" where everything is blocked but asks for permission when it tries to connect to the internet. it would make it easier working out exactly what needs internet and what doesn't for certain functions to work.

Been using this firewall for years - paid version (and always rated at 5 stars) - but latest version has issues: notification pops up most times saying "rules not applied" - even when applying manually (although rules seem to be applied anyway...) - and it stops tethering (so I can no longer share my internet with other devices) despite having the right permissions granted. Please fix... UPDATE: No changes/response for over a month - ia this abandonware??

Works well, blocks ads and other unnecessary traffic. But it would be useful to include some default options or guide on system services, because it took me a while to figure out all the ambiguous services without which nothing works in android.

The app is good overall but I frequently get internet access error while turning on the firewall. It happens mostly when switching networks or when turning on wi-fi.

I guess it works. But i th8nk its overrated. I have root. But this program doesn't seem to do any better than NoRoot. Worse actually. Because it doesnt notify when an app or service tries to call out. It should. So you can click on the notification and see THAT app in the list. This app lacks features that are typical for a firewall. Pretty bad since its a root app.

Question for the developper : Firewalls such as AFWall+ or Netguard are regularly used on Android to attempt to block network access from a specific app but these do not reliably work. Apps can use IPC to bypass the restrictions. If you cut off network access to an app, it will not prevent the app from sending an intent to another app (such as the browser) to make it make the same connection.Many apps already do this unintentionally with things such as with the download manager.

App is great! Only issue is backup file goes straight to scoped storage folder rather than asking the user where to save it(which is preferably somewhere on sdcard) !! People do backup/export when they want to restore it later after a ROM change duh. After a rom clean flash, scoped storage is gone 😭

after applying rules, it randomly applys itself in the background as i get a little popup from magisk that it was "granted superuser rights" and it causes me to lose connection in applications with rules for this app. it auto refreshes and I don't understand why! other than that terrible flaw, it's really good.

Not working well. I have used old version. Old version can block applications to access internet. But now this current version still have data leakage and apps can showing the adds which is downloaded from internet... Worst... Update and fix the problems..

flush flush flush rules all day 3 times after boot. theres boot setting then once after login and then 1min later. Nice but leaks a lot when VPN is being switched or stucked. Also needs refreshes often, frozen on boot often, so many problems. I wish android had exception for Lan as their blocking function really works unlike the firewalls.

Incredible app. Finally paid for the Pro version after years and years of use. Worth every penny. Extremely customisable if you know your iptables. Otherwise, simple to use for beginners. Its amazing what apps and services are trying to 'call home' for no real good reason.

This app has worked very well in the past however over the last few updates it's been causing me problems with tethering not working until i open AFWall reapply rules. Using Galaxy S3 and LOS 14.1 with std kernel and LOS SU addon. I'm not 100% certain yet but i may have found the issue. Option in settings under Binaries/DNSProxy defaults to Auto should detect Android ver >= 4.3 but doesn't. Setting to "Enable DNS via netd" and tethering/DNS works again. Maybe LOS uses different UID for netd?

Every other version works fine. 3.3.1 doesn't work for me. Can't download apps from anywhere after update. It is stuck on download pending. Doesn't matter whether firewall is aktive or not. After rollback everything works again

Great application! Currently still having 2 problems: 1. Log > Notification filter contains only one entry (mDNS) 2. Persistent notification does not disappear when disabling it in settings.

It used to be great, but now the app is extremely unreliable, unstable, and filled with bugs. I have donated many times before, but I won't again unless the bugs are fixed.

Great app! Its feature set should be integrated into the stock Android permission system by default, but as this is unfortunately not the case, this app does an awesome job in addressing this shortcoming of Android.

Excellent, nothing more to say!! If you use IPTables to custom firewall anything, get this app! I got it yesterday, tested it, and today paid the 10 bucks to support the dev (I didn't need anything the premium license offered), this app is so good, it was simply to support the devs!! I was looking for an IPTables GUI, and this is it with an intuitive (but easy enough for newbs to use) ipchain/iptable GUI, and this is exactly that! Perfect GUI to manage IPTables!! Nothing else needed but this!!

The app does not support multiple account profiles on Samsung galaxy. Apps on the 2nd profile are blocked. And they 2nd profile apps don't appear on Firewall rules, but showed up in logs as denied. Help!

I've used this app for awhile. was great, updated, now I have an icon on my phone saying "afwall" is running...but I run it all the time, which means the crappy icon is in my notification tray..ALL THE TIME! we break a good thing dev?

Ok after doing some digging it appears that Magisk needs to be set to global mount namespace for SU. after that things started workon several apps that refused to prompt. the app is solid and as good as i remember it from a number of years ago.

Randomly reapplies rules with no connectivity change, breaking the internet connection while it is doing it. And sometimes fails to get root out of nowhere and I have to kill it and reopen to fix.

Latest version fails to apply rules. Been using it for years, even reverted to an older version of root. Developer needs to roll back to older version.