Shadowrocket
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Shadowrocket is a proxy utility application for iOS published by Shadow Launch Technology Limited, which is typically used to circumvent the Great Firewall of China. Due to its icon, it is nicknamed Xiaohuojian ( ). The authors themselves do not provide any proxy servers, and users must add their own proxy servers to the app, of which a multitude of protocols are supported.
Shadowrocket is a proxy utility application for iOS published by Shadow Launch Technology Limited, which is typically used to circumvent the Great Firewall of China. Due to its icon, it is nicknamed Xiaohuojian ( ). The authors themselves do not provide any proxy servers, and users must add their own proxy servers to the app, of which a multitude of protocols are supported. ==Reception== The Central News Agency of Taiwan reported that Shadowrocket is known as a "fanqiang artifact" (a tool for bypassing a firewall). Hong-Kong-based NewMobileLife commented that as the most popular Shadowsocks client on the iOS platform, Shadowrocket is faster than its free counterpart Wingy. Shadowrocket was the second-most-popular paid iPhone application in the United States App Store in 2023, second only to Procreate; it was also the top-paid iPhone application in the Hong Kong App Store in 2020, and in Taiwan in 2023 and 2024. ==References==
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