# Meow - Smart VPN — meow-rs powered VPN client

> meow-rs powered VPN client (iPhone/iPad app by Shanghai Tangzixiang Information Technology Co., Ltd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/meow-smart-vpn/id6778303404 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Shanghai Tangzixiang Information Technology Co., Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/6778303406)
- Category: Utilities, Productivity
- Price: $1.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 53 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2026-08-04
- Data updated: 2026-08-22
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/meow-smart-vpn/id6778303404/reviews.md

## What is Meow?

meow is a native iOS proxy client built on the meow-rs engine — wrapped in a SwiftUI iOS 26 Liquid Glass UI, with traffic carried by a NetworkExtension packet tunnel provider.

If you have ever managed a Clash or meow-rs configuration, meow will feel familiar. Subscribe to a YAML config, choose a proxy group, flip the toggle, and your traffic flows through the proxy engine — all on-device, with no cloud component.

WHAT IT DOES
• Clash-protocol YAML subscriptions with auto-refresh and a built-in YAML editor
• Rule-based traffic routing (domain, IP, GeoIP, GeoSITE)
• DNS-over-HTTPS resolution
• Per-app proxy groups, latency tests, and selector switching
• On-device packet tunnel — no external server handles your traffic

SUPPORTED PROTOCOLS
Shadowsocks, Trojan, and VLESS outbounds (with TLS, WebSocket, gRPC, H2 and HTTPUpgrade transports). HTTP and SOCKS5 outbounds are also supported for upstream proxies.

PRIVACY
Your subscription URLs, proxy credentials, configurations, and tunneled traffic stay on your device and are never transmitted by meow. The packet tunnel runs locally inside the Network Extension sandbox.

The app does not collect analytics, subscription URLs, proxy credentials, configuration contents, DNS queries, or tunneled traffic. See the privacy policy for details.

REQUIREMENTS
• iOS 26 or later (iPhone and iPad)
• A proxy subscription you trust — meow does not provide any proxy servers

meow is a one-time purchase, with no in-app purchases and no subscription fees. "Subscription" here means a proxy configuration URL (a Clash-style config subscription) that you supply — not a paid subscription.

OPEN SOURCE
meow-ios is open source. Source, issue tracker, and release notes:
https://github.com/madeye/meow-ios

## Chart rankings

- #197 in Top Paid · Utilities (US App Store)


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.5.0 — 2026-08-11

• Reliability: the tunnel's TCP/IP engine was reworked from the ground up, fixing rare "connected but no traffic" freezes — especially after the phone sleeps overnight
• Smarter wake handling: after waking, the tunnel checks its actual data path and only restarts when truly needed
• DNS: the dns: section of your config (nameserver, fallback, fake-ip-filter, nameserver-policy) is now respected
• Config changes apply instantly with hot reload, without dropping the connection where possible
• New App Icon picker in Settings, with two additional icons
• "Subscriptions" are now called "Configs" throughout the app
• Global mode now routes through your config's primary outbound
• Clearer error when a config URL uses plain http:// instead of https://

Issues and feedback: https://github.com/madeye/meow-ios/issues

### 1.4.0 — 2026-08-05

No release notes.

## More apps by Shanghai Tangzixiang Information Technology Co., Ltd

- [gterm: Ghostty SSH](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gterm-ghostty-ssh/id6774837597)
- [ShadowVPN - Fast Proxy](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadowvpn-fast-proxy/id6782243270)

All apps by Shanghai Tangzixiang Information Technology Co., Ltd: https://appshunter.io/developer/6778303406

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