Avoid unexpected roaming charges
About this app
Why this app?
When you travel near country borders, your phone may automatically connect to a stronger cell tower across the border—even if you never left your country. This can quickly result in costly roaming fees.
Manually toggling roaming is inconvenient and easy to forget. Roaming Borders automates the guardrails so you don’t have to.
What it does
• Block roaming when you don’t want it: Select allowed countries; if your device connects outside that list, data traffic is blocked.
• Avoid surprise charges: Prevent accidental cross-border roaming near national frontiers.
• Simple presets or full control: Choose ready-made country presets or build your own list for upcoming trips.
• On-device only: Uses Android’s VpnService as a local firewall. No tunneling to servers.
How it works
Roaming Borders runs a lightweight, on-device VPN that filters traffic based on your current country.
• When your current country is not in your allow-list → block data traffic system-wide.
• When your current country is allowed → allow traffic as normal.
• When connected to Wi-Fi, the guard pauses automatically and resumes once Wi-Fi disconnects.
Note on reboot: After restarting your phone, the guard re-enables after a short delay. To be extra safe, enable Airplane mode before restarting.
Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, by Simon Leistikow.
What's New in v1.0.0
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
Version history
Nov 3, 2025 · 2 MB · Android API 23–36 · code 1
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 e45331b0b04e0c9712d52f8de85441b976c57443761baf1f6a0d81a751a8e720
Will it run on your device?
78%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- ABI coverage is focused on newer 64-bit devices.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
How to install this safely
How to verify the file you downloaded
Before you install anything, confirm the file is the one described here. On a computer, run shasum -a 256 your-download.apk (macOS or Linux) or certutil -hashfile your-download.apk SHA256 (Windows), then compare the output character-for-character with the SHA-256 on this page. If a single character differs, the file is not the build we recorded — delete it.
What the signing certificate proves
Every Android app is signed with a private key that only its developer holds. The fingerprint on this page is a hash of the matching public certificate, and it proves continuity rather than identity: it tells you a build came from whoever signed the earlier ones. Android enforces this at install time — if a package claiming to be com.sleistikow.roamingborders is signed with a different key, the system will refuse to install it over your existing copy. A fingerprint that changes between releases is worth pausing on, because a repackaged app that has been modified by someone else cannot keep the original signature.
How to roll back to an earlier version
No earlier build is on record for Roaming Borders, so there is nothing to roll back to yet. When a second version is published, this section will explain how to move between them safely.
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Source code
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SHA-256 Hash
e45331b0b04e0c9712d52f8de85441b976c57443761baf1f6a0d81a751a8e720
Signing certificate
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