Tailscale Downloads & RevenueTailscale · App Store & Google Play
Tailscale gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Tailscale by Tailscale Inc. is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
📦iOSUpdated to version 1.104.5📦iOSNow updating weekly📈AndroidEntered the top 100📈iOSEntered the top 100📈AndroidEntered the top 100📈iOSEntered the top 100🔎AndroidTop 10 for “tai”⭐iOSPassed 1K ratings🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play🆕iOSReleased on the App Store
Full timeline · 34 events
- 📦Tailscale updated to version 1.104.5iOSFixed: Connectivity stalls affecting Tailscale SSH, Tailscale Serve, and tsnet on lossy networks are resolved.
Fixed: Tailscale SSH sessions no longer disconnect when a check mode approval expires.
Fixed: An issue that could cause Tailscale SSH restarts to hang or background tasks to terminate is resolved.
Fixed: Connection reliability is improved when the network reports an unreachable destination.… more - 📦Tailscale: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Tools · TW
- 📦Tailscale updated to version 1.104.4iOSFixed potential security concerns with Tailscale serve and ssh, see https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins for more details
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100iOSTop Free · Utilities · GB
- 📦Tailscale updated to version 1.104.2iOSGo is updated to version 1.27.3, to explicitly distrust compromised TLS intermediate certificates as described in security bulletin TS-2026-013.
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Tools · NL
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100iOSTop Free · Utilities · IT
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100iOSTop Free · Utilities · FR
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new country in 3 chartsAndroidSpain · Sweden · Taiwan
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Tools · SE
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryiOSIndonesia
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryAndroidNetherlands
- ✏️Tailscale: needs a newer iOSiOSiOS 15.0 → iOS 16.6
- 📦Tailscale updated to version 1.104.1iOSNew: Devices can be pinned on iOS.
New: Taildrop supports URLs and text selections.
Fixed: An issue that could cause exit notes to not appear when using a custom coordination server is resolved.
Fixed: An issue that could cause public DNS to silently break when Tailscale is the system DNS resolver is resolved.
Changed: WireGuard packet buffering uses less memory while waiting for peer handshakes.
Changed: WireGuard packet queue depth scales with CPU core count, reducing peak memory usage under heavy traffic.… more - 🔎Tailscale reached Top 10 for “tai”Android#3 in Australia search · popularity 52
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryiOSIndia
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Tools · CA
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryiOSUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryAndroidItaly
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryAndroidFrance
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryAndroidUnited States
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Tools · AU
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryAndroidGermany
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryiOSItaly
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100iOSTop Free · Utilities · JP
- 📈Tailscale entered the top 100iOSTop Free · Utilities · AU
- 📈Tailscale charting in a new countryiOSFrance
- 🆕Tailscale first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited Kingdom
- 🆕Tailscale first spotted by AppInsideriOS#57 in Top Free · Utilities · South Korea
- 📦Tailscale version 1.102.4iOSNo release notes
- 🆕Tailscale released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Tailscale released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.8 ★
5.8k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#32
App Store · 
Utilities Free
Utilities FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
90
▲ +39% vs the 2 weeks before (Google Play)
Measured
App Store
App details
App ID
1470499037
Publisher
Tailscale Inc.
Publisher country
Canada
On the store since
Aug 2019
7 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.6+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
31 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.tailscale.ipn
Publisher
Tailscale Inc
Publisher country
Canada
Content rating
Everyone
Tailscale downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 1k+ | 100k+ |
| Google Play | 5k+ | 1M+ Measured |
| Total | 10k+ Confidence | 1M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Tailscale's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #32 Utilities Free | 12 of 30 countries | #66 | – |
| Google Play | #67 Tools Free | 13 of 23 countries | #120 | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisApp Store
New ratings a week
22
steady vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1.8
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.4★
vs 4.5★ lifetime
Review momentum
73/100
faster than 85% of Utilities apps
New ratings by country (5)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
 United States | 9 | 46% | ▲ +24% |
 United Kingdom | 4 | 21% | ▼ -20% |
 Germany | 3.5 | 18% | ▼ -40% |
 Canada | 1.5 | 8% | – |
 France | 1.5 | 8% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Google Play
New ratings a week
68
▲ +39% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2
Google Play
Recent ratings
4.1★
vs 4.1★ lifetime
Review momentum
45/100
faster than 30% of Tools apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.4 ★ | 783 |
| Google Play | 4.8 ★ | 5.1k 387 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.8 ★ weighted by ratings | 5.8k |
What users say about Tailscale
From the 55 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (55% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for speed, and being useful. The main complaints are about login and account problems, and connection and sync problems. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Speed & performance: “First, the battery drain is bothersome”
- Useful: “Super useful app/service, connect to your pc from anywhere as if you were on the same network, main issue is battery drains like crazy when it's on”
- Ease of use: “So easy to set up and works flawlessly ✌️”
- Connection & sync: “Tailscale allows me to access my home PC on any WiFi without any of the port forwarding stuff”
Common complaints
- Login & account: “i cannot sign in or use the app in any way”
- Connection & sync: “Just doesn’t connect reliably”
- Crashes & bugs: “Will adjust once iOS bug is resolved”
- Speed & performance: “Latest update drains battery”
About Tailscale
Securely connect people, workloads, and even AI agents to anything on the internet with Tailscale, the secure connectivity platform built on WireGuard®. Tailscale brings identity to the network layer so you can control access based on users, groups, tags, and devices instead of IP addresses, applying Zero Trust principles end-to-end across every environment.
Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources.
Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform.
Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale.
Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture.
Tailscale integrates with 100+ technologies and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of platforms — including Apple’s macOS, iOS, and tvOS — so you can securely connect from wherever you work.
Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources.
Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform.
Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale.
Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture.
Tailscale integrates with 100+ technologies and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of platforms — including Apple’s macOS, iOS, and tvOS — so you can securely connect from wherever you work.
Tailscale App Store
Tailscale gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Tailscale is #66 in Utilities Free in United States and charting in 12 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperTailscale Inc.
CategoryUtilities
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.4 (783)
Version1.104.5
Age rating4+
First seen by us 24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Rating
4.4 ★
783 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#66
Utilities FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
22
steady vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Tailscale on the App Store
App details
App ID
1470499037
Publisher
Tailscale Inc.
Publisher country
Canada
On the store since
Aug 2019
7 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.6+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
31 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
Tailscale downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Tailscale's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | UtilitiesFree | #66 |
| South Korea | UtilitiesFree | #32 |
 Japan | UtilitiesFree | #74 |
| Germany | UtilitiesFree | #45 |
| Canada | UtilitiesFree | #45 |
| United Kingdom | UtilitiesFree | #102 |
 Australia | UtilitiesFree | #66 |
| France | UtilitiesFree | #91 |
 Italy | UtilitiesFree | #84 |
 India | UtilitiesFree | #168 |
 Indonesia | UtilitiesFree | #184 |
 United Arab Emirates | UtilitiesFree | #192 |
Apps near Tailscale on the chart
Utilities Free, around #66.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
783 ratings
Measured
Ratings
783
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
22
steady vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1.8
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.4★
vs 4.5★ lifetime
Review momentum
73/100
faster than 85% of Utilities apps
New ratings by country (5)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 46% | ▲ +24% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 21% | ▼ -20% |
| Germany | 3.5 | 18% | ▼ -40% |
| Canada | 1.5 | 8% | – |
| France | 1.5 | 8% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Tailscale
From the 55 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (55% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for speed, and being useful. The main complaints are about login and account problems, and connection and sync problems. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Speed & performance: “First, the battery drain is bothersome”
- Useful: “Super useful app/service, connect to your pc from anywhere as if you were on the same network, main issue is battery drains like crazy when it's on”
- Ease of use: “So easy to set up and works flawlessly ✌️”
- Connection & sync: “Tailscale allows me to access my home PC on any WiFi without any of the port forwarding stuff”
Common complaints
- Login & account: “i cannot sign in or use the app in any way”
- Connection & sync: “Just doesn’t connect reliably”
- Crashes & bugs: “Will adjust once iOS bug is resolved”
- Speed & performance: “Latest update drains battery”
About Tailscale
Securely connect people, workloads, and even AI agents to anything on the internet with Tailscale, the secure connectivity platform built on WireGuard®. Tailscale brings identity to the network layer so you can control access based on users, groups, tags, and devices instead of IP addresses, applying Zero Trust principles end-to-end across every environment.
Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources.
Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform.
Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale.
Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture.
Tailscale integrates with 100+ technologies and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of platforms — including Apple’s macOS, iOS, and tvOS — so you can securely connect from wherever you work.
Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources.
Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform.
Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale.
Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture.
Tailscale integrates with 100+ technologies and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of platforms — including Apple’s macOS, iOS, and tvOS — so you can securely connect from wherever you work.
Latest updates
1.104.5
Fixed: Connectivity stalls affecting Tailscale SSH, Tailscale Serve, and tsnet on lossy networks are resolved.
Fixed: Tailscale SSH sessions no longer disconnect when a check mode approval expires.
Fixed: An issue that could cause Tailscale SSH restarts to hang or background tasks to terminate is resolved.
Fixed: Connection reliability is improved when the network reports an unreachable destination.
1.104.4
Fixed potential security concerns with Tailscale serve and ssh, see https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins for more details
1.104.2
Go is updated to version 1.27.3, to explicitly distrust compromised TLS intermediate certificates as described in security bulletin TS-2026-013.
Store changes
What Tailscale changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Needs a newer iOS
iOS 15.0 → iOS 16.6
Tailscale Android
Tailscale gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Tailscale is #120 in Tools Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 13 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperTailscale Inc.
CategoryTools
PriceFree
Released
Installs1M+
Rating★ 4.8 (5.1k)
Updated–
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
4.8 ★
5.1k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#120
Tools FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
68
▲ +39% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Tailscale on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.tailscale.ipn
Publisher
Tailscale Inc
Publisher country
Canada
Content rating
Everyone
Tailscale downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Tailscale's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | ToolsFree | #120 |
| Japan | ToolsFree | #133 |
| United Kingdom | ToolsFree | #139 |
| South Korea | ToolsFree | #105 |
| Australia | ToolsFree | #74 |
| Germany | ToolsFree | #142 |
| Canada | ToolsFree | #92 |
| France | ToolsFree | #148 |
 Netherlands | ToolsFree | #75 |
 Spain | ToolsFree | #145 |
| Italy | ToolsFree | #176 |
| Sweden | ToolsFree | #67 |
 Taiwan | ToolsFree | #140 |
Apps near Tailscale on the chart
Tools Free, around #120.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
5.1k ratings
Measured
Ratings
5.1k
Measured
Written reviews
387
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
68
▲ +39% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2
Google Play
Recent ratings
4.1★
vs 4.1★ lifetime
Review momentum
45/100
faster than 30% of Tools apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Tailscale
Securely connect people, workloads, and even AI agents to anything on the internet with Tailscale, the secure connectivity platform built on WireGuard®. Tailscale brings identity to the network layer so you can control access based on users, groups, tags, and devices instead of IP addresses, applying Zero Trust principles end-to-end across every environment.
Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources.
Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform.
Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale.
Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture.
Tailscale works with 100+ technology integrations and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of operating system platforms, including Apple macOS, iOS, and tvOS, Windows, Linux, and Android. Securely connect from wherever you work.
Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources.
Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform.
Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale.
Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture.
Tailscale works with 100+ technology integrations and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of operating system platforms, including Apple macOS, iOS, and tvOS, Windows, Linux, and Android. Securely connect from wherever you work.