Shard

Serverless DPI/SNI circumvention with a built-in video downloader — for Windows and Android.

Shard unblocks sites without a proxy, a VPN, or any third party. It rewrites the outgoing handshake locally so a filter can no longer read which host you are reaching, then gets out of the way. Because nothing is tunnelled, it costs no extra hop and no measurable bandwidth. It also carries a browser, so the video a page plays can be saved to watch offline.

Shard changes what a filter can read, not who you appear to be. It gives no anonymity — your address is unchanged. When you need to hide your address too, its sibling Veil tunnels through your own server or Tor.

Features No server, no account, no VPN permission. The engine runs inside the app and touches only the traffic you browse through it. One window. Engine switch, browser, and library in a single surface. Video & audio downloads. Captures HLS/DASH streams and YouTube formats, muxes them locally (no FFmpeg), and files them in your Movies/Music folders. Offline library. Folders, thumbnails, embedded cover art, and a player with resume, ordered/shuffle playback, and background audio. Shared core. The bypass engine, parser, and muxer are one Rust codebase behind both the Windows and Android builds.