clash-nyanpasu

Clash Nyanpasu is a free desktop app that turns a network proxy into a point-and-click dashboard. Instead of hand-editing config files, you load a subscription or profile, flip between servers, and route your traffic through them. People use it to control exactly how their internet traffic is routed, most often to get around network filtering or reach restricted resources. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, it's built on Tauri so it's light, and it's open source under GPL-3.0.

What sets it apart from simpler clients is the scripting layer. You can extend and transform configs with YAML, JavaScript, and Lua, swap between proxy cores (Mihomo, Clash Premium, a Rust core), and manage providers from a clean Material You interface. One thing to know: the app is only a client. It does nothing on its own. To get any value you have to bring your own proxy, either a subscription URL from a provider or a server you run yourself. Installing the app is easy; having somewhere to route traffic is the actual prerequisite.

It sits in the Clash Verge lineage, one of several descendants of that GUI tradition, and it's actively developed, though worth knowing the maintainers have gone a long stretch without cutting a stamped stable release while shipping current dev builds. For a developer who already has a proxy setup and wants a polished, scriptable way to manage it, this is a strong pick. If you're after a turnkey commercial VPN that includes the servers, this isn't that, and it isn't trying to be.

The catch is the bring-your-own-server reality. Nyanpasu is the steering wheel, not the car. It's also worth being clear-eyed that this is traffic-routing and circumvention tooling, so use it deliberately and within whatever rules apply to you.