Does a free alternative to Proxifier or ProxyCap exist?

Currently, I'm not at home so I must use the hotel's hotspot. Unfortunately, the majority of ports are closed, except 80, 443 and 22, and I would like to connect to my FTP, or connect Steam to play my games, etc.

I tested ProxyCap and Proxifier which redirected all my traffic to my sock server at home, but trials versions has expired, and I don't want to pay for something that I use a few weeks in a year. I know I can set the proxies settings in my Mac settings, but all the applications don't use it (like Steam).

Does a free alternative of ProxyCap and Proxifier exist on MacOSX?


Spotflux provides a managed and trusted connection to the internet that immediately reacts to and protects against emerging threats and unwanted tracking that affect mobile devices and desktop computers.

Another alternative exists in the form of extensions for Chrome & firefox:

  • Mediahint
  • Hola Unblocker

I have however only tried these extensions on the aforementioned web browsers on the Windows platform, and as yet have not tried them on OS X.


Try proximac. https://github.com/csujedihy/proximac

Proximac is an command-line open-source alternative to Proxifier. With Proximac, it can force App to use SOCKS5 proxy. In the other words, it can forward any App's traffic to a specified SOCKS5 proxy. Moreover, Proximac now can forward all network traffic in your system to a proxy which means you may not need a VPN to do this job. I hope more developers can join this project.


The alternative I use is Hotspot Shield

If you are running Steam, remember to launch it with -tcp as follows:

open /Applications/Steam.app --args -tcp