# Arti

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Arti and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for memory safety and for embedding Tor in other apps as a library. Caveat: whether it will still be maintained in five years.

## Why people recommend it

- Memory safety from Rust rewrite (2 comments): "the reasons are pretty convincing. The major reasons are, unsurprisingly, all around memory safety." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243912)) "Their experience with Rust was positive for all the commonly cited reasons" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243817))
- Embeds as library in apps (2 comments): "Arti is also designed to be embedded as a library in other apps" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46244027)) "want to import Tor libraries (like arti-client) in their code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262252))
- Improves Tor security (2 comments): "the reasons are pretty convincing. The major reasons are, unsurprisingly, all around memory safety." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243912)) "tor will be that much more secure now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867460))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Tor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tor.md): 202 recommend
- [Freenet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/freenet.md): 29 recommend
- [I2P](https://hackerapproved.com/p/i2p.md): 21 recommend
- [Hyphanet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hyphanet.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Arti", https://hackerapproved.com/p/arti/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).