Profiles and Nodes

Profiles & Nodes

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Profiles

A profile is one imported subscription (or config file). The Profiles tab lists them all; the one marked Active is the one in use.

Managing profiles

• Add — ＋ Add subscription (URL) or import from a file.
• Activate — tap a profile card. If the VPN is on, ClashFest reloads the new profile's config live.
• Update — pull to refresh, tap the profile's refresh icon, or Update all at once. Updating re-downloads the config and keeps your node selections where possible.
• Rename / delete / export — open the profile's overflow (⋮) menu.

Proxy groups

Each profile card can expand a Proxy groups view — the groups defined in your config (e.g. PROXY, an auto/url-test group, country groups). The card summary shows the currently selected Group · Server.

Nodes

A node is a single server. Your config organises nodes into groups:

• Selector — you manually pick one node/subgroup.
• URL-Test / Fallback / Load-Balance — the group picks a node automatically (fastest / first-alive / balanced). These often show as an Auto entry.

Choosing a node

1. On Home, tap the Node row (or open a profile's Proxy groups).
2. The picker shows the group tabs at the top and the nodes below.
3. Tap Ping to health-check and see latency per node.
4. Tap a node to select it. The check mark moves and Home updates.

Search and Config order / Current group sorting help when a subscription has hundreds of nodes.

Rule vs Global mode

The Mode toggle on Home decides how much traffic uses the proxy:

Mode	Behaviour
Rule	Traffic follows the config's routing rules — some domains/IPs go direct, some through the proxy. The normal, efficient choice.
Global	Everything goes through the selected proxy, ignoring rules.

Some operators lock the app to Rule and hide the Global button (a policy setting). That's intentional on those subscriptions.

Switching profiles while connected

You can switch the active profile without disconnecting — ClashFest reloads the engine to the new profile's config, and the Home node updates to the new profile's selection.

Related

• Routing & Rules — customise what Rule mode does
• Getting Started