diff --git a/pythonforandroid/recipes/pyproj/__init__.py b/pythonforandroid/recipes/pyproj/__init__.py
index 71b272d136..0c47b29514 100644
--- a/pythonforandroid/recipes/pyproj/__init__.py
+++ b/pythonforandroid/recipes/pyproj/__init__.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 
 class PyProjRecipe(CythonRecipe):
-    version = '1.9.5.1'
-    url = 'https://github.com/jswhit/pyproj/archive/master.zip'
+    version = '1.9.6'
+    url = 'https://github.com/pyproj4/pyproj/archive/v{version}rel.zip'
     depends = ['setuptools']
     call_hostpython_via_targetpython = False