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Free Vpns For Mac

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Some VPNs only support Mac as an afterthought, however, which automatically excluded them from this list. The Mac VPN programs can be downloaded from the provider’s website and in some cases through the Mac App Store. Logging policy – The first thing you should check before using a VPN is the service provider’s logging policy. This is to differentiate between the number of servers available on the premium (paid) plans and the free plan. Some VPNs that offer a free plan restrict access to free users to only a smaller selection of free servers. For all intents and purposes, however, a VPN with free servers is exactly the same as a 'free VPN'. Some of the worst free VPNs.

What you see here is a new full guide on how to choose the best free VPN in the second half of 2019.

We will help you to:

  • find a safe and free VPN;
  • make a choice between a VPN app and configurations for your OS;
  • learn all about the restrictions and hidden threats of free VPNs;
  • learn about better alternatives.

You just need to use our years of the VPN research experience that we will share in this guide.

7 best free VPN providers will be presented to you, and you will learn the answers to most of the questions that bother users.

To choose the best free VPN providers right, we implemented our innovative “VPN Spiral” method. We will tell you about it in this article. Then we tested the contenders thoroughly on all available platforms and compared our results to user reviews.

For your convenience, the article is divided into five chapters. There is also an additional chapter describing better alternatives, which we highly recommend you to look through.

What is actually a free VPN?

There is a certain confusion around the term of “Virtual Private Network” (VPN). It means both VPN technology itself and a service (or a provider) that offers this technology.

The term Free VPN means a definite service that allows using a VPN for free. It is logical to assume that this ability is not time-limited. However, this often isn’t the case. There are many VPN providers on the Internet who in reality charge money but offer a 1-7-day free trial while claiming to be free VPNs. It is just a trick to lure potential customers.

Services calling themselves VPNs but unrelated to virtual private networks pose a real threat to users. Usually, they provide software operating through a proxy server. Unlike real VPNs, such software doesn’t protect other apps on a given device. Besides, it’s impossible to estimate the security of such a service.

The ability to use a VPN for free can be provided in two forms:

  1. a full-fledged VPN app that connects to the provider’s VPN servers on its own,
  2. settings for third-party software (VPN client) or the OS. These settings allow the device to connect to the provider’s servers.

Also, there are unique VPN services such as VPN Gate that do not have their own VPN servers but instead use the PCs of the volunteer users who have special software installed.

So, a free VPN is a VPN service that provides software or settings for the free use of a Virtual Private Network.

Another term to learn is “a free VPN server”. It means an IP-address of a VPN server the access to which is provided by a free VPN.

7 best free VPN providers (with apps and without them)

Only free VPNs with unblemished reputation and a high enough level of service are on our list.

You won’t find too many popular free VPNs here. Their ratings turned out to be bogus. Alternatively, they provide proxy addresses passed off as a VPN.

We have chosen all the 7 VPNs with the aid of our VPN Spiral method. It helped us to determine the best providers without a mistake.

Warning! We cannot guarantee that you won’t be tracked, your private data won’t be provided to third parties, or that you won’t encounter an excessive use of your mobile Internet traffic when using free VPNs.

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1. ProtonVPN: The Best Free VPN

In 2017, the team behind the ProtonMail email service launched its own VPN service ProtonVPN. Admittedly, we take any new VPNs, especially free ones, with a great deal of suspicion. Too often do they rely solely on marketing and do not take their technical development seriously.

Two years later, however, we can safely say that ProtonVPN is a professional provider. It created and has been developing a high-quality product that is convenient to use.

We reckon that ProtonVPN’s free version is the best among the providers that offer VPN apps today.

Its main advantage is that it has both a free trial of the full version and a limited free version. The most unusual thing, however, is that these two are combined into one plan.

After you register with ProtonVPN, you get a 7-day free trial of the full version. After that period, the system automatically transfers you to the free limited version.

We won’t enumerate all the features of the trial version in detail here. That information you can find in our review of ProtonVPN (it is linked below). We’ll quickly go through the pros and cons of the free version.

ProtonVPN free version: Pros

+ unlimited traffic

+ acceptable speed

+ user-friendly multifunctional apps (with the exception of the app for Mac as it doesn’t have VPN settings)

+ no ads

+ Kill Switch (traffic blocking when reconnecting to a different VPN server)

ProtonVPN free version: Cons

- free version registration is overcomplicated

- only slower free servers in 3 countries are available:

  • United States (US)
  • Netherlands (NL)
  • Japan (JP)

- doesn’t work with Netflix

- no torrenting allowed

- limited app functionality on MacBook

Keep in mind that all the free VPN servers are quick to be blacklisted because of illegal activities of some users. And the fewer locations a provider has, the worse. To my mind, 3 countries are too few for a VPN but it depends on your goals.

To conclude, ProtonVPN offers a good free plan but the number of locations is lacking. Is it worth it to get the paid version? You can learn it by reading the full review of ProtonVPN.

You can download ProtonVPN for free from its official website, from Google Play Market, or from the Apple App Store.

2. hide.me: easy and efficient free VPN

Unlimited free traffic is a rarity. Free VPNs that offer limited amounts of traffic at unlimited speed are more frequent.

Hide.me is one such VPN provider. It offers 2 Gb of traffic per month.

But that’s too little, you might say, and it’s true. However, in recent years, the number of free VPNs decreased drastically so even 2Gb isn’t too bad today.

Besides, hide.me has an advantage: really fast (compared to most other free VPNs) server speeds and the possibility to use the service without providing your email address. Also important is the presence of free locations in Singapore and Canada, which isn’t a frequent occurrence.

Hide.me free version: Pros

+ relatively fast servers (2-9 Mbps)

+ kill switch

+ servers in Asia and Canada

+ can be used without registering an email

+ allows torrenting

Hide.me free version: Cons

- 2 Gb of monthly traffic

- no Netflix support

- 4 available countries:

  • Canada (CA)
  • Netherlands (NL)
  • Singapore (SG)
  • USA (US)

We do realize that hide.me offers too little traffic. However, it is a good tool for infrequent torrenting and unblocking websites with predominantly text content.

You can download hide.me for free from its official website, Google Play Market, or the App Store.

3. Windscribe: multifunctional free VPN

The most controversial free VPN on our list is Windscribe.

It has more pros than cons but a single con all but negates all the positives.

But before telling you what it is, I will list the advantages of Windscribe.

Windscribe free version: Pros

+ 10 Gb of monthly free traffic

+ 11 countries available:

  • United States (US)
  • United Kingdom (UK)
  • Canada (CA)
  • Netherlands (NL)
  • Germany (DE)
  • France (FR)
  • Switzerland (CH)
  • Norway (NO)
  • Romania (RO)
  • Hong Kong (HK)

+ wide range of VPN protocols:

  • IPSec IKEv2
  • OpenVPN (UDP и TCP)
  • Stealth (invisible to censorship)
  • WStunnel (invisible to censorship)

+ Choice of the DNS service provider:

  • default ones,
  • OpenDNS,
  • Cloudflare,
  • Google

+ kill switch

+ choice of 10 port variants

+ connection via a proxy

+ all features including the protocols are supported by the app for Mac

+ share a secure Wi-Fi hotspot

What can negate all these advantages? Just a single flaw…

Windscribe for Mac: Con

- speed of 0.02 – 0.6 Mbps

And 0.6 Mbps is a top speed at that. The average is considerably slower.

At times, Windscribe does work and at times, it fails to load websites at all.

We included Windscribe in our Top 7 list for its advanced functionality. However, we can’t guarantee that you’ll manage to get it to work.

You can learn all about its features in the full review. You can download Windscribe from its official website, Google Play Market, or the Apple App Store (for iOS).

4. VPN Gate: great solution for advanced users

For the experienced and knowledgeable people, it’s possible to move beyond the use of ready-made VPN apps. For them, a wide list of VPN services that provide free VPN through system settings or manually configured third-party VPN software opens up.

Let’s take a look at what likely is the most unusual 100% free VPN service – VPN Gate.

Its signature feature is the fact that it doesn’t own any servers. In their place, the PCs belonging to volunteering customers are used. If you have a PC or Mac, you can become one of them.

With VPN Gate, you can access the Internet through a “server” in any country where there’s a running computer with VPN Gate’s special app. It is absolutely free!

This incredible user network was developed by the Japanese University of Tsukuba and is very popular in the oriental countries.

You do need some savviness and experience to use it. You can either install an app for Windows, MacOS, or Linux or use the settings for OpenVPN, PPTP, or IPsec.

Thanks to VPN Gate’s huge number of users, it’s really easy to find a suitable server location.

There is a significant drawback to it: a specific server may be turned off at any moment. There are servers that are always on. During our tests, we found out that some users show ads when you connect to their server to make money. However, they are in the minority. Most of the servers are just computers belonging to other users.

VPN Gate: Pros

+ unlimited traffic

+ almost any country in the world is available

+ choice of VPN protocols (including VPN Gate’s own SoftEther. Its promotion is the reason why the service was launched)

+ all features including the choice of protocols are supported on Mac

VPN Gate: Cons

- servers can go offline at any minute

- most of the available locations are in Asia

- slow speed on many locations

- no kill switch

- servers keep logs so this VPN isn’t a good fit for torrenting

As you see, not even such a hi-tech free service is without any drawbacks. Indeed, you need to waste a lot of time searching for an acceptably fast server. Even though their speed is shown in advance, that number differs from the real one.

Anyway, VPN Gate is an interesting and unusual free VPN used by several thousand people.

If you are interested in VPN Gate, you may read the full review of it or download the app or configuration files from its official website.

5. Turbo VPN: available only for mobile devices

TurboVPN can be used only by Android and iOS users. Of course, it’s bad news for Windows and Mac users, but it seems that it is one of the best free unlimited VPNs.

Pros:

  • Hides your IP
  • Reliable traffic encryption
  • No IP leaks

Cons:

  • Very slow speed
  • Torrenting
  • Lots of ads
  • Watching Netflix with paid tariffs only
  • Lots of ads
  • High prices and low quality services (for paid tariffs)

TurboVPN is very popular, but lots of 5* user reviews with no descriptions why the service is good at Google Play Market seems to be very suspicious. Usually it proves the fact that such ratings are fake. It seems that its users are offered to leave a good review in exchange for some privileges.

Still, TurboVPN is not so bad in comparison with other unlimited free VPNs.

6. X-VPN: good speed, but lots of restrictions

We suppose that X-VPN is a good alternative to TurboVPN which is compatible with Windows, Mac OS, mobile devices and has an app for Chrome and configurations for routers. But its desktop version is additionally limited in traffic consumption (500-1000 Mb per session).

Still, it’s hard to say that it’s VPN: we haven’t found any proves that X-VPN uses a VPN technology.

Pros:

  • Hides your IP
  • Compatible with PC
  • Torrenting
  • No IP leaks
  • Can be set up on Windows, Mac, Chrome and mobile platforms

Cons:

  • Data encryption is not proved (it’s dangerous to use in public Wi-Fi networks)
  • A lot of ads and intrusion of the paid premium subscription
  • Speed limitations and traffic consumption of the free version
  • Works with Netflix only with a Premium subscription (not verified)
  • High prices and low quality services (for paid tariffs)

X-VPN has been included in our Top 3 mostly due to users’ reviews. It’s good for China and other countries blocking VPN, not suitable for streaming HD video or watching Netflix. But you will manage to hide your IP and visit blocked sites.

Don’t rely on this service if you need confidentiality and data protection.

7. VPN 360: good, US location is only free

Like most of free services, VPN 360 doesn’t offer a desktop version. Besides, only US location is available. Still, you’ll get speedy connections for IPhone and iPad and rather user-friendly app. Android users won’t be pleased with such slow speeds. Still, speeds are higher than they are at TuboVPN and X-VPN.

Pros:

  • Hides your IP
  • Good speeds for iOS users
  • Easy-to-use apps
  • Stable apps
  • No IP leaks

Cons:

  • Only US location is free
  • No apps for Windows and Mac
  • No opportunity to watch Netflix and BBC iPlayer
  • No reliable protocols like OpenVPN are used
  • Obtrusive ads and pop-ups
  • Overloads your device’s battery

There is nothing more to say about VPN 360. It is not suitable for performing serious tasks like other free VPNs. It’s not stable and doesn’t work in the countries blocking VPN.

Read our UnblockUS review as an alternative to VPN 360.

Warning (IMPORTANT!)

There’s a serious danger while using free VPN services. To start using VPN, you need to set up special software. VPNs that offer free services don’t provide network configurations if you don’t set up their apps.

Upon that, you risk to set up these types of software along with VPN:

  • trojans,
  • malvertising,
  • riskware,
  • spyware,
  • adware.

(The information is taken from the research by CSIRO.)

Thus, you should be careful while choosing a free service. Don’t set up their software only on the basis of user reviews. They are often fake ratings and reviews. Researches on security often revealed the distribution of malicious software even by those providers with hundreds of positive reviews on the Internet.

Visit our Best VPN and Free Trial VPN sections where you’ll find the lists of secure VPNs that passed all tests. It’s the best alternative to free VPN.

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Here is the blacklist of VPN services that were exposed in distributing dangerous software (according to CSIRO research and user reviews from Google Play Market:

  1. One Click VPN
  2. SuperVPN
  3. VPN Free
  4. EasyOvpn
  5. Tigervpn
  6. RocketVPN
  7. sFly Network Buster
  8. Fast Secure Payment
  9. EasyVPN
  10. One Click VPN
  11. CrossVPN
  12. Archie VPN
  13. HatVPN

Those VPN providers were exposed in malware distribution. We extremely don’t recommend those VPN, no matter some of them are very popular.

It’s worth mentioning that even the best providers of free VPNs make money off advertising: pop-ups, banners, messages. They can embed ads in the websites you visit. Anyway, the amount of ads is amazing!

It often leads to the overuse of traffic and slow network performance.

We don’t recommend you to set up free VPNs on smartphones. Additional ads and monitoring of your activities will not only slow down your connection but also will consume your traffic. You won’t be able to control this process. As the result, it will be more expensive than using a good VPN.Malware scanner for mac.

Besides, while installing a free VPN app, you will have to allow access to your photo camera, microphone, gallery, and some technical functions that increase privileges and opportunities on your device.

It may lead to surveillance after your activities without you knowing.

Here is the list of risks while using free VPNs:

  • Malware infection
  • Surveillance of your activities
  • Obtrusive advertising
  • Slow network speeds and performance of your device
  • Overuse of internet traffic
  • Selling your personal data to third parties

Free VPNs: FAQ

When doesn't free VPN work?

So, free VPN performs only basic tasks:

  • Hiding IP addresses;
  • Unblocking sites with text contents (not all of them).

When aren’t such VPNs efficient? The list is far longer:

  • Speedy access to the Internet;
  • Data access;
  • Unblocking streaming services like Netflix;
  • Accessing the Internet from the countries blocking VPN;
  • Stable app performance for a long period of time;
  • Compatibility with Windows 7, Windows 10 and Mac OS;
  • Blocking ads;
  • Anonymous use of the Internet (VPN use without surveillance and logging personal data is meant);
  • Double VPN;
  • Dedicated IP;
  • Configurations for routers and other devices;
  • Saving mobile traffic.

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Besides, as a rule, IP addresses belonged to free VPN are known as its number is far less than the number of paid ones.

That’s why you will probably fail to unblock some sites that block public the lists of socks and well-known VPN servers.

Nevertheless, Google and other sites using Google captcha (almost all big sites and social network included), will ask you to confirm you aren’t a robot.

After testing lots of VPNs, we understood what it means to confirm your actions each time you enter information and some other actions, that’s terrible!

Is there a free alternative to free VPNs?

‘’But I want to hide my IP for free, and I’m sure it’s real!’’ And you are right! There three ways of using a quality VPN proxy for free.

  1. Free Trial VPN (up to 30 days)
  2. Use money refund of paid VPNs (up to 45 days)

Free Trial VPN is a free plan of good professional VPNs. It is usually a bit limited. You will use VPN without ads, securely, at fast speeds for a certain period of time (usually from a few months to a few days).

Still, when a trial period is over, you will have to choose a paid plan or cancel the subscription.

Pros:

  • Good speeds
  • Wide choice of locations
  • Other opportunities of VPN

Cons:

  • Probably, it won’t work with Netflix (to avoid servers that work for Netflix not being often blocked)
  • The period is limited or no opportunity to use a trial period one more time

Using money refund of paid VPNs is one of the best opportunities to use Virtual Private Network ‘’for free’’. You will have maximum set of opportunities, but some time later (from 7 to 45 days) you will have to cancel the subscription and refund money which will take from 7 to 30 days.

Pros:

  • 100% opportunities of the best VPN, including Netflix and some other additional services

Cons:

  • You will have to pay for the subscription
  • Money refund may take up to 30 days

Thus, there are three ways of using VPN risk-free when you download and set up software that may lead to the overuse of mobile traffic, malware infection and worse performance of your devices.

A few answers about free VPN

Where can I download free VPNs?

Depending on the platform you’re on, you can download free VPNs from the following sources:

  • Free VPN download for Windows: from the provider’s official website. For example, protonvpn.com.
  • Free VPN download for Chrome: from the official website of a provider that offers browser extensions. For example, windscribe.com.
  • Free VPN download for Mac: from the official website or the App Store. There are more details in our VPNs for Mac review.
  • Free VPN download for Android: apps of all the free VPNs that support this OS are available on Google Play Market.
  • Free VPN download for iOS:Apple App Store.

Every good free VPN provider has an official website with all the information necessary for a download. To use the app, you need to sign up. Most often, it’s done from the app itself. Otherwise, you can sign up on the official website.

Are there free VPNs for Windows?

There are lots of services that claim to be free and offer software for Windows 7, Windows 10, and older versions. However, just like with other platforms, it requires a thorough examination. Experience shows that not all of them can complete the VPN Spiral tests.

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Most of the providers in this guide are fully compatible with Windows. Moreover, their functionality is the largest precisely on that platform.

Historically, thanks to the universality of Windows, providers develop the most “loaded” software for this OS.

Here’s the list of the free VPNs among the 7 represented that have passed the PC tests:

  1. Hide.me

All the services mentioned above have free VPN servers.

What free VPN is good for torrenting?

When you download torrents, take into account the following:

  1. You might download copyrighted files and get a warning letter.
  2. Copyright trolls may reveal information about you to copyright holders.
  3. If your traffic is not encrypted, it can be observed by any torrent user within the torrenting network.

You can use any of the three services for torrenting. Still, speeds and stability won’t probably be good if you use Virtual Private Network for free.

We recommend you a free trial VPN for torrenting. Good speeds and choice of locations along with no ads will make your torrenting easy and secure.

How to choose the best free VPN for Chrome?

Not all free VPN services are available for Chrome, but still there some free variants. Why to use free VPN for Chrome?

At present, advanced hackers can monitor your browser history which contains your personal information. Not to reveal it, encrypted VPN connection is recommended.

We recommend only X-VPN for Chrome. Other providers offer either a low-quality VPN app or their reputation is tarnished.

But you can find a lot of VPNs for Chrome among paid VPNs at reasonable pricing (from $2 per month) if you don’t want to use the best VPN for free.

Is there free VPN for Linux?

Yes, but there are few of them. Try X-VPN for Linux. Still, we don’t recommend a free service for Linux. We recommend you to read our Free Trial VPN and Best VPN before you set up VPN for this OS.

Linux is known to be reliable and secure. Don’t compromise yourself using free VPN.

Can I use free VPN in China?

We haven’t found any proves that unpaid VPNs help to overcome the Firewall of China. Many services attract users for installing free apps, but after they do it, they understand that the service is not able to unblock sites in China or it’s possible only with paid plans.

Our VPN researches showed that prices for paid tariffs of ‘’free’’ VPNs are higher than the prices of good paid services, but the quality is far lower.

Even not all paid VPNs will overcome blocking in China that’s why don’t waste your time and use a good paid VPN.

For more details, read our Free China VPN Guide.

What is the best free VPN for Popcorn Time?

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Don’t know what stands for Popcorn Time? A few sentences about it.

It is a kind of free media player developed on the basis of bittorrent protocol. It is not available in all the countries, which is connected with the piracy (it is believed that there is much pirated content within the platform). It is blocked in the UK, Denmark, Israel and some other countries.

That’s why you need a VPN for Popcorn!

How to choose?

Free VPN for Popcorn Time should be:

  • not keeping logs;
  • providing strong protocols and encrypting;
  • with fast speeds;
  • available for torrenting.

Learn more from our review 'Popcorn Time VPN: Be Safe and Sound While Using it in 2019'.

What is the best free VPN for Netflix?

Netflix is almost the most popular US platform for streaming movies online. Though, Netflix is available in lots of countries, Netflix regional versions are different from US Netflix. If you want to unblock US Netflix, you need a VPN app for it.

Netflix company is strict about using the service via VPN and strives to avoid it. Free VPN connections are often not advanced enough and revealed by the company. If a VPN revealed, the user will see error code: m7111-1331-5059.

My recommendation: try a free version of a paid VPN and subscribe for the paid plan to unblock Netflix.

Get to know more from our review 'Free and best VPNs for Netflix: how to find and where to download them?'

What is the best VPN for Kodi?

Kodi is a worthwhile platform for entertaining, which has a lot if functions. I recommend you to use a free VPN for Kodi that will encrypt you traffic and make you private online.

Read my post about free VPNs for Kodi and get to know why to use a VPN for this platform and what VPN is the best for Kodi.

What is the best free VPN for Reddit?

Reddit.com is a cool famous virtual platform where people can discuss and express their opinions on various issues. Reddit users often discuss ambiguous topics, which lead to blocking of the website in some regions. For this reason, a free VPN for Reddit can be applied to access the platform where it is not available.

Another reason to use free Virtual Private Network for Reddit is privacy. You can hardly know what users there are on the network: common users or hackers. Thus, being private online when you visit Reddit.com is dead important. What is important while choosing a free VPN for Reddit is no-logging policy and strong protocol, for instance, OpenVPN (the most popular and reliable one).

The VPN Spiral method

There are quite a few VPN providers: some sources say, more than 300. But is it worth it to test them all? Our experience suggests that it isn’t. There are obvious signs that it’s better not to get certain VPNs.

Additionally, there are definite patterns that allow us to separate the strong players from the weak. In the VPN industry, it plays a huge part as the weak ones don’t have the resources to support their infrastructure and employ professionals.

During the years we’ve been in the VPN industry, we have developed our own market analysis method. We call it the VPN Spiral. It involves going through a spiral of sorts where weak providers gradually fall out. The more coils of the spiral they take, the fewer VPN providers remain.

At every coil, the remaining contestants are awarded a score based on how well they pass it.

There are a lot of coils. For example, asking if the provider has an official website, testing the app for viruses, seeing how popular it is on Reddit, and many more. At the spiral’s end, depending on the degree of refining, only a few services remain. They are then tested thoroughly. During the test procedures, they are installed on all supported platforms, and all of their available and expected features are checked. We test the servers for their speed and for IP leaks and conduct other tests.

As the result, we’re left with the selected few best free VPNs.

Here on cooltechzone.com, we also have rankings dedicated to specific tasks or platforms. To put those together, we have used the VPN Spiral method as well.

Here are just a few of them:

Alternatives

Free VPNs have one or more significant drawbacks (often all of the following at once):

  • slow speed
  • limited traffic
  • limited set of locations
  • user tracking
  • log keeping
  • selling user data to third parties
  • no Netflix and other streaming services support
  • no torrenting allowed
  • ads

What can you do if that’s not acceptable to you? Here is our list of Top 3 professional-grade cheap VPN services that come without the flaws above. You can also try them out for free. We assure you that they are worthy of your attention!

1. NordVPN: the market leader, a 7-day free trial on mobiles

While you can use a VPN with 3,4, or 11 locations and dubious speed, isn’t it better to opt into getting one with 5700 servers in 60 states at the speed of up to 80 Mbps?

NordVPN makes it all possible.

This Panamanian provider (and Panama is a safe jurisdiction) deserves to be placed first among paid VPNs. Still, it lacks free Windows and Mac versions.

It’s hardly a problem, though, if you’re okay with buying a subscription. You can get a refund within 30 days.

2. Surfshark VPN: super affordable, free on mobiles for 7 days

The best thing about Surfshark is that it is well-suited for the tasks that require maximum privacy and subtlety thanks to its MultiHop technology. It allows Surfshark to create two-server VPN chains in 15 variants.

Besides, it is all-purpose and has virtually the same functionality as NordVPN while costing even less.

As for its free use, Surfshark offers not only a 7-day trial but also a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Surfshark is based on the offshore territory of the British Virgin Islands. Thus, it is unlikely to be pressured into divulging its users’ private data by governmental agencies.

3. CyberGhost VPN: free trial on every platform

CyberGhost allows you to install its app on any platform, try it out for free for 24 hours, and forget about disconnections, slow speeds, and a ridiculously small selection of countries.

CyberGhost is a large and experienced Romanian-based VPN service. Romanian personal data protection laws are very strict. It will make your use of VPN unobtrusive and comfortable instead of a chore as is the case with free VPNs.

3700 servers in 60 states, dedicated servers for Netflix and torrenting, the kill switch function and many other features including a free trial of the full version make CyberGhost on of the best alternative to free VPNs.

What’s more, it offers a 45-day money-back guarantee.