AppVPN review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Free / mobile app median 2.3
- Free / mobile app
- Jurisdiction:Singapore, outside 5/9/14 Eyes
- Owner:WCOMES shareholders in mainland China (TTP)
- Data completeness53%
- Checked2026-10-15
- No email to sign up
- Free plan
Red flag: Public security incident. A red flag caps the score at 6.0.
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Censorship bypass1.9 vs 0.5
- Network and streaming1.9 vs 1.7
- Security and protocols1.1 vs 1.2
Weakest against its segment
- Platforms and support1.1 vs 2.8
- Price and fair terms2.4 vs 3.4
- Privacy and jurisdiction2.3 vs 2.7
- Auto-renewal on by default
- Public security incident
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Free / mobile app services in the main ranking (80 services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
AppVPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.72.3
What earned points
- No-logs policy +2
- Independent no-logs audit +3
- No-logs confirmed in court +1
- Warrant canary +1
- Transparency report +1
- Sign-up without email +1.5
- Account number sign-up +0.5
- Stores connection IP (penalty) −3
- Public incident (penalty) −2
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Security and protocols20% of the score · segment median 1.21.1
What earned points
- Kill switch +2
- DNS leak protection +1.5
- RAM-only servers +1
- Post-quantum encryption +1
- Perfect forward secrecy +0.5
- Security audit +2
- Open-source clients +1.5
- 2FA +1
- Multi-hop +1
- Bug bounty +1
- Only PPTP / L2TP (penalty) −2
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Price and fair terms15% of the score · segment median 3.42.4
What earned points
- Free plan +1.5
- Free trial +1
- Trial without a card +1
- Crypto payments +1
- Cash payments +0.5
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Censorship bypass15% of the score · segment median 0.51.9
What earned points
- Stealth / obfuscation +2
- VLESS / Reality +1.5
- Trojan +1
- Hysteria2 +1
- Shadowsocks +1
- AmneziaWG +1
- obfs4 +0.5
- TUIC +0.5
- NaiveProxy +0.5
- Mirrors or Telegram channel +0.5
- VoIP in the UAE (claimed) +0.5
- Manual configs +0.5
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Network and streaming10% of the score · segment median 1.71.9
What earned points
- 10 Gbps servers +1
- Dedicated IP +0.5
- Port forwarding +0.5
- MENA locations +0.5
- Torrenting allowed +1
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Platforms and support10% of the score · segment median 2.81.1
What earned points
- Routers +1
- Browser extensions +0.5
- Split tunneling +1
- Ad / tracker blocker +1
- 24/7 live chat +2
- live chat +0.5
- Support on Telegram +0.5
- Status page +0.5
AppVPN pricing
The cheapest way in is €3.58 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, AppVPN renews at its standard price, the same per month as the first term. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Price per month over 3 years, Yearly plan
first termrenewalmarket median €3.13/momonths →
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep AppVPN running: the first term, then renewals at the published renewal price. Where no renewal price is published, plans shorter than a year are counted as repeat payments at the current price; longer plans show a dash after their term. Converted to euros at the rates used in our data (1 USD = €0.86). The lowest cost for each period is marked.
| Plan and first term | First payment | Then | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly, 1 mo | €6.87 | €6.87 / 1 mo | €82.46 | €164.91 | €247.37 |
| Yearly, 12 mo | €42.99 | €42.99 / 12 mo | €42.99 | €85.98 | €128.97 |
Compare AppVPN’s full cost with other VPNs, for any number of devices
All plans as published
| Plan | Term | Price for term | Per month | € / month | Renewal price | Renewal term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | 1 mo | $7.99 | $7.99 | €6.87 | $7.99 | 1 mo |
| Yearly | 12 mo | $49.99 | $4.17 | €3.59 | $49.99 | 12 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 0 (no cancellation of current period; refunds via Apple)
- Free trial
- 0 (none listed)
- Auto-renewal
- Yes
- How to cancel
- App Store settings, 24h before period end
- Payment methods
- Apple In-App Purchase
- Renewal note
- auto-renews; charged within 24h before period end; no refund for current period
Everything AppVPN publishes
Every fact we collected about AppVPN, as the provider and reviewers state it. Empty fields are left out; key fields we could not find say “Not stated”. “Partial”: only on some platforms, servers or plans.
Company
- Legal entity
- ARCNICE PTE. LTD. (current App Store seller); earlier WCOMES TECHNOLOGIES CO., LIMITED (HK)
- Registered in
- Singapore (seller); HK (WCOMES)
- Parent company
- WCOMES shareholders in mainland China (TTP)
- Related brands
- VPN Proxy OvpnSpider
- WCOMES
- arcnice.com
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- none
- Website languages
- Not stated
- Currencies on the site
- USD
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Monthly; Yearly subscription
- Billing terms
- 1; 12
- Cheapest price a month
- $4.17
- Monthly plan
- $7.99
- 1-year plan, total
- $49.99
- 1-year plan, a month
- $4.17
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Renewal
- auto-renews
- charged within 24h before period end
- no refund for current period
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Prices seen from other countries
- US store: monthly $7.99; yearly $49.99 (same as existing)
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes limited, connection time limits
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- No ad SDKs removed in v9.0
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- Apple In-App Purchase
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Apple Pay / Google Pay
- Yes Apple IAP
- Cryptocurrency
- No Apple In-App Purchase only
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes
- How to cancel
- App Store settings, 24h before period end
- Email needed to sign up
- No no registration
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 0 (no cancellation of current period; refunds via Apple)
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 0 (none listed)
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 18
- Servers
- Not stated
18 countries listed. A link opens our ranking of VPNs with servers there.
Europe 5
Americas 4
Asia and Oceania 7
Middle East and Africa 2
- Middle East and North Africa
- Israel; Turkey (no Gulf)
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- Yes dedicated servers for subscribers (claim)
- Static IP
- Not stated
- Residential IP
- Not stated
- Double VPN / multi-hop
- Not stated
- Tor over VPN
- Not stated
- SOCKS5 proxy
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuardNot stated
- OpenVPNNot stated
- IKEv2v8.5 notes✓ Yes
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolStealth protocol; SSL proxy protocol✓ Yes
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Other protocols
- HTTP proxy (dev reply)
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Not stated
- Open-source apps
- Not stated
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Yes Stealth protocol
- Countries it claims to work in
- Iran (user reviews; dev added HTTP protocol)
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Not stated
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
- Known incidents
- Yes
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Yes no logs, no PII stored - description
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Shared with third parties
- no sale/sharing with advertisers (claim)
- Trackers on the website
- cookie banner on arcnice.com (traffic analysis)
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Yes
- Privacy policy updated
- 2026-04-02
What the privacy policy says is collected
Yes: collected. No: not collected. Partial: kept briefly or only in part. Not stated: the policy does not say.
- Emailif account created: email, name, password; Sign in with Apple✕ Yes
- Connection IPtemporarily processed to establish connection, not stored after session (claim)◐ Partial
- Session timesNot stated
- Device infodevice type, OS version; not linked to browsing✕ Yes
- App analyticsApp Privacy: only Purchases (not linked)✓ No
Apps and devices
- WindowsNot stated
- macOS✓ Yes
- LinuxNot stated
- iOSiOS 18+✓ Yes
- AndroidNot stated
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TV✕ No
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
- App Store rating
- 4.5 (33K)
- Last app update
- Sep 5, v9.6
- App languages
- EN
- ZH-Hans
- ZH-Hant
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Netflix
- Not stated
- BBC iPlayer
- Not stated
- Disney+
- Not stated
- Prime Video
- Not stated
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- Not stated
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes appcobber@gmail.com
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Server status page
- Not stated
For teams and business
- SSO / SAML
- Not stated
- Admin panel
- Not stated
- Zero-trust access (ZTNA)
- Not stated
What users say
Reviews never change our score. Ratings are smoothed: a source’s average across all VPNs counts as 50 extra reviews, so a few five-star reviews cannot outrank thousands.
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App Store
3.54 of 5, smoothed
From 487 collected reviews (raw average 3.54; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 3.00 from 2.
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Google Play
3.98 of 5, smoothed
From 400 collected reviews (raw average 4.00; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 4.00 from 11.
The company replied to 15 of 90 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.51 (32934 ratings); Google Play 4.4 (19.7K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
35 Reddit and forum threads mention AppVPN (titles and search snippets only).
Latest reviews and related rankings
Latest reviews
Short excerpts with a link to the original. We do not reproduce reviews in full.
App Store · 5★ · 01 Oct 2026 · US
👌
App Store · 1★ · 08 Aug 2026 · US
bad
App Store · 4★ · 02 May 2026 · US
can't connect it😭🙏
Google Play · 5★ · 06 Oct 2026
You guys can do better coz you guys are great
Google Play · 5★ · 23 Sep 2026
best
Google Play · 2★ · 22 Sep 2026
tazegiha 10dq. yebar qat mishe
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about AppVPN
Answers built from what AppVPN publishes. Open a question to read the details.
AppVPN refund policy: how to ask for your money back
AppVPN refund window: 0 (no cancellation of current period; refunds via Apple).
Refund terms
- Conditions
- Not stated
- Refund on monthly plans
- Not stated
- Refund for App Store / Google Play purchases
- Not stated
- Refund for unused time
- Not stated
- Free trial
- 0 (none listed)
Try before paying
Refund policies of similar VPNs
How to cancel AppVPN and turn off auto-renewal
How AppVPN says you cancel: App Store settings, 24h before period end. Auto-renewal by default: yes.
Cancellation and renewal
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes
- Reminder before renewal
- Not stated
- Renewal note
- auto-renews; charged within 24h before period end; no refund for current period
- Bought in App Store or Google Play
- cancel in the store’s subscription settings
Without auto-renewal or price hikes
Cancelling of similar VPNs
Who owns AppVPN? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
AppVPN is run by ARCNICE PTE. LTD. (current App Store seller); earlier WCOMES TECHNOLOGIES CO., LIMITED (HK), registered in Singapore (seller); HK (WCOMES); parent company: WCOMES shareholders in mainland China (TTP).
Company
- Registered in
- Singapore (seller); HK (WCOMES)
- Related brands
- VPN Proxy OvpnSpider; WCOMES; arcnice.com
Jurisdiction
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In our rankings
AppVPN appears on 89 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Singapore-based VPNs#11 of 18
- Dedicated IP VPNs, no email#15 of 16
- Free VPNs with no ads#19 of 36
- Free iPhone VPNs without ads#19 of 22
- Free VPNs with a dedicated IP#21 of 22
- Ad-free free VPNs for Mac#23 of 27
- VPNs outside 14 Eyes with a dedicated IP#24 of 27
- Obfuscated + dedicated IP#32 of 34
- VPN servers in Taiwan#32 of 37
- VPN servers in Luxembourg#37 of 42
- No renewal price hike#42 of 60
- VPN servers in South Korea#45 of 57
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- VPNs for calls in the UAE#51 of 62
- Non-14 Eyes VPNs, no email#53 of 74
- VPN servers in Israel#53 of 57
- VPN servers in Mexico#54 of 63
- VPN servers in Turkey#55 of 61
- VPNs outside 14 Eyes with obfuscated servers#59 of 70
- Proprietary protocols#61 of 110
- VPNs with a dedicated IP#63 of 71
- Free VPNs outside 14 Eyes#66 of 123
- Obfuscated VPNs, no email#66 of 81
- VPN servers in Brazil#69 of 84
- VPN servers in Hong Kong#70 of 83
- VPN servers in India#74 of 94
- IKEv2#75 of 133
- Mobile VPN apps#77 of 178
- Free obfuscated VPNs#80 of 111
- Free VPNs without email#81 of 142
- Mac VPNs without email#86 of 93
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- Free VPNs for Kuwait#92 of 115
- Free VPNs for Oman#92 of 115
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- VPN servers in the UK#108 of 156
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- No sign-up VPNs#117 of 179
- No-logs VPNs outside 14 Eyes#118 of 143
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- iPhone VPNs for the UAE#141 of 158
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- iPhone VPNs for China#143 of 166
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Owner and jurisdiction
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15.
- Website
- https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/apple-offers-apps-with-ties-to-chinese-military
- Pages checked
- https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/apple-offers-apps-with-ties-to-chinese-military; https://apps.apple.com/app/id1004216430
- Other sources used
- collects_*/privacy_policy_updated/email_tickets/third_party_sharing/app_analytics: https://www.arcnice.com/legacy/privacy_policy_vpn.html; money_back/crypto/trial: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/best-vpn-proxy-appvpn/id1004216430; parent_company/site_trackers: https://www.arcnice.com/; claims_works_in: App Store reviews on same listing
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| When (UTC) | Field | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | rank_consumer | 302 | 301 |