Guardian Firewall + VPN review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10#115 of 377 in the main ranking
Consumer VPN median 2.6
- Consumer VPN
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Founded2019 (copyright 2019-2026)
- Owner:DNSFilter, Inc.
- Data completeness93%
- Checked2026-10-15
- No email to sign up
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols3.6 vs 2.1
- Privacy and jurisdiction4.0 vs 2.7
- Censorship bypass0.5 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Price and fair terms1.8 vs 3.5
- Network and streaming3.0 vs 3.1
- Platforms and support4.2 vs 4.3
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
Compare Guardian Firewall + VPN side by side with other VPNs
How the score adds up
Six sub-scores, each against the median of Consumer VPN services in the main ranking (233 services). Open a line to see which published facts earned points and which were missing or not disclosed.
Guardian Firewall + VPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.74.0
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 2.13.6
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 3.51.8
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 0.50.5
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 3.13.0
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 4.34.2
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
Guardian Firewall + VPN pricing
The cheapest way in is €7.17 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, Guardian Firewall + VPN renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Price per month over 3 years, Essential monthly plan
first termrenewalmarket median €3.13/momonths →
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep Guardian Firewall + VPN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential monthly, 1 mo | €8.59 | €8.59 / 1 mo | €103.10 | €206.19 | €309.29 |
| Essential annual, 12 mo | €85.99 | — | €85.99 | — | — |
| Pro annual, 12 mo | €107.49 | — | €107.49 | — | — |
Compare Guardian Firewall + VPN’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential monthly | 1 mo | $9.99 | $9.99 | €8.59 | $9.99 | 1 mo |
| Essential annual | 12 mo | $99.99 | $8.33 | €7.16 | — | 12 mo |
| Pro annual | 12 mo | $124.99 | $10.42 | €8.96 | — | 12 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 30 days
- Refund conditions
- 30 Day Refund Policy (terms not read)
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- card (Stripe); Apple Pay; App Store; Google Play
- Renewal note
- no renewal fine print on page
Everything Guardian Firewall + VPN publishes
Every fact we collected about Guardian Firewall + VPN, as the provider and reviewers state it. Empty fields are left out; key fields we could not find say “Not stated”. “Partial”: only on some platforms, servers or plans.
Company
- Legal entity
- Guardian Firewall (part of DNSFilter, Inc.)
- Registered in
- US
- Parent company
- DNSFilter, Inc.
- Related brands
- DNSFilter
- Founded
- 2019 (copyright 2019-2026)
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- EN
- Right-to-left languages
- No
- Currencies on the site
- USD ($)
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Essential; Pro
- Billing terms
- 1; 12
- Cheapest price a month
- $8.33
- Monthly plan
- $9.99
- 1-year plan, total
- $99.99
- 1-year plan, a month
- $8.33
- 2-year plan, total
- No
- Lifetime plan
- No
- Renewal
- Yes renewal fine print on page
- Family plan
- Yes Pro: invite up to 5 family members
- Dedicated IP add-on
- No
- Port forwarding add-on
- No
- Double VPN add-on
- No
- Antivirus
- No
- Password manager
- No
- eSIM
- No
- Identity protection
- No
- Cloud storage
- No
- Other add-ons
- Pro: DNSFilter home network, curated blocklists, push alerts, VPN credentials export
Discounts and programmes
- Discount shown
- ~17% annual vs monthly
- Discount compared with
- 12x monthly
- Sale running when checked
- No
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Bonus months
- No
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 5 (Essential)
- Features locked to higher plans
- Pro: family sharing, config export, push alerts, curated blocklists
Free plan
- Free plan
- No
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- card (Stripe)
- Apple Pay
- App Store
- Google Play
- Bank card
- Yes Stripe
- PayPal
- No
- Apple Pay / Google Pay
- Yes Apple Pay; in-app stores
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- Cash
- No
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Local payment methods
- No
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- Email needed to sign up
- No optional, only for Pro web account
- Phone needed to sign up
- No
- Account-number login
- No random device identity
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 30
- Refund conditions
- 30 Day Refund Policy (terms not read)
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Instead of a trial
- No
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 43
- Servers
- 400+
43 countries listed. A link opens our ranking of VPNs with servers there.
Europe 25
- Albania
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Americas 8
Asia and Oceania 6
Middle East and Africa 4
- Middle East and North Africa
- AE; IL
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- P2P servers
- Not stated
- Obfuscated servers
- Not stated
Network features
- RAM-only servers
- Not stated
- IPv6
- Not stated
- Dedicated IP
- Not stated
- 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
- WireGuard✓ Yes
- OpenVPN✕ No
- IKEv2✓ Yes
- L2TP/IPsecNo
- SSTPNo
- SoftEther✕ No
- Own protocol✕ No
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMess✕ No
- Trojan✕ No
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUIC✕ No
- NaiveProxy✕ No
- obfs4✕ No
- AmneziaWG✕ No
- PPTP✓ No
- Encryption
- AES-256
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes Pro: export VPN credentials to other platforms
- Open-source apps
- No
Censorship and blocking
- Obfuscation (stealth mode)
- Not stated
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Not stated
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Yes
- Own DNS servers
- Yes DNSFilter resolvers
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Yes firewall: trackers, ads, page hijackers
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Yes Assured (2024 phase one); infrastructure audits Feb & Apr 2024
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Yes no DNS, activity, bandwidth, originating IP, connection metadata logs
- Independent no-logs audit
- No
- Shared with third parties
- no ad sharing; Stripe, Apple, Google payments
- Transparency report
- No
- Warrant canary
- No
- Law enforcement requests
- discloses when legally required (subpoena, court order)
- Anonymous sign-up
- Yes via app store, no email
- GDPR / data protection officer
- No
- Privacy policy updated
- 2024-11-06
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.
- Emailoptional (Pro)✕ Yes
- IP at sign-up✓ No
- Connection IP✓ No
- Session times✓ No
- Bandwidth✓ No
- Device inforandom device ID; purchase receipts✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✕ No
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✓ Yes
- Android TV✓ Yes
- Fire TVFireOS✓ Yes
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
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
- No
- Live chat 24/7
- No
- Email / tickets
- Yes contact form, help center
- Phone
- No
- Telegram
- No
- No
- Discord or forum
- Mastodon
- Support languages
- EN
- Help articles
- Yes help.guardianapp.com
- Server status page
- Yes status.guardianapp.com
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
3.39 of 5, smoothed
From 165 collected reviews (raw average 3.34; all VPNs 3.54).
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Google Play
3.37 of 5, smoothed
From 20 collected reviews (raw average 2.05; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 3.20 from 5.
The company replied to 1 of 15 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.61 (870 ratings); Google Play 2.8 (90 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
28 Reddit and forum threads mention Guardian Firewall + VPN (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 · 2★ · 14 Jun 2026 · US
Buggy
App Store · 4★ · 14 Jun 2026 · US
Good Overall
App Store · 2★ · 19 May 2026 · US
Terrible performance
Google Play · 1★ · 04 Oct 2026
For a company associated with Eero, essentially Amazon. .it's surprising how terrible the app is. Amazon should just switch providers.
Google Play · 1★ · 03 Oct 2026
worst vpn the doesn't work ... keeps asking to agree and confirm.. not sure why it's free with eero...
Google Play · 5★ · 01 Oct 2026
Analyze ip address to detect potential proxy servers, VPNs, or high-risk connections. upload very bad and slow download bad slow
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about Guardian Firewall + VPN
Answers built from what Guardian Firewall + VPN publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Is Guardian Firewall + VPN safe? Logging policy, audits and jurisdiction
Privacy and jurisdiction 4.0/10 and security 3.6/10 (segment medians 2.7 and 2.1). No red flag in our data. Independent no-logs audit: ✕ No.
In 10 seconds
- Jurisdiction in 5 Eyes
Privacy
- Jurisdiction
- USA, 5 Eyes
- Legal entity
- Guardian Firewall (part of DNSFilter, Inc.)
- No-logs policy
- Yes no DNS, activity, bandwidth, originating IP, connection metadata logs
- Shared with third parties
- no ad sharing; Stripe, Apple, Google payments
Security
- Kill switch
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Yes
- Encryption
- AES-256
- Security audits
- Assured (2024 phase one); infrastructure audits Feb & Apr 2024
- Open-source apps
- No
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
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Guardian Firewall + VPN not working? Common causes and what to check
4 things to check, built from what Guardian Firewall + VPN publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Check the provider’s status page for an outage (status.guardianapp.com).
Switch protocol in the app: Guardian Firewall + VPN lists WireGuard, IKEv2.
Try a manual configuration (Pro: export VPN credentials to other platforms).
Contact support: email.
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Live chat
- No
- Live chat 24/7
- No
- Telegram
- No
- Yes contact form, help center
- Status page
- Yes status.guardianapp.com
If it is blocked where you are
Guardian Firewall + VPN refund policy: how to ask for your money back
Guardian Firewall + VPN refund window: 30 days. Conditions: 30 Day Refund Policy (terms not read)
Refund terms
- Refund window
- 30
- Refund on monthly plans
- Not stated
- Refund for App Store / Google Play purchases
- Not stated
- Refund for unused time
- Not stated
Try before paying
Who owns Guardian Firewall + VPN? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
Guardian Firewall + VPN is run by Guardian Firewall (part of DNSFilter, Inc.), registered in US; parent company: DNSFilter, Inc..
Company
- Registered in
- US
- Founded
- 2019 (copyright 2019-2026)
Jurisdiction
In our rankings
Guardian Firewall + VPN appears on 104 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Firestick VPNs without email#7 of 9
- Family plans + ad blocker#8 of 19
- No-logs VPNs with a family plan#12 of 31
- Android TV VPNs without email#12 of 18
- VPN servers in Albania#12 of 15
- VPN servers in Nigeria#12 of 17
- VPN servers in Croatia#13 of 16
- Family plans with money-back#14 of 22
- VPN servers in Slovakia#14 of 20
- WireGuard + family plan#14 of 24
- VPN servers in Peru#16 of 21
- Server status pages#18 of 39
Show all 104
- No-email VPNs with money-back#19 of 36
- Family plans#20 of 42
- No-email VPNs with an ad and tracker blocker#20 of 42
- US-based VPNs#20 of 107
- Security audits#22 of 31
- Firestick VPNs with ad blocking#22 of 24
- VPN servers in Chile#22 of 40
- VPN servers in Colombia#22 of 31
- VPN servers in New Zealand#23 of 40
- VPN servers in South Korea#25 of 57
- Android TV VPNs with ad blocking#26 of 30
- WireGuard VPNs, no email#26 of 68
- VPN servers in Hungary#26 of 43
- VPN servers in Argentina#28 of 47
- VPN servers in Bulgaria#28 of 43
- VPN servers in Greece#29 of 42
- WireGuard VPNs for Firestick#30 of 35
- VPN servers in the UAE#30 of 54
- VPN servers in Mexico#30 of 63
- VPN servers in Portugal#30 of 46
- VPN servers in Ukraine#30 of 52
- Firestick VPNs with 30-day refunds#31 of 40
- Mac VPNs without email#31 of 93
- VPN servers in South Africa#31 of 55
- Windows VPNs without email#32 of 79
- VPN servers in Austria#32 of 60
- VPN servers in Ireland#32 of 63
- VPN servers in Israel#33 of 57
- WireGuard VPNs for Android TV#34 of 45
- iPhone VPNs without email#34 of 115
- VPN servers in Denmark#34 of 56
- VPN servers in the Czech Republic#35 of 57
- VPN servers in Belgium#36 of 61
- VPN servers in Finland#36 of 59
- Android TV VPNs with 30-day refunds#37 of 41
- VPN servers in Romania#37 of 64
- Android VPNs without email#38 of 143
- VPNs for Fire TV#39 of 58
- VPN servers in Hong Kong#39 of 83
- VPN servers in Brazil#40 of 84
- VPN servers in Norway#41 of 62
- VPN servers in Poland#42 of 80
- No sign-up VPNs#44 of 179
- No-logs VPNs, no email#44 of 132
- VPN servers in Switzerland#44 of 91
- VPN servers in Italy#45 of 88
- VPN servers in Sweden#45 of 93
- VPN servers in Japan#47 of 125
- VPN servers in Spain#48 of 99
- WireGuard + ad blocker#48 of 67
- VPN servers in Singapore#49 of 138
- VPN servers in Australia#50 of 127
- No-logs VPNs with an ad and tracker blocker#51 of 103
- VPNs for Android TV#51 of 73
- VPN servers in the UK#51 of 156
- VPN servers in the Netherlands#51 of 139
- VPN servers in France#52 of 137
- VPN servers in Canada#54 of 142
- Manual config files#55 of 118
- Ad blocker#55 of 129
- VPN servers in Germany#55 of 152
- DNS leak protection#56 of 124
- Money-back VPNs with an ad blocker#58 of 72
- VPN servers in the USA#58 of 178
- WireGuard + money-back guarantee#61 of 87
- IKEv2#63 of 133
- Mac VPNs with ad blocking#63 of 103
- Windows VPNs with ad blocking#64 of 99
- Middle East VPN servers#64 of 122
- No-logs VPNs with WireGuard support#69 of 159
- iPhone VPNs with ad blocking#69 of 116
- Mac VPNs with WireGuard#83 of 149
- No IP logs#83 of 191
- Windows VPNs with WireGuard#84 of 147
- WireGuard VPNs for iPhone#88 of 164
- Mac VPNs with refunds#88 of 149
- Windows VPNs with refunds#91 of 155
- No-logs VPNs#104 of 389
- No-logs VPNs for Mac#118 of 280
- WireGuard VPNs#118 of 192
- No-logs VPNs for Windows#119 of 267
- No-logs VPNs for iPhone#124 of 314
- VPNs for Mac#125 of 361
- 30-day money-back guarantee#126 of 174
- VPNs for Windows#127 of 357
- No-logs VPNs for Android#130 of 328
- VPNs for iPhone#132 of 411
- VPNs for Android#138 of 451
- Top VPNs on the App Store543 listed
- Top VPNs on Google Play543 listed
- Top VPNs on Trustpilot543 listed
- Worst VPNs543 listed
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Owner and jurisdiction
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://guardianapp.com
- Pages checked
- https://guardianapp.com; https://guardianapp.com/firewall/pricing/; https://guardianapp.com/firewall/locations/; https://guardianapp.com/privacy-policy/; https://guardianapp.com/policy/service-policies/
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