Karing review: score, privacy and prices
1.95
out of 10not in the main ranking (too little published data)
Consumer VPN median 2.6
- Consumer VPN
- Jurisdiction:not stated, alliance not disclosed
- Data completeness47%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Free plan
- Open-source apps
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Censorship bypass5.7 vs 0.5
- Platforms and support4.8 vs 4.3
- Security and protocols2.1 vs 2.1
Weakest against its segment
- Network and streaming0.0 vs 3.1
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.7
- Price and fair terms1.2 vs 3.5
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.
Karingsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.70.0
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 2.12.1
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 3.51.2
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 0.55.7
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 3.10.0
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 4.34.8
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
Karing pricing
Karing does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes client only. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- Apple App Store in-app
Everything Karing publishes
Every fact we collected about Karing, 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
- SUPERNOVA NEBULA LLC (App Store seller); Karing App, Inc. (site copyright)
- Registered in
- Not stated
- Related brands
- Clash Mi (clashmi.app)
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- Not stated
- Website languages
- ZH
- EN
- RU
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- free (donations)
- Cheapest price a month
- Not stated
- Monthly plan
- Not stated
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Family plan
- Not stated
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
- Affiliate programme
- No donations only
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes client only
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- Apple App Store in-app
- Bank card
- Yes via App Store
- PayPal
- Yes via App Store
- Apple Pay / Google Pay
- Yes Apple (App Store)
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- Cash
- No
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- Email needed to sign up
- Not stated
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Identity check (KYC)
- No
- Money-back guarantee, days
- Not stated
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- Not stated
- Servers
- Not stated
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- 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
- Yes Socks/HTTP
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuardclient✓ Yes
- OpenVPN✕ No
- IKEv2✕ No
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocol✕ No
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMess✓ Yes
- Trojan✓ Yes
- Shadowsocks✓ Yes
- Hysteria2✓ Yes
- TUIC✓ Yes
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Other protocols
- Clash
- Clash.meta (partial)
- V2Ray/V2fly
- sing-box
- Sub/GitHub subscriptions
- Perfect forward secrecy
- Not stated
- Post-quantum encryption
- Not stated
- Manual configuration files
- Yes subscription link / Clash config import
- Open-source apps
- Yes https://github.com/KaringX/karing
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
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Yes routing rule groups
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Not stated
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
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.
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timesNot stated
- App analyticsusage data; diagnostics (not linked, App Privacy)✕ Yes
- Crash reportsdiagnostics, not linked✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✓ Yes
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✓ Yes
- iOS✓ Yes
- Androidincl. HarmonyOS✓ Yes
- Android TV✓ Yes
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVtvOS 17+✓ Yes
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
- App Store rating
- 4.7
- App languages
- EN
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
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Yes https://t.me/KaringApp
- Not stated
- Discord or forum
- GitHub issues
- Help articles
- Yes FAQ, tutorials
- 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
4.07 of 5, smoothed
From 155 collected reviews (raw average 4.24; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 3.44 from 18.
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.61 (689 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
37 Reddit and forum threads mention Karing (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 · 1★ · 11 Oct 2026 · US
Даже с купленной подпиской приложение не грузится
App Store · 5★ · 06 Oct 2026 · US
Жор батареи
App Store · 5★ · 01 Oct 2026 · US
非常之好
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about Karing
Answers built from what Karing publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Who owns Karing? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
Karing is run by SUPERNOVA NEBULA LLC (App Store seller); Karing App, Inc. (site copyright).
Company
- Related brands
- Clash Mi (clashmi.app)
In our rankings
Karing appears on 107 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Open-source VPNs with Shadowsocks support#5 of 7
- Shadowsocks + Telegram support#13 of 18
- TUIC#14 of 14
- VPNs for censorship#18 of 59
- Free VPNs for Apple TV#20 of 24
- Free VPNs for Android TV#22 of 29
- Open-source VPNs with Telegram support#23 of 24
- WireGuard + Shadowsocks#25 of 32
- WireGuard + Telegram support#25 of 44
- Free open-source VPNs#29 of 35
- Shadowsocks + obfuscated servers#29 of 52
- Hysteria2#30 of 37
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- Trojan protocol#31 of 41
- VPNs with SOCKS5 proxy#31 of 38
- Free Shadowsocks VPNs#32 of 37
- Manual config files#32 of 118
- Open-source VPNs with WireGuard support#32 of 34
- VMess#32 of 47
- Obfuscated + Telegram support#33 of 55
- WireGuard VPNs for Apple TV#33 of 39
- Open-source VPNs with obfuscated servers#34 of 38
- Obfuscated VPNs for Apple TV#35 of 39
- WireGuard VPNs for Android TV#38 of 45
- Obfuscated VPNs for Android TV#39 of 44
- Free VPNs for Linux#41 of 65
- Free VPNs with Telegram support#42 of 47
- Shadowsocks#42 of 73
- Free VPNs for China#43 of 114
- Free VPNs for Egypt#43 of 111
- Free VPNs for India#43 of 111
- Free VPNs for Pakistan#43 of 111
- Free VPNs for Turkey#43 of 113
- Free VPNs for Bahrain#44 of 115
- Free VPNs for Kuwait#44 of 115
- Free VPNs for Oman#44 of 115
- Free VPNs for Qatar#44 of 115
- Free VPNs for Saudi Arabia#44 of 115
- Free VPNs for the UAE#44 of 118
- Split tunneling VPNs for Android TV#45 of 48
- Xray / V2Ray#45 of 72
- VPNs for Apple TV#50 of 64
- VPNs in Chinese#50 of 84
- Open-source VPNs#53 of 59
- VPNs with Telegram support#53 of 84
- Split tunneling VPNs for Linux#56 of 62
- VPNs for Android TV#59 of 73
- Windows VPNs for China#59 of 151
- Windows VPNs for Egypt#59 of 137
- Windows VPNs for India#59 of 137
- Windows VPNs for Pakistan#59 of 137
- Windows VPNs for Turkey#59 of 140
- Windows VPNs for Bahrain#60 of 142
- Windows VPNs for Kuwait#60 of 142
- Windows VPNs for Oman#60 of 142
- Windows VPNs for Qatar#60 of 142
- Windows VPNs for Saudi Arabia#60 of 142
- Windows VPNs for the UAE#60 of 144
- Obfuscated WireGuard VPNs#64 of 103
- WireGuard VPNs#68 of 192
- Free VPNs for Windows#70 of 131
- iPhone VPNs for China#71 of 166
- iPhone VPNs for Egypt#71 of 151
- iPhone VPNs for the UAE#72 of 158
- Android VPNs for China#74 of 186
- Android VPNs for India#74 of 170
- Free VPNs for Mac#74 of 141
- Android VPNs for the UAE#75 of 181
- Obfuscated VPNs for Linux#76 of 97
- Free WireGuard VPNs#79 of 87
- Obfuscated VPNs#80 of 192
- VPNs for travel to China#80 of 209
- VPNs for travel to Egypt#80 of 192
- VPNs for travel to India#80 of 192
- Linux VPNs with WireGuard#80 of 100
- VPNs for travel to Pakistan#80 of 192
- VPNs for travel to Turkey#80 of 196
- VPNs for travel to Bahrain#81 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Kuwait#81 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Oman#81 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Qatar#81 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Saudi Arabia#81 of 200
- VPNs for travel to the UAE#81 of 204
- Free VPNs for iPhone#83 of 178
- Free VPNs for Android#87 of 225
- Free obfuscated VPNs#92 of 111
- Mac VPNs with split tunneling#93 of 113
- Windows VPNs with split tunneling#95 of 111
- Split tunneling VPNs for iPhone#100 of 125
- Obfuscated VPNs for Windows#102 of 137
- Obfuscated VPNs for Mac#107 of 148
- Obfuscated VPNs for iPhone#112 of 151
- Mac VPNs with WireGuard#112 of 149
- Split tunneling#113 of 154
- Windows VPNs with WireGuard#113 of 147
- All platforms#117 of 170
- WireGuard VPNs for iPhone#118 of 164
- VPNs for Linux#127 of 203
- Pay with PayPal#168 of 211
- Free VPNs#183 of 282
- VPNs for Windows#186 of 357
- VPNs for Mac#191 of 361
- VPNs for iPhone#197 of 411
- VPNs for Android#203 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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Also similar to Karing
Closed services Karing replaces
Services that shut down or moved, for which this is one of five live alternatives.
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://apps.apple.com/app/karing/id6472431552
- Pages checked
- https://apps.apple.com/app/karing/id6472431552; https://karing.app
- Other sources used
- price free/platforms/protocols/subscription types: https://karing.app/en/faq; platforms: https://karing.app/en/download; support/github/telegram: https://karing.app/en/; vless_reality: https://karing.app/en/faq
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