NetShade review: score, privacy and prices
1.99
out of 10#256 of 377 in the main ranking
Consumer VPN median 2.6
- Consumer VPN
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Founded2002 (company; NetShade since 2003)
- Data completeness100%
- Checked2026-10-15
- Trial without a card
- Free plan
Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. A red flag caps the score at 6.0.
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Price and fair terms6.6 vs 3.5
- Censorship bypass1.9 vs 0.5
- Security and protocols2.5 vs 2.1
Weakest against its segment
- Platforms and support1.1 vs 4.3
- Privacy and jurisdiction0.0 vs 2.7
- Network and streaming1.0 vs 3.1
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Stores session times
- Stores connection IP addresses
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.
NetShadesegment 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 2.12.5
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 3.56.6
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 3.11.0
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 4.31.1
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
NetShade pricing
The cheapest way in is €2.08 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, NetShade renews at its standard price. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Real cost over 1, 2 and 3 years
What you pay to keep NetShade 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 | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited VPN + Proxy + SOCKS, 3 mo | €16.34 | €65.36at the current price | €130.72at the current price | €196.08at the current price |
| Unlimited VPN + Proxy + SOCKS, 12 mo | €50.74 | €50.74 | — | — |
| Unlimited VPN + Proxy + SOCKS, 36 mo | €128.14 | €128.14 | €128.14 | €128.14 |
| Proxy/SOCKS (no VPN), 12 mo | €24.94 | €24.94 | — | — |
Compare NetShade’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited VPN + Proxy + SOCKS | 3 mo | $19.00 | $6.33 | €5.44 | 15 (with auto-renew) | 3 mo |
| Unlimited VPN + Proxy + SOCKS | 12 mo | $59.00 | $4.92 | €4.23 | 49 (with auto-renew) | 12 mo |
| Unlimited VPN + Proxy + SOCKS | 36 mo | $149.00 | $4.14 | €3.56 | 129 (with auto-renew) | 36 mo |
| Proxy/SOCKS (no VPN) | 12 mo | $29.00 | $2.42 | €2.08 | 19 (with auto-renew) | 12 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 30 days
- Refund conditions
- Website purchases: full refund within 30 days via Support; App Store purchases refunded via Apple
- Free trial
- 10 days
- Card needed for trial
- No free 10-day trial, no signup required
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- credit card (Chase Paymentech); PayPal; Apple App Store
- Renewal note
- Opting into auto-renew saves $4-20: billed $49 now and $49 two days before expiry (1y VPN); cancel via Account page after first renewal
Everything NetShade publishes
Every fact we collected about NetShade, 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
- Rayner Software LLC
- Registered in
- US
- Address
- 1042 Country Club Dr #2A, Moraga, CA 94556, USA
- Founded
- 2002 (company; NetShade since 2003)
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- Not stated
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Unlimited (VPN+Proxy+SOCKS); Proxy/SOCKS
- Billing terms
- 3m
- 12m
- 36m
- Cheapest price a month
- 2.42 (proxy-only) / 4.14 (VPN 3-year)
- Monthly plan
- Not stated
- 1-year plan, total
- $59.00
- 1-year plan, a month
- $4.92
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Renewal
- Opting into auto-renew saves $4-20: billed $49 now and $49 two days before expiry (1y VPN); cancel via Account page after first renewal
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Prices seen from other countries
- USD: 90 days $19 ($15 w/ auto-renew)
- 1y VPN $59 ($49 w/ auto-renew)
- 3y VPN $149 ($129 w/ auto-renew)
- 1y proxy-only $29 ($19 w/ auto-renew)
- no monthly plan
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Unlimited devices on VPN plans (store)
- FAQ: one code up to 5 Macs in household + 5 iOS devices
- proxy plan up to 5 devices
- Data limit
- unlimited
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes limited
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Not stated
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- credit card (Chase Paymentech)
- PayPal
- Apple App Store
- Bank card
- Yes
- PayPal
- Yes
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- Email needed to sign up
- Not stated
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 30
- Refund conditions
- Website purchases: full refund within 30 days via Support; App Store purchases refunded via Apple
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- 10 days
- Card needed for the trial
- No free 10-day trial, no signup required
Server locations
- Countries
- 18
- Servers
- 24
- Server countries
- Not stated
- Middle East and North Africa
- Not stated
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- Own servers
- Yes dedicated servers, no shared/cloud
- 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
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuard✕ No
- OpenVPNMac; OpenVPN inside TLS wrapper with VPN subscription✓ Yes
- IKEv2IPSec/IKEv2 on iOS with VPN subscription✓ Yes
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolScrambler (extra encryption layer to hide VPN handshakes)✓ Yes
- VLESS / Reality✕ No
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- Shadowsocks✕ No
- Hysteria2✕ No
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- Other protocols
- HTTP/public proxies
- 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 Scrambler; OpenVPN inside TLS wrapper
- Countries it claims to work in
- Not stated
- Mirror sites or Telegram channel
- Not stated
- Calls in the UAE
- Not stated
Security
- Kill switch
- Yes
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Own DNS servers
- Yes NetShade DNS
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Yes no activity logs
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Shared with third parties
- No
- Transparency report
- Yes Transparency page
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- No disclosure unless compelled by search warrant or legal order
- 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 IPmost recent connection IP per account, for DDoS mitigation✕ Yes
- Session timestotal logins and time of most recent login✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windows✕ No
- macOS✓ Yes
- Linux✕ No
- iOS✓ Yes
- Android✕ No
- Android TVNot stated
- Fire TVNot stated
- Apple TVNot stated
- ChromebookNot stated
- Smart TVNot stated
- RoutersNot stated
- NASNot stated
- Raspberry PiNot stated
- Game consolesNot stated
- Browser extensions
- Not stated
- App Store rating
- 4.58
- App languages
- EN; TH
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Speed test in the app
- Yes
- 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 email support@raynersw.com / support form
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes Support/contact page
- 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
3.29 of 5, smoothed
From 52 collected reviews (raw average 3.06; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 1.00 from 1.
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.55 (177 ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
45 Reddit and forum threads mention NetShade (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★ · 15 Aug 2026 · US
Not easy to use
App Store · 1★ · 09 Jul 2026 · US
Frustrated
App Store · 1★ · 20 Mar 2026 · GB
Rarely works
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about NetShade
Answers built from what NetShade publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Is NetShade safe? Logging policy, audits and jurisdiction
Privacy and jurisdiction 0.0/10 and security 2.5/10 (segment medians 2.7 and 2.1). Red flag: Stores connection IP addresses. Independent no-logs audit: Not stated.
In 10 seconds
- Kill switch
- Stores connection IP
- Stores session times
- Jurisdiction in 5 Eyes
Privacy
- Jurisdiction
- USA, 5 Eyes
- Legal entity
- Rayner Software LLC
- No-logs policy
- Yes no activity logs
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Shared with third parties
- No
Security
- Kill switch
- Yes
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
Related rankings
NetShade not working? Common causes and what to check
3 things to check, built from what NetShade publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Switch protocol in the app: NetShade lists OpenVPN, IKEv2, Own protocol.
If the network blocks VPNs, turn on obfuscation (Scrambler; OpenVPN inside TLS wrapper).
Contact support: email.
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Live chat
- No email support@raynersw.com / support form
- Yes Support/contact page
If it is blocked where you are
NetShade refund policy: how to ask for your money back
NetShade refund window: 30 days. Conditions: Website purchases: full refund within 30 days via Support; App Store purchases refunded via Apple
Refund terms
- Refund window
- 30
- Refund on monthly plans
- Not stated
- Refund for App Store / Google Play purchases
- Yes
- Refund for unused time
- Not stated
- Free trial
- 10
Try before paying
NetShade free trial: length, terms and payment details
NetShade free trial: 10. Card needed: no (free 10-day trial, no signup….
Trial terms
- Length
- 10
- Card needed
- No free 10-day trial, no signup required
- Refund window
- 30
- Free plan
- Yes limited
Trials elsewhere
Who owns NetShade? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
NetShade is run by Rayner Software LLC, registered in US.
Company
- Registered in
- US
- Address
- 1042 Country Club Dr #2A, Moraga, CA 94556, USA
- Founded
- 2002 (company; NetShade since 2003)
Jurisdiction
In our rankings
NetShade appears on 119 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Unlimited-device VPN trials, no card#4 of 8
- Best value VPNs#8 of 73
- Free VPNs, unlimited devices#10 of 31
- Trial VPNs, unlimited devices#10 of 28
- Money-back guarantee, unlimited devices#15 of 26
- Obfuscated VPN trials, no card#15 of 28
- No-card trials with money-back#16 of 23
- Free VPNs, trial without a card#17 of 31
- OpenVPN trials, no card#17 of 33
- Cheap VPNs, no-card trial#18 of 35
- Cheap unlimited-device VPNs#19 of 31
- OpenVPN, unlimited devices#20 of 28
Show all 119
- Transparency reports#20 of 21
- Kill switch VPN trials, no card#20 of 28
- Unlimited devices#21 of 62
- VPN trials without a card#21 of 51
- No-logs VPN trials, no card#23 of 50
- Obfuscated, unlimited devices#25 of 27
- Free trial, no card#25 of 66
- Bahrain VPN trials, no card#27 of 29
- Egypt VPN trials, no card#27 of 28
- India VPN trials, no card#27 of 28
- Kuwait VPN trials, no card#27 of 29
- Oman VPN trials, no card#27 of 29
- Pakistan VPN trials, no card#27 of 28
- Qatar VPN trials, no card#27 of 29
- Saudi Arabia VPN trials, no card#27 of 29
- Turkey VPN trials, no card#27 of 29
- UAE VPN trials, no card#27 of 30
- China VPN trials, no card#28 of 33
- Kill switch VPNs with unlimited devices#28 of 31
- VPNs with SOCKS5 proxy#28 of 38
- OpenVPN VPNs with a trial#31 of 90
- Free VPNs with a premium trial#32 of 77
- Cheap VPNs with a trial#34 of 76
- Obfuscated VPNs with a trial#34 of 61
- Free OpenVPN VPNs#35 of 97
- Free obfuscated VPNs#37 of 111
- Trial VPNs with money back#38 of 82
- Trial VPNs with a kill switch#40 of 83
- Free VPNs with cheap upgrades#42 of 74
- Cheap obfuscated VPNs#43 of 68
- No-logs VPNs with unlimited devices#45 of 51
- Free VPNs with money back#46 of 64
- Cheap OpenVPN services#50 of 90
- Free VPNs with a kill switch#50 of 82
- No-logs VPNs with a trial#51 of 144
- VPN free trials#53 of 190
- Cheap VPNs with money-back#56 of 83
- Proprietary protocols#56 of 110
- 10+ devices#56 of 127
- Free no-logs VPNs#60 of 203
- Cheap kill switch VPNs#61 of 84
- Free VPNs#63 of 282
- OpenVPN + money-back guarantee#66 of 100
- Obfuscated + money-back guarantee#69 of 69
- IKEv2#71 of 133
- Cheap no-logs VPNs#72 of 137
- Cheap VPNs under €3#73 of 167
- Pay with PayPal#73 of 211
- US-based VPNs#76 of 107
- 30-day money-back guarantee#84 of 174
- Free VPNs for Egypt#87 of 111
- Free VPNs for India#87 of 111
- Free VPNs for Pakistan#87 of 111
- Free VPNs for Turkey#87 of 113
- Kill switch VPNs with obfuscated servers#87 of 92
- Free VPNs for Bahrain#88 of 115
- Free VPNs for China#88 of 114
- Free VPNs for Kuwait#88 of 115
- Free VPNs for Oman#88 of 115
- Free VPNs for Qatar#88 of 115
- Free VPNs for Saudi Arabia#88 of 115
- Free VPNs for the UAE#88 of 118
- OpenVPN + obfuscated servers#96 of 104
- Kill switch VPNs with a money-back guarantee#102 of 115
- VPNs under €5#103 of 280
- Kill switch VPNs with OpenVPN support#108 of 133
- Free VPNs for Mac#120 of 141
- Secure VPNs#122 of 142
- OpenVPN#124 of 242
- Cheap VPNs for Mac#129 of 137
- Free VPNs for iPhone#134 of 178
- Mac VPN trials#134 of 144
- Obfuscated VPNs for Mac#137 of 148
- iPhone VPNs for Egypt#138 of 151
- Cheap VPNs for iPhone#139 of 149
- iPhone VPNs for the UAE#139 of 158
- iPhone VPNs for China#141 of 166
- Obfuscated VPNs for iPhone#141 of 151
- Mac VPNs with refunds#142 of 149
- No-logs VPNs with obfuscated servers#143 of 150
- Kill switch#156 of 193
- Mac VPNs with a kill switch#159 of 162
- Obfuscated VPNs#163 of 192
- VPNs for travel to Egypt#163 of 192
- VPNs for travel to India#163 of 192
- VPNs for travel to Pakistan#163 of 192
- VPNs for travel to Turkey#163 of 196
- VPNs for travel to Bahrain#164 of 200
- iPhone VPNs with a kill switch#164 of 167
- VPNs for travel to Kuwait#164 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Oman#164 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Qatar#164 of 200
- VPNs for travel to Saudi Arabia#164 of 200
- VPNs for travel to the UAE#164 of 204
- VPNs for travel to China#166 of 209
- No-logs VPNs with OpenVPN support#172 of 191
- Mac VPNs with OpenVPN#180 of 198
- OpenVPN VPNs for iPhone#185 of 207
- No-logs VPNs for Mac#255 of 280
- No-logs VPNs for iPhone#273 of 314
- VPNs for Mac#314 of 361
- No-logs VPNs#325 of 389
- VPNs for iPhone#332 of 411
- Top VPNs on the App Store543 listed
- Top VPNs on Google Play543 listed
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- 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://alternativeto.net/software/unblock-all/
- Pages checked
- https://alternativeto.net/software/unblock-all/; https://alternativeto.net/software/netshade/about/
- Other sources used
- plans/prices/renewal/devices: https://www.raynersw.com/netshade/store; servers/countries/protocols/kill_switch/scrambler/dns/platforms: https://www.raynersw.com/netshade/; refund/devices/entity/platforms: https://www.raynersw.com/netshade/faq; logs/payment/disclosure: https://www.raynersw.com/netshade/policies; price_1m/price_24m_pm: https://www.raynersw.com/netshade/store; trial: https://www.raynersw.com/ (snippet Free 10 day trial. No signup required); vless/ss/hy2 (only OpenVPN on Mac, IPSec on iOS + SOCKS5/HTTP proxy): https://www.raynersw.com/netshade/faq; live_chat: https://www.raynersw.com/contact (snippet)
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