OLOW VPN review: score, privacy and prices
out of 10#303 of 377 in the main ranking
Free / mobile app median 2.3
- Free / mobile app
- Jurisdiction:USA, 5 Eyes
- Owner:APPNTAP Technologies LLC
- Data completeness80%
- Checked2026-10-15
- No email to sign up
- Free plan
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Security and protocols2.5 vs 1.2
- Price and fair terms3.3 vs 3.4
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction1.0 vs 2.7
- Network and streaming0.9 vs 1.7
- Platforms and support2.0 vs 2.8
- Jurisdiction in the 5 Eyes alliance
- Stores session times
- Ads in the free plan
- Auto-renewal on by default
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.
OLOW VPNsegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.71.0
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 1.22.5
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 3.43.3
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 0.50.0
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 1.70.9
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 2.82.0
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
OLOW VPN pricing
The cheapest way in is €2.57 a month, paid upfront for the longest term. After that term, OLOW VPN 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 OLOW 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 | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Month, 1 mo | €9.42 | €113.00at the current price | €226.01at the current price | €339.01at the current price |
| 1 Year, 12 mo | €43.24 | €43.24 | — | — |
| 2 Years, 24 mo | €61.71 | €61.71 | €61.71 | — |
Compare OLOW 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 term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Month | 1 mo | $10.95 | $10.95 | €9.42 | 1 mo |
| 1 Year | 12 mo | $50.28 | $4.19 | €3.60 | 12 mo |
| 2 Years | 24 mo | $71.76 | $2.99 | €2.57 | 24 mo |
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 30 (site claim; ToS: refunds at discretion, request within 30 days)
- Refund conditions
- ToS: payments non-refundable except where required by law; refund requests within 30 days, at company discretion
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal
- Yes
- Payment methods
- Not stated
- Renewal note
- auto-renews at end of each billing period unless cancelled (ToS 5.1)
Everything OLOW VPN publishes
Every fact we collected about OLOW 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
- APPNTAP Technologies LLC
- Registered in
- US (Wyoming)
- Address
- 5830 E 2ND St # 7000, Casper, WY 82609-4308, USA
- Related brands
- VPN Expert (dev name)
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- 5
- Website languages
- EN
- Currencies on the site
- none
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Free
- Billing terms
- 1m
- 12m
- 24m
- Cheapest price a month
- $0.00
- Monthly plan
- $10.95
- 1-year plan, total
- $50.28
- 1-year plan, a month
- $4.19
- 2-year plan, total
- $71.76
- 2-year plan, a month
- $2.99
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Renewal
- auto-renews at end of each billing period unless cancelled (ToS 5.1)
- Family plan
- Not stated
- Prices seen from other countries
- 1m $10.95
- 12m $4.19/mo ($50.28)
- 24m $2.99/mo ($71.76)
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 10 (pricing claim; features list says 5 devices per subscription)
- Country restrictions
- not available in China
- Prohibited by the terms
- illegal activity
- hacking
- malware
- harassment
- copyright infringement/piracy
- spam
- fraud
- CSAM
- DDoS
- account sharing
- reverse engineering
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free data
- Yes unlimited (claimed)
- Ads in the free plan
- Yes
Payment and subscription
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- Not stated
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Yes
- Email needed to sign up
- No
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 30 (site claim; ToS: refunds at discretion, request within 30 days)
- Refund conditions
- ToS: payments non-refundable except where required by law; refund requests within 30 days, at company discretion
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 5 (Softpedia, 2020)
- Servers
- 120+ locations (claim; footer also says 10,000+ servers)
5 countries listed. A link opens our ranking of VPNs with servers there.
Europe 2
Americas 2
Asia and Oceania 1
- Server countries, as published
- CA; SG; DE; NL; US (Softpedia, 2020)
- 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
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuardshown in homepage UI mockup✓ Yes
- OpenVPNNot stated
- IKEv2Not stated
- L2TP/IPsecNot stated
- SSTPNot stated
- SoftEtherNot stated
- Own protocolNot stated
- VLESS / RealityNot stated
- VMessNot stated
- TrojanNot stated
- ShadowsocksNot stated
- Hysteria2Not stated
- TUICNot stated
- NaiveProxyNot stated
- obfs4Not stated
- AmneziaWGNot stated
- 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)
- 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
- Yes
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Split tunnelling
- Yes
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Not stated
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- Partial logs approach claim; policy logs connection timestamps, duration, bandwidth for up to 30 days
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- connection logs ≤30 days
- account info subscription+90 days
- inactive accounts deleted after 12 months
- Shared with third parties
- none declared (Play Data safety)
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Yes no registration
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 timesconnection timestamps and duration, up to 30 days✕ Yes
- Bandwidthup to 30 days✕ Yes
- Device infodevice or other IDs✕ Yes
- App analyticsusage analytics✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- Windowsdownloadable app found (site footer lists Windows but link is a placeholder #)✕ No
- macOSdownloadable app found (site footer link is a placeholder #)✕ No
- Linuxdownloadable app found (site footer link is a placeholder #)✕ No
- iOSApp Store listing found (SERP); site footer iOS link is a placeholder #✕ No
- Android✓ Yes
- 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
- Google Play rating
- 3.9 (~102K reviews)
- Google Play installs
- 5M+
- Last app update
- 2026-10-14
- App languages
- 14 (claimed)
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
- Yes claim 24/7 Live Support; ToS says email/support portal during business hours
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes support@olowvpn.com
- Phone
- Yes +1 251-385-5941 (developer)
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Support languages
- EN (site language selector shows English)
- 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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Google Play
4.21 of 5, smoothed
From 791 collected reviews (raw average 4.23; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 5.00 from 1.
The company replied to 4 of 133 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Google Play 4.3 (102K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
23 Reddit and forum threads mention OLOW 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.
Google Play · 5★ · 04 Aug 2026
good ape
Google Play · 5★ · 06 Jul 2026
Awesome app for privacy and unblocking blocked content
Google Play · 5★ · 22 Jun 2026
good
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about OLOW VPN
Answers built from what OLOW VPN publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Is OLOW VPN safe? Logging policy, audits and jurisdiction
Privacy and jurisdiction 1.0/10 and security 2.5/10 (segment medians 2.7 and 1.2). No red flag in our data. Independent no-logs audit: Not stated.
In 10 seconds
- Kill switch
- Stores session times
- Jurisdiction in 5 Eyes
Privacy
- Jurisdiction
- USA, 5 Eyes
- Legal entity
- APPNTAP Technologies LLC
- No-logs policy
- Partial logs approach claim; policy logs connection timestamps, duration, bandwidth for up to 30 days
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- connection logs ≤30 days; account info subscription+90 days; inactive accounts deleted after 12 months
- Shared with third parties
- none declared (Play Data safety)
Security
- Kill switch
- Yes (yes (claim))
- DNS leak protection
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
Related rankings
OLOW VPN not working? Common causes and what to check
2 things to check, built from what OLOW VPN publishes about its apps, protocols and support. We do not test connections ourselves.
What to check
Update the app: the last update we saw is dated 2026-10-14.
Contact support: live chat, email.
Support when the VPN is blocked
- Live chat
- Yes claim 24/7 Live Support; ToS says email/support portal during business hours
- Live chat 24/7
- claimed (contradicted by ToS business hours)
- Yes support@olowvpn.com
If it is blocked where you are
OLOW VPN refund policy: how to ask for your money back
OLOW VPN refund window: 30 (site claim; ToS: refunds at discretion, request within 30 days). Conditions: ToS: payments non-refundable except where required by law; refund requests within 30 days, at company discretion
Refund terms
- 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 OLOW VPN? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
OLOW VPN is run by APPNTAP Technologies LLC, registered in US (Wyoming); parent company: APPNTAP Technologies LLC.
Company
- Registered in
- US (Wyoming)
- Address
- 5830 E 2ND St # 7000, Casper, WY 82609-4308, USA
- Related brands
- VPN Expert (dev name)
Jurisdiction
In our rankings
OLOW VPN appears on 33 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Unlimited free VPNs#33 of 68
- No-email VPNs with money-back#36 of 36
- Kill switch VPNs, no email#45 of 47
- VPNs with phone support#51 of 67
- Free VPNs with money back#62 of 64
- WireGuard VPNs, no email#65 of 68
- Free WireGuard VPNs#69 of 87
- Free VPNs with a kill switch#75 of 82
- Free VPNs without email#77 of 142
- US-based VPNs#80 of 107
- WireGuard + money-back guarantee#85 of 87
- Mobile VPN apps#96 of 178
Show all 33
- Android VPNs without email#99 of 143
- Kill switch VPNs with WireGuard support#100 of 104
- 10+ devices#104 of 127
- Kill switch VPNs with a money-back guarantee#113 of 115
- VPN servers in Singapore#121 of 138
- Split tunneling#123 of 154
- VPN servers in the Netherlands#124 of 139
- VPN servers in Canada#129 of 142
- VPN servers in Germany#133 of 152
- No sign-up VPNs#146 of 179
- Free VPNs for Android#149 of 225
- Free VPNs#150 of 282
- 30-day money-back guarantee#153 of 174
- VPN servers in the USA#155 of 178
- WireGuard VPNs#181 of 192
- Kill switch#183 of 193
- VPNs for Android#350 of 451
- Top VPNs on the App Store543 listed
- Top VPNs on Google Play543 listed
- Top VPNs on Trustpilot543 listed
- Worst VPNs543 listed
Owner and jurisdiction
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15. No changes recorded since the first import.
- Website
- https://olowvpn.com
- Pages checked
- ["https://olowvpn.com", "https://olowvpn.com/privacy-policy", "https://mobile.softpedia.com/apk/olow-vpn/", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.olovpn.app"]
- Other sources used
- plans, price_*, simultaneous_devices, servers_count, wireguard, kill_switch, split_tunneling, live_chat, money_back_days: https://olowvpn.com/; renewal_note, autorenew_default, refund_conditions, tos_prohibitions, live_chat_247: https://olowvpn.com/terms; nologs_claim, collects_*, data_retention: https://olowvpn.com/privacy; apps/support: https://olowvpn.com/ (rendered in browser; footer Download OLOW VPN links Windows/MacOS/iOS/Linux all point to #); ios: SERP OLOW VPN app store iPhone returned no OLOW listing; Android also has OLOW Lite VPN (com.olovpn.app_qa) on Google Play
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