VPN Private 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:not stated, outside 5/9/14 Eyes
- Data completeness53%
- Checked2026-10-15
- No email to sign up
- Free plan
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Network and streaming3.0 vs 1.7
- Privacy and jurisdiction3.3 vs 2.7
- Security and protocols1.8 vs 1.2
Weakest against its segment
- Platforms and support0.6 vs 2.8
- Price and fair terms1.4 vs 3.4
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.5
- Stores session times
- Ads in the free plan
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.
VPN Privatesegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.73.3
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 1.21.8
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 3.41.4
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 0.50.0
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 1.73.0
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 2.80.6
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
VPN Private pricing
VPN Private does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes ads, AdMob; 2 ads per session claimed. Market median across the main ranking: €3.13 a month.
Refunds, trial and payment
- Refund window
- 2 (48 hours, via email; not after free trial)
- Refund conditions
- request via info@vpn-private.net within 48h of payment; free-trial subscribers not entitled
- Free trial
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal
- Not stated
- Payment methods
- Google Play in-app
Everything VPN Private publishes
Every fact we collected about VPN Private, 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
- VPN Private (company details withheld)
- Registered in
- UA
- Address
- 12 Hlinky St, Dnipro, Ukraine
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- none
- Website languages
- EN
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Free; Premium
- Prices shown in
- USD/GBP
- Cheapest price a month
- Not stated
- Monthly plan
- 16 USD / £11.49 (review 2018)
- 1-year plan, a month
- 7.60 USD / £5.42 (review 2018)
- Lifetime plan
- Not stated
- Family plan
- Not stated
Discounts and programmes
- Student discount
- Not stated
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- 1 (review 2018)
- Data limit
- No
- Speed limit
- No
- Torrenting / P2P policy
- Yes torrenting allowed (claim)
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes ads, AdMob; 2 ads per session claimed
- Free data
- Yes unlimited (claim)
- Free locations
- 20+ locations free (claim)
- Ads in the free plan
- Yes AdMob
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- Google Play in-app
- PayPal
- Not stated
- Cryptocurrency
- No Google Play billing only
- Cash
- Not stated
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- Email needed to sign up
- No no registration
- Account-number login
- Not stated
- Money-back guarantee, days
- 2 (48 hours, via email; not after free trial)
- Refund conditions
- request via info@vpn-private.net within 48h of payment; free-trial subscribers not entitled
Free trial terms
- Trial length
- Not stated
- Where the trial is offered
- Android (Google Play free trial promotion)
- Card needed for the trial
- Not stated
Server locations
- Countries
- 21 (site list)
- Servers
- Not stated
21 countries listed. A link opens our ranking of VPNs with servers there.
Europe 16
- Bulgaria
- Czechia
- France
- Germany
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Romania
- Russia
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Americas 2
Asia and Oceania 2
Middle East and Africa 1
- Middle East and North Africa
- none
- Virtual locations
- Not stated
- Own servers
- Yes claims in-house controlled network
- 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
- WireGuardNot stated
- OpenVPNreview 2018: OpenVPN for Android code, OpenVPN option✓ Yes
- IKEv2IPSec option (review 2018)✓ Yes
- 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
- Encryption
- AES-256 (claim)
- 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
- Not stated
- DNS leak protection
- Yes DNS/WebRTC leaks found (review 2018)
- Split tunnelling
- Not stated
- Ad and malware blocker
- Not stated
- Two-factor sign-in
- Not stated
- Security audits
- Not stated
- Bug bounty
- Yes vulnerability disclosure page (vpn-private.net/vdp)
Privacy
- No-logs policy
- No collects connection time/bandwidth, claimed anonymous
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- connection duration and daily data amount stored <24h (policy 2020)
- Shared with third parties
- AdMob ad ID (free); Firebase/Google Analytics
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Anonymous sign-up
- Not stated
- Privacy policy updated
- 2020-04-24
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 IP✓ No
- Session timesconnection time✕ Yes
- Bandwidth✕ Yes
- App analyticsFirebase, Google Analytics✕ Yes
Apps and devices
- WindowsNot stated
- macOSNot stated
- LinuxNot stated
- iOSNot stated
- 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
- 4.5 (500K reviews)
- Google Play installs
- 10M+ (2018)
- Last app update
- 2024-02-29
- App languages
- 17 UI languages (review 2018)
Speed, streaming and gaming
- 10 Gbps servers
- Not stated
- Netflix
- Not stated
- BBC iPlayer
- Yes worked (review 2018)
- Disney+
- Not stated
- Prime Video
- Not stated
- Gaming features
- Not stated
- Torrenting
- Yes
Support
- Live chat
- Not stated
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes play.vpnprivate@gmail.com
- Phone
- Not stated
- Telegram
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Response time (claimed)
- replied within 24h (2018)
- 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
3.58 of 5, smoothed
From 52 collected reviews (raw average 3.62; all VPNs 3.54). Last 90 days: 3.00 from 3.
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Google Play
4.35 of 5, smoothed
From 400 collected reviews (raw average 4.41; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 4.18 from 71.
The company replied to 0 of 43 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: App Store (US) 4.57 (352 ratings); Google Play 4.5 (500K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
48 Reddit and forum threads mention VPN Private (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★ · 24 Sep 2026 · US
Is not working anymore
App Store · 5★ · 02 Sep 2026 · GB
Mytel
App Store · 3★ · 20 Jul 2026 · US
Buggy
Google Play · 5★ · 15 Oct 2026
great app
Google Play · 5★ · 14 Oct 2026
Good for games
Google Play · 4★ · 13 Oct 2026
just changed profile this is bast VPN
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about VPN Private
Answers built from what VPN Private publishes. Open a question to read the details.
VPN Private refund policy: how to ask for your money back
VPN Private refund window: 2 (48 hours, via email; not after free trial). Conditions: request via info@vpn-private.net within 48h of payment; free-trial subscribers not entitled
Refund terms
- Refund on monthly plans
- Not stated
- Refund for App Store / Google Play purchases
- Not stated
- Refund for unused time
- Not stated
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Who owns VPN Private? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
VPN Private is run by VPN Private (company details withheld), registered in UA.
Company
- Registered in
- UA
- Address
- 12 Hlinky St, Dnipro, Ukraine
In our rankings
VPN Private appears on 51 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Torrenting VPNs, no email#14 of 16
- Bug bounty#21 of 24
- VPN servers in Lithuania#27 of 31
- VPN servers in Latvia#28 of 28
- Free VPNs for torrenting#32 of 37
- VPN servers in Luxembourg#34 of 42
- VPNs outside 14 Eyes for torrenting#35 of 42
- VPNs for BBC iPlayer#36 of 50
- VPN servers in Bulgaria#40 of 43
- Unlimited free VPNs#42 of 68
- OpenVPN services, no email#42 of 56
- VPN servers in Ukraine#42 of 52
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- VPN servers in South Africa#46 of 55
- Non-14 Eyes VPNs, no email#47 of 74
- VPN servers in Ireland#50 of 63
- VPN servers in the Czech Republic#51 of 57
- VPN servers in Romania#54 of 64
- VPN servers in Hong Kong#60 of 83
- OpenVPN for torrenting#67 of 81
- VPN servers in Italy#69 of 88
- VPN servers in Sweden#70 of 93
- VPN servers in Switzerland#71 of 91
- Mobile VPN apps#73 of 178
- Free VPNs outside 14 Eyes#74 of 123
- VPNs outside 14 Eyes with OpenVPN support#75 of 101
- Free OpenVPN VPNs#79 of 97
- VPN servers in Singapore#81 of 138
- VPN servers in the Netherlands#83 of 139
- VPN servers in France#85 of 137
- VPNs for torrenting#87 of 107
- VPN servers in Canada#88 of 142
- VPN servers in the UK#88 of 156
- VPN servers in Germany#91 of 152
- Free VPNs without email#94 of 142
- VPN servers in the USA#99 of 178
- Android VPNs without email#103 of 143
- No sign-up VPNs#104 of 179
- IKEv2#109 of 133
- DNS leak protection#109 of 124
- Outside 14 Eyes#116 of 204
- Outside 5 Eyes#132 of 237
- No IP logs#157 of 191
- Free VPNs for Android#158 of 225
- Free VPNs#178 of 282
- OpenVPN#184 of 242
- OpenVPN VPNs for Android#200 of 219
- VPNs for Android#368 of 451
- Top VPNs on the App Store543 listed
- Top VPNs on Google Play543 listed
- Top VPNs on Trustpilot543 listed
- Worst VPNs543 listed
Similar VPNs
- Ace VPN0.94
- ForUAE VPN0.94
- VPN Ultra1.24
Closed services VPN Private replaces
Services that shut down or moved, for which this is one of five live alternatives.
Sources and changes
Collected 2026-10-15.
- Website
- https://www.top10vpn.com/research/free-vpn-investigations/ownership/
- Other sources used
- site/free/locations/encryption/policy fields: https://vpn-private.net/ , https://vpn-private.net/locations , https://vpn-private.net/vpn , https://vpn-private.net/privacy , https://vpn-private.net/refund; play_rating/app_last_update/free_tier_ads: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=free.vpn.private&hl=en_US; prices/devices/openvpn/ikev2/dns/iplayer/app_languages: https://www.techradar.com/reviews/vpn-private
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| When (UTC) | Field | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | rank_consumer | 380 | 379 |