VPN Shuttle review: score, privacy and prices
1.65
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 completeness33%
- Checked2026-10-15
- No email to sign up
- Free plan
In 10 seconds
Strongest against its segment
- Privacy and jurisdiction3.7 vs 2.7
- Security and protocols1.1 vs 1.2
- Censorship bypass0.0 vs 0.5
Weakest against its segment
- Price and fair terms1.2 vs 3.4
- Platforms and support0.6 vs 2.8
- Network and streaming0.9 vs 1.7
- 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 Shuttlesegment median
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Privacy and jurisdiction30% of the score · segment median 2.73.7
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 1.21.1
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 3.41.2
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 0.50.0
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 2.80.6
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 Shuttle pricing
VPN Shuttle does not publish a paid price we could read. Free plan: Yes ads. 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
- Google Play in-app
Everything VPN Shuttle publishes
Every fact we collected about VPN Shuttle, 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
- Shuttle VPN (individual dev)
- Registered in
- IN
- Address
- Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201009, India
- Surveillance alliance (5/9/14 Eyes)
- none
- Website languages
- Not stated
Plans, prices and add-ons
- Plans
- Free (ads); Premium (in-app purchase)
- 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
Limits and restrictions
- Devices at once
- Not stated
- Data limit
- unlimited (claim)
- Speed limit
- none (claim)
- Features locked to higher plans
- premium removes ads
Free plan
- Free plan
- Yes ads
- Free data
- Not stated
- Ads in the free plan
- Yes
Payment and subscription
- Payment methods
- Google Play in-app
- Bank card
- Yes via Google Play
- PayPal
- Yes via Google Play
- Apple Pay / Google Pay
- Yes Google Play
- Cryptocurrency
- No
- Cash
- No
- Gift cards
- Not stated
- Auto-renewal by default
- Not stated
- Email needed to sign up
- No no account, per store
- 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
- 20+ server locations (review: Softonic)
- 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
- Not stated
- Smart DNS
- Not stated
Protocols and encryption
- WireGuardNot stated
- 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
- Encryption
- "military-grade" (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 passed DNS leak test (review: Softonic)
- 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-log network"
- Independent no-logs audit
- Not stated
- Data retention
- debug data deleted after fix; else unspecified
- Shared with third parties
- none named; Play: none shared
- Transparency report
- Not stated
- Warrant canary
- Not stated
- Law enforcement requests
- discloses on court order/subpoena
- 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.
- Emailaccount✕ Yes
- Connection IPNot stated
- Session timestemporary (debugging only)◐ Partial
- Bandwidthaggregate✕ Yes
- Device infoDevice or other IDs, Play Data safety✕ 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
- Google Play installs
- 5M+
- Last app update
- 2025-12-31
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
- Yes claims lag-free gaming
- Torrenting
- Not stated
Support
- Live chat
- Not stated
- Live chat 24/7
- Not stated
- Email / tickets
- Yes shuttlevpn2019@yahoo.com
- 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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Google Play
4.54 of 5, smoothed
From 800 collected reviews (raw average 4.58; all VPNs 3.90). Last 90 days: 4.60 from 63.
The company replied to 0 of 60 negative reviews (1–2 stars).
Ratings shown on the platforms themselves: Google Play 4.6 (65.5K ratings).
Reviews per month, last 12 months
36 Reddit and forum threads mention VPN Shuttle (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 · 1★ · 12 Oct 2026
it doesn't work at all
Google Play · 5★ · 09 Oct 2026
nepal
Google Play · 5★ · 09 Oct 2026
good
Rankings by user reviews
Questions about VPN Shuttle
Answers built from what VPN Shuttle publishes. Open a question to read the details.
Who owns VPN Shuttle? Company, jurisdiction and related brands
VPN Shuttle is run by Shuttle VPN (individual dev), registered in IN.
Company
- Registered in
- IN
- Address
- Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201009, India
In our rankings
VPN Shuttle appears on 23 topic pages. Its place on each:
- Non-14 Eyes VPNs, no email#51 of 74
- Gaming VPNs#76 of 106
- Free VPNs outside 14 Eyes#83 of 123
- Mobile VPN apps#92 of 178
- No-logs VPNs, no email#102 of 132
- Free VPNs without email#110 of 142
- No sign-up VPNs#110 of 179
- No-logs VPNs outside 14 Eyes#115 of 143
- Android VPNs without email#116 of 143
- DNS leak protection#118 of 124
- Outside 14 Eyes#124 of 204
- Outside 5 Eyes#141 of 237
Show all 23
- Free no-logs VPNs#171 of 203
- Free VPNs for Android#176 of 225
- Pay with PayPal#180 of 211
- Free VPNs#204 of 282
- No-logs VPNs#249 of 389
- No-logs VPNs for Android#308 of 328
- VPNs for Android#391 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 VPN Shuttle
Closed services VPN Shuttle 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://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shuttlevpn.free.proxy.gaming
- Pages checked
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shuttlevpn.free.proxy.gaming; https://ravikumarandroid.github.io/shuttlevpn/policy.html
- Other sources used
- collects_device_info/third_party_sharing/plan_names/platforms: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shuttlevpn.free.proxy.gaming&hl=en_US; countries_count/dns_leak_protection: https://shuttle-vpn.en.softonic.com/android
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| When (UTC) | Field | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | rank_consumer | 384 | 383 |