Pay for a year upfront and the price falls to an equivalent $5.75. Monthly billing (opens in new tab) is only only $9 – many VPNs charge $10-$13. You can set up and use the service wherever you like, as long as the devices are yours (the small print forbids sharing your account with others). There are no annoying limits on simultaneous connections, either. Upgrading to a commercial plan (opens in new tab) gets you unlimited data and access to all 110 locations. You're limited to 11 countries – North America, across Europe, and Hong Kong – but that's still far better than you'll get with many free services ('sorry, our free app only connects to Brunei, is that a problem?').

Windscribe's free plan (opens in new tab) offers a generous 10GB of data transfer a month if you register with your email address, 2GB if you don't. In addition to paid plans, Windscribe also offers a very generous free plan (Image credit: Windscribe) Windscribe pricing It’s good to see a VPN provider move beyond the usual identikit extras (do you really care if your app now has a Dark Mode?) and come up with some ideas of its own. But if you’re a journalist or a political dissident in a country where that’s very dangerous, then it should add a valuable extra layer of protection. Turn this on and the app creates huge amounts of fake traffic, making it far more difficult for anyone to pick out your real internet activity.ĭecoy Mode generates a lot of data, potentially many gigabytes per hour, so this really isn’t a feature for the average user.

The Android app has gained ‘Decoy Mode’, a unique privacy feature which protects against traffic correlation attacks (a method of identifying VPN users by monitoring the amount and timing of data uploads and downloads). This has security and privacy benefits as data can’t be left on the server for a lengthy period of time (it disappears whenever the server is rebooted), and the company also told us it brings significant speed benefits. The big news since our last review is Windscribe’s move to RAM disk-based servers, where data is stored in server memory rather than on hard drives. The Android app has a new ‘Decoy Mode’ which is an interesting privacy feature (Image credit: Windscribe) What’s new?

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