Hotspot Shield Free VPN Proxy & Secure VPN
ToolsPango GmbH
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Works reasonably well; excellent support
There are times when my lifetime “streaming” subscription ($$$) fails to work correctly after the connection has been logged by the app as active for many hours (>9). It has not actually been active as the device is in auto screen off mode with no known background processes occurring. This problem can be resolved by either reinitializing the connection, selecting a new server location. As my host WiFi connection is also sometimes at fault, troubleshot by reinitializing the connection), it becomes a guessing game as to how to manually resolve the issue. I think this app has improved significantly from its earlier days, and that I would be hard pressed to find a better one considering the intrinsic challenges. Depending on your perspective it could deserve 5 stars (relative performance) or 4 stars (absolute). -
The BEST hotspot
I’m more than happy that I have downloaded this app, and for the free features it has a lot to offer! It’s accurate and doesn’t have any major flaws, practically FLAWLESS. It stays connected and I haven’t had any issues with it. I’m in highschool and as many know it my school blocks data use which forces us to use the school WiFi for even the most basic actions we make on our phones, and of course the WiFi blocks social media or (mostly) anything else that may be a possible distraction in class. I needed social media to keep in contact day to day for more serious situations other than just texting people to text. I needed school information or other important things outside of school and I was desperate for a decent vpn which I went through so many before I found this one and I am nothing other than pleased. If I had the money on pocket all the time I would for sure get premium. One big thumbs up on this one. It’s a keeper👍 -
A constant battle while in China
The VPN worked fine at home in the US, but not while I actually needed it. In Shanghai and Qingdao I needed to use the VPN for accessing any websites, translator apps, etc. that I could normally from home. It took me at least 10 minutes to get it to work every time, closing and restarting the app, trying from different servers *if* it connected, and often being told I had no internet (with three full WiFi bars) or that they were diagnosing problems & to try again later... which still didn’t work after 24 hours. Overall I was lucky if it even worked at all, let alone for longer than 5 minutes. It would often drop me from my WiFi as it “connected”, repeatedly, and caused me to go back through the whole process mentioned above every five minutes (or less!) I had success with this VPN only twice for 30 minutes; but it was hell to get it there. To think I payed $13 for this kind of hassle. What a waste. -
Happy I downloaded it.
So I’m not the type of person to review much unless I’m buying it but I def have to for this app. I love it. I downloaded 7 or 8 hotspot apps that were rated good but also had good ratings. However every single app (except for this one) required a membership which I did NOT want to pay for. Although this app has a premium offer as well, it is not required like many of the other apps which was a huge necessity for me. I was a little skeptical at first when I used it but it actually works seamlessly, even without the membership! There is all sorts of country’s to chose from and it doesn’t slow you down at all. I’m happy to recommend this to anyone. And if you do subscribe to the premium you will get even faster speeds and all sorts of other features. Definitely the best hotspot app. Highly recommended! -
Drops Connection
When it works this VPN barely hits my performance and I trust their payment model enough to believe they aren’t selling my data. That being said, the VPN itself is so unstable I wonder how much security I’m actually gaining. Two issues here: 1) The VPN randomly drops connection when online, and though it resets, I am obviously losing VPN status which I assume allows the sites I’m visiting to log my IP and activity while it’s down. 2) It’s hard to turn off. There are obviously circumstances where a VPN isn’t needed or desired, especially a free one. However, when I try to turn it off, this VPN often switches back on by itself and I cannot get it to remain off. In fact this is my second download. I deleted it the first time to see if that would fix the issue. However I see that I’m not the only one having that issue. Pro tip: don’t rely on this if you have something truly sensitive flowing over your traffic.
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The BEST hotspot
I’m more than happy that I have downloaded this app, and for the free features it has a lot to offer! It’s accurate and doesn’t have any major flaws, practically FLAWLESS. It stays connected and I haven’t had any issues with it. I’m in highschool and as many know it my school blocks data use which forces us to use the school WiFi for even the most basic actions we make on our phones, and of course the WiFi blocks social media or (mostly) anything else that may be a possible distraction in class. I needed social media to keep in contact day to day for more serious situations other than just texting people to text. I needed school information or other important things outside of school and I was desperate for a decent vpn which I went through so many before I found this one and I am nothing other than pleased. If I had the money on pocket all the time I would for sure get premium. One big thumbs up on this one. It’s a keeper👍 -
Happy I downloaded it.
So I’m not the type of person to review much unless I’m buying it but I def have to for this app. I love it. I downloaded 7 or 8 hotspot apps that were rated good but also had good ratings. However every single app (except for this one) required a membership which I did NOT want to pay for. Although this app has a premium offer as well, it is not required like many of the other apps which was a huge necessity for me. I was a little skeptical at first when I used it but it actually works seamlessly, even without the membership! There is all sorts of country’s to chose from and it doesn’t slow you down at all. I’m happy to recommend this to anyone. And if you do subscribe to the premium you will get even faster speeds and all sorts of other features. Definitely the best hotspot app. Highly recommended! -
Effortless simplicity
It just works. No drama. No noticeable additional latency (compared to not using a vpn at all) during use. No random disconnections or service interruptions of any kind. I am an extremely demanding, advanced user that puts my device and therefore it’s internet connectivity to the test on a regular basis and I can confidently say this is the best VPN I’ve ever used. It is rock solid with every day use and has not let me down for a single second during the last few months I’ve used it. I came from Speedify (and before that from Norton’s VPN service) and those were both a complete disaster reliability wise when compared to HotspotShield. I don’t know why I’m surprised but I am. If you want reliability and effortless setup/use, get this vpn. I’m serious, it’s the best. -
I never write reviews but!!
So I never write reviews at all. This is definitely going to be my first and last🤣 but seriously!! I had to write one for this app. So I’ve moved to a place with extremely slow WiFi, and the WiFi is unstable always turned off and on. I was searching for a vpn and I’ve heard about this but never tried it out, and let me tell y’all!!! When I use it my iPhone works 10 times faster , and WiFi doesn’t lag, and it’s not slow AT ALL anymore. I did not know that VPN can do this bc all the other vpn apps I’ve tried in the past has not worked like this AT ALL, other vpn apps made my WiFi slow. HONESTLY thank you so much I’m so happpyyyyy !!!🥰✨ and I %100 Recommend this vpn app -
China 🇨🇳 and my concern for security.
On my trip to Beijing, China, I prepared a plan for the whole week and enjoy my holidays to the fullest, but I worry about safety in a different country with other customs, culture and laws totally different to what I may be used to, it was in that moment where insecurity took hold of me. In summary China 🇨🇳 is a country that controls the communication and information of its inhabitants and its visitors under strict laws. Here the questions begin; How do I protect my personal identity information? How do I protect the information I have stored on my phone? How do I protect the banking or government information that I may have stored on my phone or through an application installed on my cell phone? How do I prevent someone from accessing my diary, medical information or malicious intent to track down my location? Questions that we ask ourselves every day, but when you are in another country it is very dangerous. Use between 8 to 10 VPN applications to have the experience and without a doubt, HotspotShield was the only VPN that met my expectations 100%.
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Works reasonably well; excellent support
There are times when my lifetime “streaming” subscription ($$$) fails to work correctly after the connection has been logged by the app as active for many hours (>9). It has not actually been active as the device is in auto screen off mode with no known background processes occurring. This problem can be resolved by either reinitializing the connection, selecting a new server location. As my host WiFi connection is also sometimes at fault, troubleshot by reinitializing the connection), it becomes a guessing game as to how to manually resolve the issue. I think this app has improved significantly from its earlier days, and that I would be hard pressed to find a better one considering the intrinsic challenges. Depending on your perspective it could deserve 5 stars (relative performance) or 4 stars (absolute). -
A few better options
This VPN is amazing, you can get passed many connections/wifi restrictions, However there’s one thing I would like for them to add. They’ve made it so that it impossible to connect the VPN to another country without paying, I’m no saying they should make it all for free, but let us have at least 3 countries. I use the VPN to bypass restrictions and other reasons, and I would obviously like to connect to other countries and such, so I think it’d be better if you at least have us 2 or 3 countries that we can connect the VPN to without paying. Besides that, everything else is amazing! -
Solid, but stop the pop-ups for Premium users
I really do like this VPN, it’s a great protection since I use public WiFi quite often in the week and full-time when traveling. It works as advertised. The only complaint is the almost-daily pop-ups that you have to swipe away to get into the app to enable/disable the VPN connection. In some cases I’ve had to get past two pop-ups asking to rate the program which wastes time when you want to quickly enable the VPN. As a Premium paying customer this is an annoyance and needs to be avoided and make the process as quick as possible. -
As a FREE VPN it works just fine.
I've bounced between a handful of other VPN apps and frankly this is my favorite so far. I'm a free user, so I'm not getting ultra high premium speeds, but for making things work properly on my school network, it's just fine. I also super appreciate the way it shows how much data I've downloaded/uploaded each session; this seems to reset a lot when it's in the background but it's still nifty, and I haven't seen other apps that do this yet. Is it perfect? No, but it has a great free tier that has handled everything I've thrown at it, when other VPNs have failed it just keeps trucking. -
It’s ok?
I notice a lot of people are having trouble discounting from the VPN, there most likely are going though the settings app. You actually have to go in the app to then disconnect it. But I also noticed that sometimes when I do turn it off and then back on, it keeps saying that I’m on my data plan and even when it’s connected, it doesn’t pop up VPN next to my WiFi! Also during this it also keeps saying on my settings that my WiFi is connected, but it doesn’t pop up and it doesn’t work! But when the VPN does work, it pretty chill.
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A constant battle while in China
The VPN worked fine at home in the US, but not while I actually needed it. In Shanghai and Qingdao I needed to use the VPN for accessing any websites, translator apps, etc. that I could normally from home. It took me at least 10 minutes to get it to work every time, closing and restarting the app, trying from different servers *if* it connected, and often being told I had no internet (with three full WiFi bars) or that they were diagnosing problems & to try again later... which still didn’t work after 24 hours. Overall I was lucky if it even worked at all, let alone for longer than 5 minutes. It would often drop me from my WiFi as it “connected”, repeatedly, and caused me to go back through the whole process mentioned above every five minutes (or less!) I had success with this VPN only twice for 30 minutes; but it was hell to get it there. To think I payed $13 for this kind of hassle. What a waste. -
Drops Connection
When it works this VPN barely hits my performance and I trust their payment model enough to believe they aren’t selling my data. That being said, the VPN itself is so unstable I wonder how much security I’m actually gaining. Two issues here: 1) The VPN randomly drops connection when online, and though it resets, I am obviously losing VPN status which I assume allows the sites I’m visiting to log my IP and activity while it’s down. 2) It’s hard to turn off. There are obviously circumstances where a VPN isn’t needed or desired, especially a free one. However, when I try to turn it off, this VPN often switches back on by itself and I cannot get it to remain off. In fact this is my second download. I deleted it the first time to see if that would fix the issue. However I see that I’m not the only one having that issue. Pro tip: don’t rely on this if you have something truly sensitive flowing over your traffic. -
Lots of buffering on BBC I player even though I have super fast broadband and ethernet connection. The UK server is not powerful enough or overloaded.
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VPN for gaming isn’t that fair
I have a couple complaints about the gaming option in the VPN, you have to pay just to open an Gaming VPN?, I have to delete this VPN I would recommend using VPN - Super unlimited Proxy VPN cause why do you need to pay in order to get an Gaming VPN and why Do 4 year olds need to pay for an subscription I know if their mom/dad was black or white ( not trying to be racist cause I’m black my self) the black moms wouldn’t Want to do that kind Of stuff just for an VPN for 4-any age year olds! This is all I have to complain about also theirs a lot of High prices. ( I would highly recommended to change the subscription for the month/year dollars to an lower price the cost is way too much money! ) -
Not bad but not great either
Tbh this app was great when a first got it last year on my other phone but still had some bugs now it still works for me but it still gives me problems such as it not connecting or taking me off the WiFi but when things as such start happening I reinstall the profile and it works also I can only activate it via settings instead of the app itself otherwise it starts connecting on its own But all in all it’s the best vpn that I’ve found that’s actually free and doesn’t require a subscription (although it does offer a premium subscription) it doesn’t give me any ads except from time to time when a connect it via app
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