Anonine VPN Review (2024)

Features

Anonine VPN is operated by Edelino Commerce Ltd, an IT company powering such VPNs as FrootVPN, Boxpn, and VPNTunnel.

Anonine offers native VPN software for Windows, Android, and iOS, and manual installation guides for MacOS and Ubuntu. The knowledge base is well-organized while the customer dashboard is a neat panel with all the information you may need – downloads, support, account information, and servers performance check.

The dashboard also offers shortcuts to manual installation guides and a handy configuration files generator. Here, you can manually check for which locations you need the config files, and download them. Likewise, you can download the entire bundle of servers, but that would make it difficult to navigate in the OpenVPN client. The important part is Anonine offers flexibility in user experience you will certainly appreciate. I did.

Their support is available via ticketing system, with a reasonable response rate. The FAQs are categorized, and I never had problems finding my answers.Anonine’s Windows VPN client is a breeze to use. The installation went smoothly while usability is top-notch. The main tab lists the countries, each with a drop-down selection of available servers supporting their own protocols. You can add your frequented servers to favorites.You can also connect using the quick connect button at the top and choose the preferred protocol. The icons at the very top indicate your location and IP depending on whether you are connected to the VPN or not.

Favorites grants you easy access to your most frequently-used locations, and the Connections Log helps you troubleshoot or send the logs to the Anonine support. Overall, Anonine’s interface is straightforward and easy-to-use – a click or two gets you where you want to be. Advanced users won’t be impressed with its bare-bones settings, however.

As I said, the app’s Settings tab contains nothing even remotely advanced – a choice of TCP and UDP ports, auto-reconnect if the connection is dropped, and a toggle to hide your identity when the app starts.

On the bright side, Anonine bundles a load of torrent-optimized servers and allows up to five simultaneous connections.

Pricing

One of Anonine’s biggest appeals is its affordable plans – $6.99 on a month-to-month, $5.99 per month on a three-month, and $3.99 per month on a yearly subscription. All paid plans come with the cross-platform native VPN client, 5 simultaneous connections, 800+ servers in 32 countries, unlimited bandwidth and speed, torrent-ready servers, and support for OpenVPN, IPSec IKEv2, L2TP/IPSec, and PPTP.

On the downside, there is no free or trial subscription, but the company says you’re safe with their 7-day money-back guarantee. It’s not unconditional, however. You must justify your wish to withdraw from the service, and it’s in the company’s sole discretion to make a decision whether to give you your money back, or not. It largely depends on whether your expectations of the service were “reasonable.” You can pay with credit cards, PayPal, Bitcoin, Global Payments, Payson, Perfect Money, as well as via Phone & SMS (in Sweden).

Tests

My performance tests went without a hiccup. The security leak tests could not pinpoint a DNS leak, WebRTC leak, or IPv6 leak:

My speed tests started well – the VPN did not affect my speed drastically on short-distance connections, but long-distance servers were understandably sluggish. My default speed was:

And here is Anonine’s US server:

UK server:

Australian server:

and Canadian server:

As far as streaming goes, Anonine delivers. It successfully unblocked Netflix:

HBO:

and even the Australian Channel 9:

But I had issues streaming BBC iPlayer. Even though BBC did not recognize I was coming from outside of the UK, it would take forever to buffer, and I couldn’t bypass that glitch no matter which UK server I’d choose:

Privacy and security

Anonine advertises a “nothing logged” stance on privacy, but their Privacy Policy fails the test. On the one hand, it states the provider doesn’t keep your online activity logs but fails to mention anything about your session data, which is connection times, your IPs, and bandwidth used. This is a serious omission on the part of the provider.The company collects your email address, payment data, Google Analytics data, Contact Us data you submit, and cookies. The company may disclose your information to third parties if legally compelled to do so while they fall under the Seychelles jurisdiction, which is relatively good when it comes to protection from data retention laws.

As far as their ToS are concerned, their refund clause is fairly disappointing despite the claims of a 100% 7-day money-back guarantee. You are obliged to have reasonable expectations of the service and prove Anonine failed to meet them to be eligible for a refund. That is extremely vague and uninspiring, especially considering there is no risk-free way to test the service if you are undecided.

On the security front, they use 128- and 256-bit encryption for OpenVPN, but you never really know which is used when you connect.

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