82 PCWorld APRIL 2019FEATURE BEST VPNS FOR ANDROID
CyberGhost for AndroidAndroid as the PC. What’s great about
CyberGhost is that it has a wide range of
servers meant for getting around specific
geo-restricted services.
The app is really easy to use. All you have
to do is slide or tap the button in the center to
activate. By default, CyberGhost picks the
best VPN server based on your location. To
get around geo-restricted content, you haveT
here are so many VPN services out
there that it can often be
overwhelming. While that’s a good
thing for competition, features, and
pricing, it means choosing a VPN can be an
absolute nightmare. That goes double for
browsing the Google Play Store where it can be
difficult to see which services are legitimate and
which ones are outright scams.
That’s why we’re here to help. Over the past
few years we’ve tested a ton of VPN services
(go.pcworld.com/vpnn), looked at their privacy
policies, and checked out their extra features.
While our main focus was the PC, we’ve also
kept our eye on the mobile apps.
To determine the top five VPN apps for
Android we judged these apps on several
criteria. First, it had to come from a service that we
already gave at least a four-star rating on
Windows. This is especially important for speeds,
which were tested on Windows over ethernet
and not Wi-Fi, which can often have inconsistent
results. We also considered the Android app itself
and whether it was easy to manage, as well as
other criteria such as pricing and the number of
simultaneous devices allowed per account.BEST FOR INTERNATIONAL
CONTENT: CYBERGHOST
Romania-based CyberGhost (go.pcworld.
com/cybr) recently released upgraded
versions of its VPN service. The company
decided to take the uniform approach to
design, offering the same interface on