84 PCWorld APRIL 2019FEATURE BEST VPNS FOR ANDROID
can pinch to zoom to choose a server location,
but if you scroll down the app you can pick a
country location from an alphabetical list. Once
you click on a country, you can either stick with
the first server NordVPN picks for you, or scroll
down another list to choose from all possible
servers in that location.
For added features, NordVPN offers
malware protection that is activated by default.
It also has all the various features that are
present in the desktop version including P2P
file-sharing servers, double-hop connections,
dedicated IPs, and TOR over VPN.
NordVPN’s privacy policy says it doesn’t
log any of your activity and charges $84 per
year, or you can get three years for $108. It’s a
higher-priced VPN, but it’s also far more
feature rich than most services.BEST FOR ROOKIES:
TUNNELBEAR
If you are a VPN rookie (go.pcworld.com/tunl), I
highly recommend TunnelBear. For starters, you
don’t even need to pay to try it out since the
company offers 500MB of data per month for
free. That’s not a lot, but if all you need is a quick
hit on email or something similar then it can be
handy. TunnelBear has 22 country locations.
TunnelBear’s app has two main buttons.
At the top is an on/off button for the
connection, and at the bottom is the location
selector. The rest of the app shows a map of
your current or VPN-based location.
Dipping into TunnelBear’s settings thereare options to auto-connect on insecure
Wi-Fi, as well as protect against deep packet
inspection (go.pcworld.com/dpck) (dubbed
GhostBear), and an internet kill switch called
VigilantBear. Finally there’s SplitBear, a split
tunneling feature that keeps specific apps
outside of the VPN tunnel.
TunnelBear says it doesn’t log your
browsing activity, but it will log your OSTunndelBear for Android