RiseupVPN

LEAP Encryption Access Project

About this app

RiseupVPN is open source, fast, secure, super easy to use, and free! You just install it and run it—zero configuration, zero registration. RiseupVPN does not require a user account, keep logs, or track you in any way.

VPNs help protect your privacy and secure your online activity, but it’s super important to use a trusted VPN provider. Riseup has been providing secure communications for decades and is a well respected and trusted provider of online communication tools (https://riseup.net).

OPEN SOURCE AND THIRD-PARTY AUDITED

Like any good VPN, RiseupVPN helps you to protect your internet traffic against mass surveillance, enhances your online privacy, and can help bypass censorship. RiseupVPN
– is third-party audited and uses only open source technology
– encrypts and protects your traffic from the spying eyes of your internet service provider
– secures your browsing traffic on public and private Wi-Fi networks
– hides your IP and your real location from websites and online services
– circumvents censorship and allows you access to blocked content

THIS IS A FREE, DONATION-FUNDED SERVICE

RiseupVPN is free to use and funded by donations from users like you. We believe everyone should have access to secure communication tools. Your donations keep RiseupVPN running. Thank you! https://riseup.net/vpn/donate

DEVELOPED BY OUR TRUSTED PARTNERS, LEAP

RiseupVPN is developed by our trusted partner, LEAP Encryption Access Project. Founded in 2012, LEAP is dedicated to giving all internet users access to secure communication. There are many fronts in the fight against the enclosure of the internet and the relentless efforts to surveil and monetize our lives. LEAP is part of the growing effort to expand the use of circumvention technology to protect us from government and corporate incursion into our online lives. https://leap.se

MORE TRANSLATIONS!

We want to continue to expand the use of VPNs, and translations are critical to this effort. Contributions to this effort are greatly appreciated and can be done here: Transifex project https://app.transifex.com/otf/bitmask/dashboard/


THE IMPORTANCE OF TRUSTED VPNs

At Riseup, we believe it is important for everyone to use some technology like VPN or Tor to encrypt their internet traffic. Why? Because the internet is being broken by governments, internet service providers (ISPs), and corporations. Read more about this here, https://riseup.net/en/vpn/why-is-needed, use our free VPN, and please don’t forget to donate so we can keep providing this valuable service.

TECH SPECS

– 100% Open Source, and third party audited by Cure53
– Built on Android's VPNService
– Uses OpenVPN with WireGuard coming soon
– UDP for fast connections, and TCP for more stability
– No IPv6 Leaks: will not leak IPv6 traffic
– No DNS Leaks: RiseupVPN is configured on both the client and the server to prevent any leaking of DNS.

Ratings and reviews

Used to work without issue and now unfortunately cannot connect at all. Updating certificate when prompted doesn't actually update, just sends into a loading loop with no resolution. Shows key icon in upper notification bar while in loading loop and prevents any connectivity at all. Will wait up to 20 minutes, still no connection. Haven't been able to connect at all for several months now.

Honestly a pretty good VPN for being free + not requiring an account. No data limits at all and the speeds are also decent. Only gripe is that it would be nice if there were more servers but this is a first install for any phone unless you have a paid vpn already. Bittmask should be the exact same experience under a different skin.

This is OK - if it's true what they say about logs, etc. The issues are that there are hardly any servers to connect to (which I could be good with), but it's not good at getting around restrictions, such as some public "guest" networks. Before someone yells "user error", other VPN's do, in my experience.

What’s new

features:
- provide support for quic as obfuscation protocol
- improve bridge hopping mode
bugfixes:
- reduce obfuscated connection failure rates after changing settings
- fix updating VPN certificate via APIv5
- fix minor UI bugs in location selection and censorship circumvention settings
- remove camera permission, since invite code scanning feature is not yet enabled for RiseupVPN