Is Zip VPN free?
Yes. There is no paid tier, no trial and nothing to unlock later. The app is supported by ads, which is what pays for the servers.
Free on AndroidNo accountNo subscription
Keeps trying until it connects.
Free locations come and go. Most apps hand you an error and let you pick again. Zip VPN keeps the fastest ones queued up, and when one does not answer it moves to the next by itself, so the tap you made is the only one you make.
Android 7.0 and newer, version 1.0.17, published by Qikks Studio
Zip Vpn
Connected02:41:52
NetherlandsAmsterdam
Download1.2 MB/s
Upload184 KB/s
Change Server
Amsterdam185.107.57.5
CountriesDisconnectSetting
Tap Disconnect to run it again.
One tapBest Location sits at the top of the list. Tap it and the app finds the fastest server it can reach.
No accountNo sign-up, no email, no password, nothing to cancel later.
Six languagesEnglish, Español, Français, Deutsch, हिन्दी and العربية, switchable in Settings.
Android 7.0Runs on Android 7.0 and everything newer, phones and tablets alike.
Choosing
One tap, and it picks for you.
Best Location sits at the top of the list and needs nothing from you. Or open Countries, type a place, and take it yourself. The whole country comes with the choice, not a single machine inside it.
Search for a country or cityType as much of it as you can remember. The list narrows as you go.
Star the ones you keep coming back toFavourites and Recently Connected sit above everything else, so the place you used yesterday is the first thing you see.
Sort it the way you thinkBy response time, by speed, or plain alphabetical order. Each country shows how many locations it holds, and each city how many servers sit behind it.
Countries
Search For Country Or City
Best LocationAutomatically connect to the best server
Free Locations (52)
Japan19 Locations
Tokyo4 Servers
Germany8 Locations
United States10 Locations
When one goes quiet
It moves down the queue on its own.
A free location that worked this morning may be gone by lunchtime. Rather than pin you to one and fail, Zip VPN holds the country’s locations in order of how fast they answered, and works through them until one lets you in. You see a connection, not a queue.
The one that failed drops to the back for next time, so you stop meeting it first. And if you asked for Best Location rather than a country, the queue is every location we have, everywhere.
Japan19 Locations
- 1Tokyo4 Servers41 msno answer
- 2Toshima City2 Servers58 msno answer
- 3Niizo2 Servers63 msconnected
- 4Kego1 Server92 mswaiting
Connected on the third. You tapped once.
Off the Wi-Fi
It still connects on mobile data.
This is where free VPNs usually stop working. Mobile networks are stricter than home Wi-Fi about what they let through, and a lot of the locations that connect instantly on Wi-Fi never answer at all on a phone signal.
Zip VPN notices which kind of network you are on and asks for the locations that work there. Walk out of the house mid-session and it notices the switch and refreshes the list rather than serving you a stale one.
On Wi-FiEvery location in the list is fair game.
On mobile dataOnly the ones that actually get through a carrier, so the tap still ends in a connection.
Nothing to set. The app works out which list to ask for.
Your side of it
The switches that matter, and no more.
Six categories of settings, each one short enough to read in a sitting. The defaults are chosen so that the app is safe out of the box and nothing surprising happens on first run.
Kill Switch
Blocks all internet traffic if the VPN disconnects unexpectedly, so nothing slips out between one server and the next.
SecurityIPv6 Leak Protection
Holds back the traffic that would otherwise take a route around the tunnel. On by default.
SecuritySplit Tunneling
Pick the apps that should carry on using your normal connection. Your bank app can stay home while everything else travels.
SecurityAuto-Reconnect
If an established session drops, the app brings it back rather than leaving you unprotected and unaware.
ConnectionAuto-Connect on Start
Connect to the best server the moment the app opens. Off by default, because it should be your decision.
ConnectionNotifications
Five separate switches: connecting, connected, disconnected, errors, and a master over all of them.
NotificationsWithout opening it
A tile and a widget, both one tap.
Once the app has run once, you rarely need to open it again. Pull down the shade and the tile is there; leave the widget on a home screen and it shows whether you are connected and turns it off in a tap.
Come back to the app mid-session and it finds the session already running and picks the clock up where it was, rather than dropping you on a blank home screen.
Quick Settings tile
Sits with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and reads Connected or Disconnected underneath. Tapping it while connected drops the tunnel there and then.
Home-screen widget
The same toggle, kept where you can see it. It updates itself as the connection changes.
On the phone
Black, and one green.
There is no light theme, and that is on purpose: a VPN is a thing you glance at, usually in the dark, and one bright green against near-black tells you the state from across a room.
Everything else
The full list.
Grouped the way the app groups itself, with the count beside each group so you can see how deep it goes before you install.
Connection
5- Auto-Connect on Start
- Auto-Reconnect
- Connection Timeout, 10 to 60 seconds
- Default Server: Best Location or Last Connected
- Server Sorting: by ping, by speed or alphabetically
Security
3- Kill Switch
- IPv6 Leak Protection
- Split Tunneling, app by app
Countries
7- Search for a country or city
- Best Location, at the top of the list
- Favourites, starred a country at a time
- Recently Connected
- The number of locations in each country
- The number of servers behind each city
- Refresh the list on demand
Notifications
5- All Connection Notifications
- Connecting Notifications
- Connected Notifications
- Disconnected Notifications
- Error Notifications
On the home screen
4- A session timer, counting from the moment you connect
- Download and upload rates, live
- The city you came out in, and its address
- Change Server, without going back to the list
Display
2- Show Data Usage
- Language: English, Español, Français, Deutsch, हिन्दी, العربية
Outside the app
3- A Quick Settings tile that toggles the tunnel
- A home-screen widget with the same one-tap toggle
- The running session is picked back up when you return
Privacy
3- Analytics & Crash Reports, which you can turn off
- Show Connection Logs
- Privacy options, to revisit your consent choices
About
3- Check for updates
- Rate this app
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Questions
Before you install.
The things people ask most often, answered plainly. Anything else, the policies at the bottom go into detail.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no email address and no password. Install it, open it, tap connect.
Which Android versions does it run on?
Android 7.0 and anything newer, on phones and tablets.
What happens if the connection drops?
Turn on Kill Switch and all internet traffic is blocked until the tunnel is back, so nothing leaves the phone in the gap. Auto-Reconnect, which is on by default, brings the session back on its own.
Can I keep some apps off the VPN?
Yes. Split Tunneling lists everything installed, and the apps you pick carry on using your normal connection while everything else goes through the tunnel.
Can I connect without opening the app?
Yes. There is a Quick Settings tile and a home-screen widget, and both toggle the tunnel in one tap. Connecting for the first time still needs the app, because Android asks you to grant the VPN permission itself.
Free, and it stays free.
Nothing to unlock, nothing to cancel. Install it, tap once, and the app does the rest of the work.