*30-day money-back guarantee
Unsure if Surfshark is the right VPN for you? Try it risk-free and see for yourself. Surfshark offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on its plans, and you can even get a 7-day free trial through the Android app:
Sign up for your new shiny Surfshark account! It will cover all your devices, not just Android.
Download the Surfshark VPN Android app on Google Play or get the APK here.
Sign in, connect to a server, and enjoy surfing the web while your privacy and sensitive data are protected by a VPN!
Surfshark is supported by: API versions 21 or newer, Android 5.0 and newer systems, Android phones, tablets, and smart TVs.
The app is available on Google Play while the APK can be downloaded on our website.
Kill Switch disconnects you from the internet if your VPN connection drops. This way, no sensitive data or personal information is leaked.
Ads. Trackers. Malware. Phishing attempts. All these become things of the past with our CleanWeb feature that will keep your Android squeaky clean.
Can’t use your banking app with a VPN? Exclude trusted apps and websites from the VPN, but stay protected everywhere else with Bypasser.
Connect multiple devices to one account. No need to log out, either — we allow unlimited simultaneous connections.
We use industry-leading AES-256 VPN encryption to protect your sensitive information and keep you safe online.
Enjoy true privacy online with our no-activity-logs policy. What you do online is completely up to you. We keep your privacy safe — we don't monitor your activity nor keep any logs.
A free Android VPN won’t offer the same experience as a premium VPN. Since a free VPN needs to make money somehow, it will likely bombard you with ads. In more extreme cases, free VPNs have been known to collect and sell user data to third parties. Here’s why premium trumps free as the choice of a VPN for Android:
Premium VPNs don’t need to sell user data to finance themselves, so they’re much more likely to have a no-activity-logs policy and abide by it.
Free VPN developers don’t have the money for research and development like premium VPN developers do.
A free VPN is likely to limit your speed or data — that’s their way of making you upgrade to a paid plan. A premium VPN already comes with unlimited bandwidth.
Maintaining a secure and modern VPN network requires a lot of money. A free VPN can’t ensure the same level of security that a subscription-funded premium VPN can.
Your internet connection speed with a VPN depends partly on the number of servers and locations that a VPN offers. Premium VPNs always have a better server infrastructure than free alternatives.
A premium VPN like Surfshark can afford to upgrade its servers to 10Gbps — something a free VPN would hardly be able to do.
Using a VPN is legal in most of the world. It is a privacy and security tool, and there’s nothing illegal about protecting yourself online.
As long as you stay away from free VPNs and do your research, a VPN is safe to use!
Yes — you can find it on the Google Play store. Please note that it’s not compatible with an Ethernet cable connection on Android TVs/boxes running Android 9.
Free VPNs for Android do exist, but we don’t recommend using any of them. Not only do they provide a sub-par VPN experience due to a slow and limited connection, but they are also known to have serious security risks.
Yes, Android devices come with a built-in VPN capability. However:
Even the Google help page isn’t that enthusiastic about the capability.
While it won’t give you more bandwidth than your service provider, Surfshark can increase your internet speed by blocking ads, therefore using less data. A VPN can also help with ISP (Internet Service Provider) throttling by hiding your internet traffic and not giving the ISP a reason to slow down your connection.
While you cannot be 100% anonymous on the internet, a reliable VPN does make you very, very hard to trace.
