Windscribe review

Supported Devices

Windscribe offers official clients for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and Linux. They also offer browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox. If you want to protect all the devices connected to your home internet, you can also set up Windscribe on your router.

Ease of Use

Setup is a breeze if you’re using the Windows and Mac clients or browser extensions.

However, if you want to set up your routers, steps are more complicated. Reviewers found the client straightforward and user-friendly. You can easily check server latency and change servers with a couple clicks of your mouse.

Simultaneous Connections

Windscribe doesn’t mess around with limited connections. Even with the free plan, you have unlimited connections.

Included Features

For as simple as Windscribe appears, it offers a lot of features.

Popular ones include:

• Killswitch
• P2P servers
• R.O.B.E.R.T or Remote Omnidirectional Badware Eliminating Robotic Tool) -- blocks malware, phishing, botnets, adware, and trackers
• Double Hop -- connect through two VPN servers
• Time zone spoofing -- change your IP time zone
• Import custom OpenVPN configuration files
• IKEv2, OpenVPN, TCP/UDP, Stealth or WSTunnel VPN protocols

Privacy and Logging

Windscribe is located in Canada, which is part of the Five Eyes online surveillance program.

While not an ideal location for privacy, Windscribe vehemently states that they do not collect any identifying logs. What little information they collect -- such as your username and which VPN you connect to -- are only stored on the VPN server’s RAM. This means the information is cleared once you close your session.

Windscribe also releases a Transparency Report to further prove their stance on privacy and security. It states, “Exactly zero requests were complied with due to lack of relevant data.”

Reviewers also put the client through its paces and found no IP or DNS leaks.

Performance

This is the one area where Windscribe falls short. As a smaller VPN, they only have a few servers across a handful of countries. This was an issue for some reviewers who experienced frequent server outages.

To make matters worse, speeds failed to impress most reviewers as well. Even on the closest servers, VPN performance was average at best. People who want to download or stream should be perfectly fine. However, reviews note the service would not be ideal for competitive gamers.

Customer Support

Windscribe’s beefy support site is the first place you should go to if you run into issues. If you still can’t solve your issue, you can contact support directly via a chatbot. There’s no way to email support directly, though can raise a ticket on their site.

Windscribe doesn’t make any promises for support request time frames. Why? As they state on their site, “As we are a relatively small company, we’re unable to provide support 24/7…”

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Summary

Windscribe isn’t perfect, but it offers a respectable list of features and an outstanding free tier.

Toms Guide states, “Windscribe doesn’t tick every VPN box, but the service does have a lot of interesting features…”

PC World adds, “Windscribe is a good VPN service... What really sets Windscribe apart, however are the extras…”