No marketing fluff, no dodging. Here's everything people ask about NebulaVPN — and the honest answers.
Yes — genuinely free, with no trial period and no hidden "premium" wall blocking the good servers. We keep the lights on with lightweight, optional ads, so we never have to charge you or sell your data to stay alive. If you'd like to support us directly, there's an optional in-app way to do that too.
No. This is the core of our promise: NebulaVPN does not operate the VPN exit servers. We connect you to a validated public server pool and provide the smarts to find the best one. We have no infrastructure logging what websites you visit, what you download, or who you talk to. The minimal technical data involved in keeping the app running is laid out plainly in our privacy policy.
Yes. Your connection uses real OpenVPN tunnels with AES-256-CBC encryption and SHA-512 authentication — the same standard trusted by banks and enterprises. On top of that, before any server is trusted, we verify its real exit country, so you're never quietly routed through a mislabeled or hostile node. As with any free VPN, we recommend it for privacy, streaming, and everyday protection — not for high-risk situations where a paid, audited provider is the responsible choice.
Free VPN servers are ephemeral — volunteers spin them up and shut them down constantly. If you ship a static list, half of it is dead within a day. So we run an automated pipeline every hour that probes every candidate for reachability and latency, opens a real tunnel to confirm it actually works and exits where it claims, then scores and ranks the survivors best-first. The list in your app is alive, not a graveyard.
No account, no email, no credit card, no verification maze. Install the app, tap connect, done. We like it that way.
NebulaVPN runs on Android 7.0 (API 24) and newer. It's an ARM-optimized build, so it runs natively on virtually all modern phones.
A server might claim it's in Japan while actually exiting somewhere else entirely. We don't take its word for it — our pipeline and the app both check the server's real-world exit location before a connection is trusted. If the label doesn't match reality, the server is rejected.
Automatic failover kicks in. NebulaVPN races to the next-best validated server and reconnects you, usually before you even notice. That's a big reason the app feels reliable even though individual free servers can be flaky.
Any VPN adds a little latency because your traffic takes a detour through the server. But because we rank by latency and throughput every hour and failover to faster options, NebulaVPN keeps that overhead as low as a free VPN reasonably can. Picking a server geographically close to you helps the most.
NebulaVPN works for general browsing, privacy, and accessing content in other regions. Streaming performance depends on the server you land on — try a few, since the ranked list surfaces the fastest ones first. Please always respect the laws of your country and the terms of the services you use.
Ads are how a genuinely free app stays free without harvesting your data. We keep them lightweight and out of the way — for example, a banner in the locations list, and an occasional ad while you connect, never anything intrusive when you're actively protected. We never sell your personal information to advertisers.
We'd love to hear from you. Email [email protected] or use our contact form — a real human reads every message, and we usually reply within a day or two.