Windscribe

Windscribe gives more routing choices than a single connect button suggests. Its documentation on the homepage describes split tunneling for selected apps or websites, several protocols and ports, and port forwarding for services that need incoming connections. These are useful features to compare for a home server or an app that must stay outside the tunnel.

The free offer shown on the page grants 10 GB each month after email confirmation. Windscribe also distinguishes desktop/mobile apps from browser extensions, so choose the client that covers the traffic you intend to route.

Windscribe's policy keeps an account's thirty-day byte total and last-activity timestamp. During an OpenVPN or IKEv2 connection, the server holds username, connection time and transferred volume in memory until disconnection; a central counter tracks parallel connections. It excludes historical VPN sessions, source IPs and visited sites. Email is optional for signup but enables password recovery, and payment transaction IDs remain for thirty days. Consider that recovery choice before using an account without an email address.