OVPN

Best for: people who want genuinely anonymous signup (no email, cash or Bitcoin accepted) and a no-logs claim that’s actually been tested in court — and who are comfortable looking past a corporate ownership structure that’s grown considerably more complicated since that court case was won.

Pros

• Account creation requires no email address at all — just a username and password — and OVPN accepts cash and Bitcoin alongside cards and PayPal, a genuinely anonymous signup-to-payment path shared by only a couple of other providers reviewed on this site
• No-logs claim was tested adversarially in a real Swedish court case (2020): rights holders failed to prove OVPN retained any data, and the court ordered them to pay OVPN’s legal costs
• A fresh 2026 Cure53 audit — conducted after new ownership took over — found no critical issues and was published with unusually granular detail: a summary, the raw vulnerability triage, and a public remediation timeline
• States that all server hardware (96 servers, 32 regions) is owned directly by the company rather than leased from third parties, similar in spirit to infrastructure claims made by a couple of other reviewed providers
• Port forwarding and multi-hop are both available (multi-hop specifically via the Linux client) — features increasingly rare across the VPNs reviewed here
• Monthly transparency reports have continued without interruption through the change in ownership
• Standing prices ($4.99/mo annual, $4.22/mo on the 3-year term) rather than a steep discounted-intro-then-renewal-jump structure

Cons

• Ownership has become genuinely complicated. OVPN’s own press materials now list the operating entity as “OVPN Inc., incorporated in US” — a Five Eyes jurisdiction — a real shift from the clean Swedish-only story the 2020 court case is built on. The original Swedish entity, OVPN Integritet AB, was acquired in 2023 by Pango (now part of Point Wild after further restructuring), the same corporate family behind Hotspot Shield, Betternet, and several other consumer VPN brands
• Point Wild’s lineage traces back to AnchorFree/Hotspot Shield, which faced a 2017 complaint to the FTC alleging undisclosed ad-tracking practices (no confirmed formal enforcement action found) — disclosed here as history on the parent company, not a claim about OVPN’s current practices
• Point Wild also owns VPN review/comparison sites (Comparitech, ProPrivacy) — a direct conflict of interest worth knowing if you encounter OVPN coverage on either site; this review avoided citing them for exactly that reason
• Split tunneling works only on the Windows desktop client — not macOS, Linux, iOS, or Android
• No 24/7 live chat; support is tied to Swedish business hours, so non-European time zones may wait until the next day
• No dedicated obfuscation or stealth protocol for heavily censored networks
• Only one independent speed-test source was found for this review — the figures here are less cross-verified than for most other providers reviewed on this site
• Streaming support is real but Nordic-market-focused; BBC iPlayer and Amazon Prime Video failed in independent testing

No-Logs Audit, Court History & Ownership

OVPN’s no-logs reputation rests on two distinct pillars from two different eras of the company. First, under its original Swedish ownership, OVPN’s claim was tested in an actual courtroom: in September 2020, Sweden’s Patent and Market Court ruled against a rights-holder group (Rights Alliance) that had sought to force OVPN to identify a user by IP address — the court found OVPN had nothing to hand over, and ordered Rights Alliance to cover OVPN’s legal fees (108,000 SEK, roughly $12,300). All 56 case documents were made public. Second, more recently, OVPN completed a fresh Cure53 security audit in 2026 — after new ownership took over — finding no critical issues and publishing an unusually detailed technical report, including the raw vulnerability triage and a remediation timeline, alongside monthly transparency reports that have continued without interruption.

The complication is what sits between those two facts. OVPN Integritet AB, the original Swedish entity behind the 2020 court win, was acquired in 2023 by Pango (via Intersections, LLC), which has since been restructured twice — splitting from Aura in 2024, then merging with Total Security (TotalAV’s parent) to form the current parent, Point Wild. OVPN’s own press page now states its legal operating entity is “OVPN Inc., incorporated in US” — a genuine jurisdictional shift from the Sweden-only story, though servers themselves are still described as company-owned rather than leased, and the audit/transparency practices have visibly continued under the new structure. Worth knowing separately: Point Wild’s broader portfolio includes VPN comparison sites (Comparitech, ProPrivacy), a direct conflict of interest for treating that coverage as independent — this review sourced the court case from OVPN’s own public blog post instead. Point Wild’s corporate lineage also traces back to AnchorFree/Hotspot Shield, which faced a 2017 complaint asking the FTC to investigate undisclosed ad-tracking practices; no confirmed formal FTC enforcement action was found, and this is presented as history on the parent company rather than a claim about OVPN’s current behavior.

Pricing

OVPN costs $12/month with no discount, $4.99/month billed annually, or $4.22/month billed once every three years — genuinely competitive rates, presented on OVPN’s own pricing page as standing prices rather than a steep discounted-intro-then-renewal-jump structure common elsewhere.

Security & Protocols

OVPN supports WireGuard and OpenVPN, with a kill switch and protection against WebRTC, DNS, and IPv6 leaks as standard. Split tunneling exists but only on the Windows desktop client (x64 Windows 10/11) — a real gap on every other platform. Port forwarding is available, and multi-hop routing is offered specifically through OVPN’s custom Linux GUI client. There’s no dedicated obfuscation or stealth protocol for defeating deep packet inspection on censored networks.

Servers, Speed & Streaming

OVPN operates 96 servers across 32 cities, all stated to be company-owned hardware rather than leased capacity. Independent 2026 speed testing (from a single source found for this review) measured roughly 190 Mbps on nearby US/Canada servers against a 500 Mbps baseline, dropping to 72-77 Mbps on UK/Germany routes — moderate performance, not among the fastest reviewed here. Streaming support leans Nordic: OVPN’s own site claims Netflix US/Germany/Sweden plus several Swedish and Nordic platforms, though independent testing found BBC iPlayer and Amazon Prime Video didn’t work. P2P/torrenting is allowed.

Jurisdiction & Ownership

OVPN was founded around 2014 in Sweden by David Wibergh, later incorporated as OVPN Integritet AB (Stockholm, registered January 2015). That entity was acquired in 2023 by Pango, now part of Point Wild following further corporate restructuring — see the dedicated section above for the full ownership chain and what it means for jurisdiction. Sweden itself has no mandatory data-retention law that applied to OVPN’s court case, but the currently stated operating entity, “OVPN Inc.,” is US-incorporated — a Five Eyes jurisdiction.

Our Rating

Rating: 7.4/10