NetShade Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience49.5% of reviews
Neutral5.9% of reviews
Negative experience44.6% of reviews

~ Based on 101 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about NetShade

Is NetShade Safe?

NetShade appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for NetShade is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 177 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

88.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 177 App Store ratings for NetShade.

Is NetShade Legit?

NetShade appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NetShade is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Invalid certificates

VPN settings just starting warning that the certificate is invalid. Also, the website is now inaccessible. Have they been hacked??

Useless

Absolutely useless. Used to be good, but now neglected by the owners. Never updated or improved so just slowly dying with no care for any subscribers. Avoid. Buy a different one

Not easy to use

Good luck trying to change the server listing on iOS. I've edited the server list on my MacBook Pro but I'll be damned if I can work out how to do it for my iPhone. I'd figure it out from the User Manual but for the fact there isn't one and the online Help offers no clues. It's frustrating as Netshade is excellent when the server you want is up and running. NB Apparently the server list can be accessed by the Globe View. I’ve spend 90 minutes on my iPad trying to do this but no dice.
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Frustrated

Had this VPN over 5 years and all of a sudden says expired. I’ve been emailing them a week to resolve and going around in circles-very frustrating and still no VPN.

Rarely works

The service is so bad now. There are only 3 and even these rarely work. Total waste of money

Problem with proxy and socks

The proxy and socks is not working and you people need to work on that

Disappointed

Won’t connect to UK

Update the http pro and socks needed

The http pro and socks is not connecting to the state please we want you to work on it as soon as possible

All fixed

iPadOS 26 broke this app’s VPN functionality. Developer fixed it within a day of letting him know.

Was good, now rubbish.

I’ve been using this software for years, and it’s worked well. I’ve been having quite a few problems recently and the tech support is none existent. This App hasn’t been updated for a few years now so I think they must have called it a day. Time to switch to a different provider. Wouldn’t recommend.
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Not any longer what it used to be

Number of countries/sites is limited.
VPN is regularly out of service.
Bugs with list of server (I.e you select UK and you get connected in Germany)

Stopped in the UK?

It worked for many years but for Easter it stopped for English channels. Let’s it’s temporary.

Uk server disappears again…

Over the past 10 days, terrible reliability for the UK server. What the heck is going on.

I have used this service for several years, but situation is atrocious for UK lately. What is going on?? You had better notify clients, or there will be a mass exodus. Netshade lately is shamefully unreliable to UK.

For god sake take some notice….
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Not easy to use

Good luck trying to change the server listing on iOS. I've edited the server list on my MacBook Pro but I'll be damned if I can work out how to do it for my iPhone. I'd figure it out from the User Manual but for the fact there isn't one and the online Help offers no clues. It's frustrating as Netshade is excellent when the server you want is up and running.
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Waste of money

VPN for UK often not available

Don’t waste your money

Doesn’t work, none of the vpn connection work well enough to actually use the internet. Useless.

Works well but sometimes servers are unavailable

I got this app mainly to get access to servers in the UK, Germany, France and Canada. UK servers become unavailable at least once a week and it is inconvenient when they are unavailable. Other than that the app works well. If the UK servers were always available I would consider giving it a 5 star review.
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Limited servers available

There’s only 5 dedicated servers available just now, in 4 geos (US, Canada, France and Germany). What happened to all the others? There was more yesterday.

UK server missing

I have tried to connect to the UK server but it is no longer available so no use to me half way through my subscription. I am very disappointed

Still can’t connect on mobile version for 2 months.

Very disappointed. Worked for years until this summer.