# Purple Onion - Anonymous VPN — user reviews > 66 indexed App Store user reviews of Purple Onion by J C L TRAVELS INC, rated 4.50/5 from 1,059 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/purple-onion-anonymous-vpn/id1445447109/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/purple-onion-anonymous-vpn/id1445447109.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 815 · 4★ 98 · 3★ 40 · 2★ 23 · 1★ 83 ## What do users think of Purple Onion? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and efficient - 🔒 Good security features - 👍 Great app when it works **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - ⚠️ Unreliable and unstable - 💤 No longer works with latest iOS versions - 🤖 Poor customer support **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch - VPN issues and disconnects - Download function not working - Compatibility issues with iOS 16+ **Most requested features** - Update to support latest iOS versions - Improve stability and reliability - Add new identity option like Red Browser ## Newest reviews (18 of 66) ### 1/5 — Ne fonctionne pas *2024-01-31* Quitte instantanément dès qu’on le lance. ### 1/5 — App does not open. *2024-01-24* Just purchased the App from the App Store, and while the screen icon appears, it will not open when pressed. Don't know what the problem is. Very disappointing. My IPad is an IPad Pro 12.9', 5th gen.. ### 1/5 — does not work fraud *2023-08-03* the application is paid completely, but does not work, where are the developers looking? apple where this scam is looking, I paid money but did not receive my product ### 1/5 — Does not work on my iPad - no reply from support *2023-07-17* The app appears to try and open and crashes immediately. This support crew has not replied to my request for assistance. Extremely poor product. ### 1/5 — Don’t purchase *2023-02-17, version 1.5* Just purchased the app and it won’t open! ### 1/5 — Don’t work *2023-02-08, version 1.5* I start it and just disappears ### 1/5 — Now Dead App *2023-02-07* This was the best TOR browser I had ever came across but sadly it no longer works with the latest IOS. I had been using it for years but now it just crashes immediately upon opening. Unfortunately I cannot recommend anyone purchase this app at this time due to this and there does not seem to be any intention to update the browser. I really hope this comes back though, I would even be willing to pitch a donation or something to the dev to get it back. Here’s hoping something changes. ### 1/5 — Crash, crash and crash again! *2023-02-05* As others have pointed out, app is useless and has been for sometime; it immediately crashes when launching. Do Not Download- complete waist of time. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work in iOS 16 *2023-01-03, version 1.5* Fix it plz ### 2/5 — Need patch *2022-12-17* Crash on every load nées match for iPhone 13 ### 1/5 — White screen, nothing happens. App is broken *2022-12-11, version 1.5* The app is dead :-( ### 1/5 — Wth *2022-12-07, version 1.5* Only crashes for me never started up ### 1/5 — Does not open *2022-12-06* Just purchased and it will not open. I contacted app support. We will see how it goes. Will update ### 1/5 — CRASHING *2022-11-24, version 1.5* Not working on iOS 16.1.1 app crashes as soon as it opens ### 1/5 — The app is crashing *2022-11-03, version 1.5* Is there any update for this app, otherwise it’s totally useless to be on App Store!! It is NOT working on iOS 16. ### 3/5 — Not working with ios 16 *2022-10-31, version 1.5* It doesnt working when i upgrated ios 16. ### 1/5 — Used to be the best for browser I knew of *2022-10-28* Used to be the best for browser I knew of but ever since the recent Apple update app will not open ### 1/5 — The Browser formerly known as Great. *2022-10-24* Purple Onion was my browser of choice until the advent of IOS 16 and iPadOS 16, both of which have broken it completely. Now it won’t even launch. Please fix it. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t open *2026-06-12* Paid for app download unfortunately doesn’t open just crashes can I have a refund please ### 1/5 — DONT WAST MONEY *2026-02-12, version 1.5* Doesn’t work crashes soon as you click on it ### 1/5 — Attention ! *2025-11-02* pure rip-off no function !!! ### 1/5 — Doesnt even startup *2025-10-15, version 1.5* I bought this app and it doesnt even open on iOS 18. This is pure robbery and I demand a refund, because it says in the discription it is compattible to my iphone which is clearly not the case. Do NOT purchase this app. ### 1/5 — Closes Out *2025-09-29* It may be just me but this issue is the first but after purchasing and downloading I select the app to open and it goes to a white screen with the onion logo and then app closes with multiple attempts this issue doesn’t go away and in unabkr go usd the paid app. ### 1/5 — Scam *2025-03-11, version 1.5* Does not work, it crashes. ### 1/5 — Crash!! *2024-12-07, version 1.5* Crashes on launch. Restarted iPhone, same result. IPhone 11, ios 18.1.1 ### 1/5 — Вылетает *2024-10-01, version 1.5* Ios 18 iphone 11 при запуске сразу вылетает ### 1/5 — crashes on launch *2024-08-05, version 1.5* completely unusable ### 1/5 — No longer works *2024-06-14, version 1.5* Was great - but no longer works ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Update please *2025-09-07* Please update it it used to be the best ### 5/5 — Great App *2020-07-02* Works perfect just let the app apply VPN settings and it works perfectly. Heaps of great features. For a one off fee this is the best TOR Browser for IOS. ### 5/5 — Update please.. *2020-06-21* Please update new security version ### 5/5 — Does the job as expected *2019-07-24* Purple onion is one application that is spectacular in its design and execution of its job. To pass by those the very smooth yet simplistic execution would be doing oneself a injustice of both time and space which are very valuable commodities indeed. ### 5/5 — Hi *2019-04-10* Many thanks ,,, this is very very important and very good that working so fast and usefully for us in this aria. Best regards M. Nasseri ### 5/5 — Fereydoun777 *2019-04-03, version 1.2* 👌 ### 5/5 — Tor v3 *2019-03-13* Can you add the ability to access tor v3 sites? ### 5/5 — Tor Onion *2019-02-02* It's fast and it's free. More importantly, it works extremely well, even if you have another VPN running. I know, why should you run two VPNs, well I did by accident and still had no real drop in download speed. An excellent piece of kit! ### 5/5 — Too good to be true- except it is true *2019-01-27* I was searching the App Store for a Tor browser app with VPN, yet only finding reviews on each app all containing similar stories- apps that had you rate them before you can use them, apps that were once good but introduced adds which gave away your VPN (and were extremely frequent and annoying to boot), apps that are too slow to be justified, and apps that did not provide the protection that they initially promised. So when I saw that this free app was meant to be an improved version of the older version of Red Onion, I was cautiously hopeful. Could a free app really be so good? The answer, as I soon found out, was yes. This app passed the tests on security-checking websites, uses Touch ID, can toggle Flash for security vs. function, and much more. It even blurs the display when not open, preventing anyone from taking an internal screenshot of the browser. Would give this a much higher rating if I could. ### 3/5 — Works on iOS 14.3 *2025-04-06* Does not work on 16 and above. The provided links don’t work, but I was able to get into some other tor websites. The VPN works I just need to go through this and see what is still accessible. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-07.*