WEPN vs Shadowscale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WEPN
Share your home internet bandwidth to provide secure, uncensored access for others. Use your device as a personal VPN gateway to mask your traffic when on public networks. This app requires companion hardware.
- Share home internet bandwidth
- Provide free, secure internet access
- Route traffic through home gateway
- Mask internet traffic on public networks
- No need for third-party VPN providers
- Companion to WEPN Pod hardware
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Join us in making the Web free and safe! Use your underutilized home internet bandwidth to provide uncensored, free, and secure internet access to yourself, your family, and friends. Their traffic will be routed through WEPN gateway in your home. This app is the companion for the WEPN Pod hardware device, available in our shop. Install and run Outline client VPN app on your mobile phone or laptop when you are at a coffee shop, or while traveling or using open/unsecured networks to securely mask and route your internet traffic through your home. No need to pay a VPN provider and expose your traffic to potentially malicious third parties. You are your own VPN provider.
Shadowscale
This VPN client simplifies secure internet access by allowing users to import configurations via QR codes or manual URL entry. It provides a straightforward way to set up and manage your VPN connection for enhanced online privacy and security.
- VPN client
- QR code configuration import
- Manual URL configuration
- Secure internet access
- Enhanced online privacy
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A VPN client for WEB. Allows configuration to be imported by scanning QR codes or by manually entering URLs with the settings.
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Verdict
WEPN and Shadowscale are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for WEPN against 4.5 for Shadowscale. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 20 respectively.
WEPN ships an update every 2 months, Shadowscale every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WEPN | Shadowscale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 4.5 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WEPN | 12VPX |
Customer experience
WEPN
Shadowscale
In-app purchases
WEPN
No in-app purchases
Shadowscale
No in-app purchases
