Comparison

Red Shield VPN vs Ghostlane

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Red Shield VPN

Secure your online activity and access your favorite content with this VPN service. Protect your data from third parties and hide your IP address across multiple devices. The service is funded by subscriptions, ensuring user privacy.

Highlights
  • Access favorite resources
  • Protect data and online activity
  • Hide IP address
  • Use on up to 10 devices
  • Subscription-based privacy
Features
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Simple applications for all platforms will help you: • Access your favorite resources • Protect your data and online activity from third parties • Hide your IP address Our business model allows us to be honest with users by paying the costs of the service from subscriptions, rather than selling your traffic or access to your Internet channel. You can use one subscription on up to 10 devices simultaneously. EULA: https://redshieldvpn.com/tos

About

Ghostlane

This app routes your internet traffic through disguised video calls to bypass network restrictions. It supports multiple advanced protocols and allows you to import your own VPN server configurations for flexible connectivity.

Highlights
  • Traffic disguised as video calls
  • Supports VLESS, Reality, Hysteria2, XHTTP
  • Import custom server configurations
  • Real-time latency measurement
  • Device-wide VPN routing
  • No data collection or analytics
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Ghostlane carries your traffic inside a video call. Most tunnels are recognisable. On a network that inspects what passes through it and drops anything shaped like a VPN, they stop working — not because the encryption failed, but because the shape of the connection gave it away. olcRTC is a different answer. It opens a WebRTC media session to a public meeting service — the same kind of call the network already carries all day — and moves your traffic inside it. What stays on the wire is a video call. ROOMS, AND HOW FULL THEY ARE An olcRTC relay holds a fixed number of slots, and a full room cannot take you. So the app asks each room how full it is and shows that in the list, before you pick one. It is the sort of thing you only need when the thing you are connecting to has rooms. IT ALSO SPEAKS THE ORDINARY PROTOCOLS A call-shaped tunnel costs bandwidth, and it is not needed until it is. The same app connects over the standard transports too, and you move between them as the network around you changes: • VLESS with Reality • VLESS over TLS, including through a CDN • Hysteria2, with Salamander obfuscation • XHTTP One app, because the moment you need the fallback is the worst possible moment to be installing another one. BRINGING YOUR OWN SERVERS Add a server list by pasting its link, scanning its QR code, or importing a file. The app groups servers by where they came from, filters them by protocol, remembers which exit you last used, and refreshes the list on a schedule you choose. Connecting routes the whole device through the exit you picked, using Apple's own packet tunnel. The status screen shows how long the session has been up and how much has gone through it. MEASURING Latency is measured where it can honestly be measured: through the tunnel for the connection you are on, and by ICMP echo for a server you are not connected to. Where neither is possible the app says so instead of showing a number it guessed. PRIVACY Nothing is collected. No account, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no crash reporting service. Your server lists and the app's own log stay on the device and are never sent anywhere. The app talks to exactly two kinds of address: the server-list URL you added, and the VPN servers in it. The one exception is a partner link that has to be resolved into a server-list URL, and that request carries the link and nothing about you. REQUIREMENTS A server configuration from a VPN provider: a server-list URL, a QR code, or a pasted link. The app does not sell one and does not include one. Any provider that speaks the protocols above will work. OPEN SOURCE https://github.com/ghostlane-project/ghostlane

Screenshots

Red Shield VPN4 screens
Ghostlane4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ghostlane at none against Red Shield VPN's 3. Ghostlane also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days). Red Shield VPN's advantage is ratings volume (2.9K vs 7) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Red Shield VPN sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Ghostlane asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Red Shield VPN against 4.7 for Ghostlane. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Red Shield VPN has 2.9K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 75% and 75% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Red Shield VPN ships an update every 11 days, Ghostlane every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Red Shield VPN versus Ghostlane: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRed Shield VPNGhostlane
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.9K ratings) — better4.7 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews74.7% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.9K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB139 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrivate Network Labs LLCGlobvent INC

Customer experience

Red Shield VPN

All ratings2,861 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral1.4%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews158 reviews
Positive74.7%
Neutral4.4%
Negative20.9%

Ghostlane

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Red Shield VPN

Subscriptions3
  • VPN subscription 1 month$11.991 Month
  • VPN subscription 6 months$53.996 Months
  • VPN subscription 12 months$71.901 Year
None

Ghostlane

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Red Shield VPN free?
Red Shield VPN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ghostlane free?
Ghostlane is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Red Shield VPN or Ghostlane?
Red Shield VPN is rated higher. Red Shield VPN averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.9K ratings, while Ghostlane averages 4.7 from 7 ratings.
Do Red Shield VPN or Ghostlane have ads?
Neither Red Shield VPN nor Ghostlane shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Red Shield VPN or Ghostlane?
Red Shield VPN ships an update every 11 days, and Ghostlane every 3 days. Most recently, Red Shield VPN was updated on October 23, 2026 and Ghostlane on October 15, 2026.

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