VB MATE vs Hiddify Proxy & VPN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VB MATE
This utility app connects to a visual blackhead meter to display real-time images. It serves as an auxiliary tool for the device, allowing users to view captured visuals directly.
- Real-time image display
- Connects to visual blackhead meter
- Auxiliary tool software
- View captured visuals
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This is an auxiliary tool software for the visual blackhead meter. When the user connects the visual blackhead meter, you can see the picture taken by the blackhead meter in real time through this app.
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
This open-source application acts as a secure and efficient tunneling client, allowing you to route all your internet traffic to a remote server of your choice. It supports various server configurations and offers features like automatic server selection and user-friendly profile imports.
- User-friendly interface
- Optimized and fast performance
- Automatic lowest ping and load balancing
- User usage information display
- One-click sublink import
- Supports multiple server protocols
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Hiddify is an open source software available in https://github.com/hiddify/Hiddify-app with more than 26K stars in Github. The key goal of Hiddify is to provide a secure, user-friendly and efficient tunnelling client. It enables you to route all traffic to a remote server of your choose, utilising VPN-Service permission. Note: We do not provide any server; users are required to ensure their online activities stay private by using use their own self-hosted server or trusted servers. We support servers with: - Hiddify Profile - Normal V2ray/Xray Connection Profile Link - Clash Connection Profile Link - Sing-Box Connection Profile Link What is our unique features? - User Friendly - Optimized and Fast - Automatically select LowestPing , LoadBalance - Show user usage information - Easily import sublink by one click using deeplinking - Free and No ADS - Easily switch user sublinks - more and more Support: - XHTTP, Mieru, Naive, Wireguard - All Protocols supported by Sing-Box - VLESS + xtls reality, vision - VMESS - Trojan - ShoadowSocks - Reality - V2ray - Hystria2 - TUIC - SSH - ShadowTLS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hiddify Proxy & VPN at 4.5 against VB MATE's 3.0. Hiddify Proxy & VPN also leads on ratings volume (810 vs 3) and review sentiment (70% vs 50%). VB MATE's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 16 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hiddify Proxy & VPN holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hiddify Proxy & VPN has 810 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of VB MATE's written reviews are positive against 70% of Hiddify Proxy & VPN's.
VB MATE ships an update every 3 weeks, Hiddify Proxy & VPN every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VB MATE | Hiddify Proxy & VPN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 4.5 (810 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 70.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 810 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 166 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 孙辉 吴 | Holistic Resilience |
Customer experience
VB MATE
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
Bugs and requests
VB MATE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on certain iOS versions
- Connectivity issues on some devices
Requested features
2 requests- Control center integration
- Background running mode
In-app purchases
VB MATE
No in-app purchases
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
No in-app purchases
