Vortex VPN vs SecureFox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Vortex VPN
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Private, everywhere you go. VortexVPN builds an encrypted tunnel from your iPhone in one tap. Your network stops seeing where you go, and the sites you reach see our address instead of yours. Your encryption keys are generated on your iPhone and are never sent to us. The tunnel is built from a key we never receive, so there is nothing on our side to hand over. ONE PLAN. EVERY FEATURE. No Basic, no Plus, no add-on that unlocks the thing you actually wanted. Everything below is in the one price, on every device you own. ⢠Unlimited devices. Phone, laptop, tablet, the one in the drawer. There is no device count and no seat maths. ⢠No bandwidth caps and no throttling. ⢠Kill switch. Blocks all traffic if the tunnel drops, until it reconnects. ⢠Auto-connect. Rebuilds the tunnel whenever your iPhone finds a network, so protection is not something you have to remember. ⢠Local network access stays available while you are connected. ⢠Real latency in milliseconds beside every location, so you pick the fastest one instead of guessing. ⢠Servers on six continents. ⢠Bring your own servers. If you already run one, add it and route through it. ⢠Built natively for iPhone. Light, quick, and quiet about it. WHERE IT EARNS ITS KEEP Cafe, hotel and airport Wi-Fi. On a network you do not control, everything you send leaves as one encrypted stream. Whoever else is sitting on that network gets traffic they cannot read. Travelling. Pick the country you left and the internet behaves as though you never did. Everyday browsing. The record of everywhere you went stops being written by the network you are on. Working away from the office. Reach what you need over a connection you did not have to trust. NO TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED Open the app and tap once. There is no configuration, no profile to install by hand, and no manual to read. If you want the detail, it is there: choose a country, watch the latency, switch the kill switch on. If you do not, the defaults are already the safe ones. WHAT WE SELL Subscriptions. Not you. There is no ad network in this app, and we do not sell your account or your activity to anyone. VortexVPN is a paid subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://vortexvpn.me/privacy Terms of Service: https://vortexvpn.me/terms Standard End User Licence Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SecureFox
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SecureFox is the first consumer VPN to ship NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM-768, FIPS 203) alongside an advanced anti-censorship transport. We build our own Go networking core in-house ā we do not repackage a generic, off-the-shelf VPN stack. WHAT MAKES SECUREFOX DIFFERENT ⢠Post-quantum key exchange. Hybrid X25519 + ML-KEM-768 (FIPS 203, NIST-standardized) keeps your sessions safe even against a future quantum attacker. Toggle in Settings ā Tunnel. ⢠Stealth anti-censorship transport. A TLS-1.3-mimicking obfuscation layer that makes the tunnel look like ordinary HTTPS, so it keeps working on restrictive networks where standard VPN protocols are blocked. ⢠Custom networking framework. We compile our own gomobile binding around our Go core + lwIP TCP/IP stack ā not a third-party SDK, not a template. ⢠WireGuard option. A second protocol option for the rawest speed when stealth isn't needed. Switch in Settings ā Tunnel ā Protocol. A SERVER NETWORK THAT MATTERS ⢠Locations across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, with live device-to-server ping next to each city. ⢠Recommended-server scoring weights ping AND current load ā a fast-but-saturated node never beats a slightly slower one with capacity to spare. ⢠Auto-reconnect after sleep, network change, or OS pause. PRIVACY-FIRST DESIGN ⢠No-logs policy. We do not record browsing history, DNS queries, or IP addresses. ⢠Genuine kill switch ā if the tunnel drops, iOS blocks all traffic until it returns. Your real IP never leaks. ⢠Passwordless sign-in by email link. Sign in with Apple supported. We never ask for your phone number. ⢠All app data lives in Secure Enclave-backed keychain. ⢠Payments handled exclusively by Apple ā we never see your card. SUBSCRIPTIONS ⢠FREE ā unlimited use of our entry-tier locations, no time limit, no ads. ⢠PRO ā every server location, more concurrent devices, priority routing. ⢠PREMIUM ā everything in PRO plus streaming-optimized exit nodes and dedicated capacity. Auto-renewing subscriptions are billed through your Apple ID. Cancel anytime in Settings ā Apple ID ā Subscriptions; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period. Terms: https://securefox.xyz/terms Privacy: https://securefox.xyz/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: SecureFox at 4 against Vortex VPN's 1. SecureFox also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Vortex VPN sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and SecureFox sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Vortex VPN | SecureFox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.6 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YU. TECHNOLOGIES LTD | Kuipers Libertas B.V. |
In-app purchases
Vortex VPN
- Monthy Subscription$8.991 Month
- Yearly subscription$79.991 Year
SecureFox
- Basic Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Basic Monthly$5.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$11.991 Month
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- Premium Yearly$89.991 Year









