Hiddify Proxy & VPN vs SANDS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
SANDS
Stream, play, and download movies in any format or quality. This app offers robust subtitle support with customizable settings and allows easy streaming of download links.
- Play movies in any format
- Stream movies
- Download movies
- Subtitle support
- Subtitle settings
- Stream download links
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A practical and simple application to play, stream and download movies in any format and quality. This application simply supports subtitles in the movie and has many settings for subtitles. You can easily stream the download link from anywhere with a few clicks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SANDS at every 5 months against Hiddify Proxy & VPN's every 16 months. Hiddify Proxy & VPN's advantage is ratings volume (844 vs 218). 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
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 Hiddify Proxy & VPN against 4.5 for SANDS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 844 and 218 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Hiddify Proxy & VPN's written reviews are positive against 71% of SANDS's.
Hiddify Proxy & VPN ships an update every 16 months, SANDS every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hiddify Proxy & VPN | SANDS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (844 ratings) | 4.5 (218 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.9% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 844 — better | 218 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Holistic Resilience | Hossein ESMAEILI HOLASO |
Customer experience
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
SANDS
User reviews
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
From 844 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Ultimate solution
- 🚀 Perfect for all devices
- 🔒 Great security app
- 🔒 Best app for bypassing censorship
- 👍 Awesome features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
- 🔋 Background connectivity problems
SANDS
From 218 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Best app ever
- 👍 Amazing app
- 👍 Great interface
- 👍 Complete library
- 👍 Perfect app
Room to improve
- 😞 Paid app, not free
- 😞 Expensive subscription
- 😞 App is a scam
- 😞 Buggy
- 😞 Download stops
Bugs and 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
SANDS
Reported bugs
6 issues- Download gets stopped
- Some movies cannot be found
- File not found error for some movies
- Blank screen when playing downloaded episodes
- Downloaded episodes not showing in download section
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- Inconsistent subtitles
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to see two subtitles together
- Add popular movies and series
- Update with more movies
- Better updates for iOS compatibility
In-app purchases
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
No in-app purchases
SANDS
No in-app purchases
