Comparison

HeyFree vs CumulusVPN

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

Head to head
About

HeyFree

Features
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Build workplace English listening practice into your daily routine with HeyFree. LISTEN, THEN UNDERSTAND Listen first, then explore sentence-by-sentence English and Chinese text. Adjust playback speed, inspect sentences, and listen again at your own pace. KEEP USEFUL EXPRESSIONS Save practical phrases, collocations, and sentence patterns to your expression library and review them later. PRACTICE AT YOUR LEVEL Choose from five levels, A1 to C1. After each listening item, mark it too hard, just right, or too easy to help adjust recommendations. You can also change your level in Settings. LISTEN ON THE GO After you start playback, listening continues when you lock your screen or switch apps. Use system playback controls to pause, resume, and seek. WORKPLACE SCENARIOS Practice everyday collaboration, meetings, customer communication, and international trade with American and British English content. Listening content is AI-assisted and reviewed. You can report content issues within the app. FREE AND MEMBERSHIP Free users can listen to 5 items per day and save up to 30 expressions. Review is unlimited. HeyFree membership includes unlimited listening and expression saves, with monthly and annual auto-renewable subscriptions. In mainland China, the standard monthly price is CNY 29. Eligible new subscribers pay CNY 9.90 for the first month, then CNY 29 per month. The annual price is CNY 168; eligible new subscribers receive a 7-day free trial, followed by annual renewal. Apple determines introductory-offer eligibility within the subscription group. Subscribers who are not eligible pay the standard price. Prices and available offers in other regions are shown in the Apple purchase confirmation sheet. You can cancel auto-renewal in your Apple Account subscription settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. AI speaking practice is not available in this version. Privacy Policy: https://www.heyfree.cn/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.heyfree.cn/terms

About

CumulusVPN

This app provides a private and secure VPN connection without requiring any personal account information. It uses a decentralized network and modern encryption to protect your online activity from snooping and geo-restrictions.

Highlights
  • No account required
  • Zero logging policy
  • One-tap connection
  • WireGuard encryption
  • Decentralized network
  • Optional multi-hop
Features
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CumulusVPN is a decentralized VPN that respects your privacy by design — not by promise. NO ACCOUNT, EVER There is no sign-up, no email, no password, no phone number. Open the app and it generates a private key on your device. That key is your only identity, and it never leaves your phone. NO LOGS, AND WE MEAN IT We do not record the sites you visit, your DNS queries, your traffic, or your connection history. Our servers keep the minimum routing state in memory only — it is erased when the server restarts. There is no activity database to leak, sell, or hand over, because it does not exist. ONE TAP TO CONNECT Pick a country, tap connect. Modern WireGuard® encryption protects your traffic on public Wi-Fi, hotels, airports, and untrusted networks. Fast handshakes, automatic reconnection, and gateway failover keep you online. FREE TIER FOREVER Every install includes a genuinely free tier — no trial, no card, no account. RUN ON A DECENTRALIZED NETWORK CumulusVPN servers run as apps on the Flux decentralized cloud, hosted in commercial datacenters by independent operators — not on a single company's servers. It is a different, more resilient shape for a VPN. OPTIONAL MULTI-HOP FOR MAXIMUM PRIVACY Turn on multi-hop and your traffic is routed through two servers, so that no single server ever sees both who you are and where you are going. It is slower — we tell you exactly how much — and it is your choice, off by default. HONEST ABOUT WHAT A VPN CAN AND CANNOT DO CumulusVPN protects you from local-network snooping, ISP logging, and geo-restrictions. It is not anonymity software like Tor, and we say so plainly. No overselling. Built by the Flux team. Powered by Flux Cloud. Privacy that is structural, not a slogan. WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HeyFree at weekly against CumulusVPN's fortnightly. CumulusVPN's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HeyFree ships an update weekly, CumulusVPN fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
HeyFree versus CumulusVPN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeyFreeCumulusVPN
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer深圳市宝砾科技有限公司Influx Technologies Limited

In-app purchases

None

HeyFree

No in-app purchases

None

CumulusVPN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HeyFree free?
HeyFree is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CumulusVPN free?
CumulusVPN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HeyFree or CumulusVPN have ads?
Neither HeyFree nor CumulusVPN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HeyFree or CumulusVPN?
HeyFree ships an update weekly, and CumulusVPN fortnightly. Most recently, HeyFree was updated on October 30, 2026 and CumulusVPN on October 31, 2026.

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