Comparison

Crest Browser vs BBVPN

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

Head to head
About

Crest Browser

Organize your online life with distinct browsing contexts for work, personal use, and private browsing. Each context has its own tabs, history, and data, ensuring a clean separation of your digital activities.

Highlights
  • Isolated browsing contexts (Spaces)
  • Separate tabs, history, and cookies per Space
  • Customizable Space identity
  • Focused sidebar for tabs and history
  • Peek for temporary link previews
  • Optional iCloud sync
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Crest is a native browser built around Spaces: distinct places for work, personal life, private browsing, and everything between. Each Space carries its own sidebar, tabs, history, cookies, website data, passwords, permissions, extensions, and visual identity. Switch Spaces and the whole browsing context moves with you—so accounts and projects stay where they belong. SPACES, PROPERLY SEPARATED A Space is more than a tab group or color. Crest gives every Space an isolated WebKit data store, Keychain boundary, history, permissions, and extension context. Private Spaces use temporary website storage and stay out of ordinary history, restoration, archive, and sync. A CALMER SIDEBAR Keep favorites, saved folders, pinned pages, and today’s tabs in one focused sidebar. Collapse a project when it is quiet, keep the page primary, and reach history, downloads, and archive without turning browsing into window management. NATIVE ON IPHONE AND IPAD Crest is purpose-built for iPhone and iPad. iPad keeps the sidebar beside the page. iPhone gives the page the full screen and brings the same sidebar back with a gesture. Familiar platform controls, keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, and system services stay at home on every device. MAKE EACH SPACE YOURS Choose a crest, palette, and banner for a bold identity, or use a quieter traditional gradient. A Space’s appearance is not decoration alone—it is an immediate signal that your accounts, data, and tabs changed with it. QUICK LOOKS, NOT TAB DETOURS Open supported links in Peek for a temporary look without losing your place. Move the page into the current Space or another Space only when it deserves to stay. YOUR BROWSING STAYS YOURS Crest has no account system, advertising SDK, analytics pipeline, or browsing-data backend. Optional sync uses your private iCloud database. Passwords stay in the system Keychain, and private browsing remains temporary. Crest uses Apple’s WebKit and requires iOS 26.1 or iPadOS 26.1 or later. Some websites, extensions, and system integrations vary by device.

About

BBVPN

Features
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BBVPN is a fast and secure VPN proxy for iPhone with free unlimited access. Connect with one tap, hide your IP address, protect yourself on public Wi-Fi, and choose from VPN servers in 60+ countries. FREE AND UNLIMITED Use BBVPN without data caps or forced session limits. No trial period, no countdown timer, no bandwidth throttle applied to free users. Connect whenever you need a VPN and stay connected for as long as you need. No account and no registration required to start. 60+ COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE Choose from VPN servers across more than 60 countries. Switch between locations and servers whenever you need a different region, or to find the fastest connection for your current network. Server load and latency are shown in the app so you can pick the best option at a glance. PRIVACY ON PUBLIC WI-FI BBVPN encrypts your VPN connection and helps protect your internet traffic on public Wi-Fi networks in airports, hotels, cafes, offices, and other shared locations. While connected, your public IP address is replaced by the IP address of the selected server, keeping your real IP private from the websites and services you visit. NO LOGS OF YOUR VPN TRAFFIC BBVPN does not log or store your browsing history, DNS queries, VPN traffic content, or traffic destinations. What you do while connected stays yours. MODERN VPN PROTOCOLS BBVPN supports current-generation VPN technologies, including WireGuard-based and Xray protocols, built for fast and reliable connections across mobile networks, home Wi-Fi, and restrictive network conditions. If one protocol performs poorly on your network, switch to another in a single tap. BUILT FOR EVERYDAY USE Browsing, streaming, online gaming, messaging, and VoIP calls. If a connection feels slow or unstable, try another server or another protocol. Most issues are solved in two taps. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open BBVPN 2. Choose a server 3. Tap Connect That is the entire setup. No configuration files, no manual profiles, no technical knowledge needed. WHY BBVPN - Free unlimited VPN access - No data caps, no session limits - No speed limit for free users - Servers in 60+ countries - Encrypted VPN connection - Public Wi-Fi protection - Hides your public IP address - WireGuard-based and Xray protocols - Streaming, gaming, and VoIP ready - No registration required - No logs of VPN traffic WHY IS BBVPN FREE? BBVPN is supported by advertising, which covers the cost of running and maintaining our server network worldwide. That is what lets us offer the VPN with no data caps, no forced session limits, and no artificial speed limits. Advertising is handled entirely separately from VPN traffic processing. Advertising partners never receive your browsing history, DNS queries, VPN traffic content, or VPN traffic destinations. Questions or problems? Contact us at support@bbvpn.net - we read every message. For details on how BBVPN handles data, see our Privacy Policy.

Screenshots

Crest Browser4 screens
BBVPN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Crest Browser at none against BBVPN's shown. BBVPN's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.1). On price, 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Crest Browser versus BBVPN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrest BrowserBBVPN
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB79 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPaul DavisBBVPN LLC

In-app purchases

None

Crest Browser

No in-app purchases

None

BBVPN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crest Browser free?
Crest Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BBVPN free?
BBVPN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Crest Browser or BBVPN have ads?
BBVPN shows ads; Crest Browser does not.

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