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EventVPN Review 2026: Pay a Little to See Ads, Pay a Lot for No Features - CNET

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4.6

Pros & Cons

  • Flexible “free” plan
  • Decent basic privacy foundation
  • Solid international server roster on both paid and free tiers
  • Middling speeds
  • Free plan not actually free
  • Only supports Apple Silicon Macs, not Intel Macs
  • Clunky, buggy app with minimal features
  • Poor value compared to competitors
  • Overreliance on Apple

If you’re a casual virtual private network user seeking a free VPN for use on your MacBook, iPhone, iPad or Apple Vision Pro, EventVPN gives you more flexibility than some competitors like Proton VPN and PrivadoVPN. But it adds up to less than the sum of its parts, and far less when talking about EventVPN’s paid plan.

In my weeks of testing EventVPN, I found some things I liked. You can connect to any server on the free plan, there are no usage limits and the main trade-off is that it’s ad-supported (your screen will sometimes look...

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