The testing was conducted on an iMac running TunnelBear’s MacOS client, measuring not only the machine’s download and upload speeds while using the VPN, but also its responsiveness by pinging various games’ servers while it was engaged. TunnelBear was tested, along with its competitors, by gaging the service’s performance in both the afternoon and evening. It also has a “vigilant mode” designed to block all unsecured web traffic if its service somehow gets disconnected. TunnelBear defaults to AES 265-bit encryption, which is the strongest you can get, and promises to not log any user browsing data or personal information. One byproduct of the annual report, the penetration testing company notes, is that with each passing year TunnelBear appears to have gotten more secure. TunnelBear’s most recent audit, published in November 2019, found a dozen security-related items of note – two that were listed as “critical” and four that were highly vulnerable – but all of which TunnelBear says it has since addressed. In fact, another nice touch in TunnelBear’s service is the reassurance it provides by annually publishing independent security audits of its apps. Promoting unlimited bandwidth (for its paid users), no throttling, no buffering, and servers in 23 different countries, TunnelBear does what users expect it to – it keeps users’ browsing and location information private. The company will also award one gigabyte of additional data to users who tweet about the service, which can be used on up to 5 devices.
Yet TunnelBear’s iPad and Android tablet apps (a nice touch, rather than just phone-ports) give away its game: The company’s VPN service doesn’t really meet the demands of desktop usage, despite the fact that it’s got plugins for the Chrome, Firefox, and Opera web browsers.īut for mobile data privacy in a pinch, Tunnelbear is worth keeping tucked away in one of your mobile device’s folders, if only because it will let users protect 500 megabytes of data for free. Cute and colorful, TunnelBear’s apps may be easy on the eyes, but they are essentially just giant on/off switches overlaid on global maps of its servers. A very simple, aesthetically pleasing VPN, TunnelBear operates on a range of desktop computers and mobile devices, with MacOS, Windows, Android, and iOS apps to keep users’ data protected.
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