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Free is the plan, not the trial
No countdown, no data cap, no adverts, and no card at sign-up. Premium buys the faster end of the server list, and the free plan is not made worse to help that sale along.
Ignore Premium forever and nothing changes.
A VPN that never asks for your card
gmeow opens an encrypted OpenVPN tunnel on your Android phone. No adverts, no data cap, no countdown to a paywall. Premium exists, and the free plan does not expire when you ignore it.
Where you can come out
Exits on five continents
The list is rebuilt on a schedule, so it grows and shrinks on its own. The app shows you what is live right now rather than a number printed on a website months ago.
Why GMEOW
Three promises, with no small print under them
Short enough that you can hold us to them. Everything else on this site is detail hanging off one of the three.
An ordinary tunnel, on purpose
OpenVPN, which people outside this project have spent twenty years reading and trying to break. No cryptography of our own invention and no protocol named after us, because neither would have been looked at by anybody else.
The app shows you which protocol is carrying your traffic.
Your lookups stay yours
The server you come out of does not get to decide what resolves your domain names. GMEOW sets that inside the tunnel on every plan, the free one included, and there is no switch anywhere to turn it off.
Premium adds ad and tracker filtering, or a resolver you run.
Getting going
Three taps, then it is out of your way
1
Install and sign up
An email address and a password. No card, no phone number, no identity check, and nothing to cancel later.
2
Pick a country
The list is sorted so the servers worth trying are near the top. Star the ones that behave and they stay there.
3
Tap once
Android asks for VPN permission the first time. After that the address on the Home screen changes, and that change is the confirmation.
Or let it connect on its own
Auto-connect can fire when the app opens, when the phone joins a Wi-Fi network, or when it drops back to mobile data. Each one is its own switch. One thing said plainly: the Wi-Fi switch means any Wi-Fi, because telling one network from another needs location permission and this app does not ask for your location.
If you read before you install
Every screen, and every limit
There is a page that walks through the app one screen at a time and ends with the things GMEOW will not pretend to do. Worth the five minutes if you would rather find the limits now than after you have installed it.
Questions
The ones we are actually asked
Is the free plan really free forever?
Yes. No time limit, no data cap, no adverts, and no trial that quietly
ends. A free account runs one tunnel at a time and can pick from roughly
one server in five.
What protocol does GMEOW use?
OpenVPN, over UDP or TCP depending on the server you pick. It is the only
protocol the server list offers, which is why the app shows it as a fact
rather than a setting.
How many devices can I use at once?
One tunnel on the free plan, three on Premium. The count is enforced when
a tunnel is opened, so signing in on a fourth device does not silently
drop one of the others.
What is a voucher code?
A code that redeems to a fixed stretch of Premium from Account inside the
app. No card, no renewal, and nothing stored to charge you later.
Does ad blocking work inside other apps?
It works wherever a name has to be looked up, which is most of the phone
and not only the browser. It cannot catch an advert served from the same
domain as the content around it, because there is no name to refuse. That
limit is worth knowing before you turn it on and expect silence.
Do you keep logs of what I do?
No browsing history, no DNS queries and no traffic contents. What is kept
is the account you signed up with, the tunnels currently open so the
device limit can be enforced, and a short-lived record of connection
attempts so failures can be found and fixed. The
privacy policy lists every field and how long
each one lives.
Can I delete my account myself?
Yes, from Settings → Support → Privacy & Data → Danger Zone → Delete
Account. It removes the account and everything stored with it, and clears
the copies on the handset. A Google Play subscription is separate and has
to be cancelled in Play, or the charges continue after the account is
gone.
Which Android versions are supported?
Android 7 and newer. The always-on kill switch is Android's own feature,
so how it appears depends on your phone's version and its manufacturer's
settings app.
Free, no card, no clock
Start with the free plan and stay on it
If Premium is never worth it to you, that is a fine outcome. The free plan is not a demonstration of the paid one.