The Best VPNs for Singapore

Despite its popularity, you shouldn’t trust this VPN with your browsing history and personal information.

Next Hour, the company behind Singapore VPN — The VPN Master, owns four other VPNs on the Google Play Store.

All of them have the same privacy policy despite being separate services.

We also suspect this privacy policy was copied and pasted from another VPN’s website, as it mentions Tap VPN, which is a completely different VPN service and company.

Another red flag is the broken blue ‘Get Started’ button on Next Hour’s company homepage.

Overall, we highly recommend steering clear of this shady company and its unsafe free VPNs.

Developed by helalik, Singapore VPN is another unsafe free VPN service available on the Google Play store.

We read its privacy policy and found it logs your IP address and timestamps for an unspecified amount of time.

It also states that Singapore VPN is an “Ad Supported app” so it will regularly show you annoying ads when using the service.

Urban VPN Free claims to be a VPN service, but it’s actually a a peer-to-peer proxy network. We found it doesn’t encrypt your data at all and collects your IP address and browsing activity.

Urban VPN’s subscription supposedly opts you out of this network, but without a third-party audit, it’s impossible to know for sure.

UFO VPN is not a safe or trustworthy VPN. It says its a no-logs service, but it suffered a data breach in 2020 that proved it was keeping extensive logs on its users. The breach revealed it logged: plaintext user passwords, real IP addresses and VPN servers used, timestamps, location data, and more.

UFO VPN is also based in Hong Kong, which is no longer a safe jurisdiction for VPN services.

The easiest way to hide your online activity from your internet service provider and any government agencies they may be collaborating with, is to use a VPN service to encrypt your online traffic.

With your internet traffic encrypted, Singaporean ISPs like Singtel, StarHub, and M1 can’t see your online activity.

It also prevents search engines and social media sides from tracking your browsing history.

Whether you’re on vacation, a business trip, or relocating, you’ll need to access the internet while abroad.

You’ll often need to rely on public WiFi spots, such as airports, train stations, hotels, and cafés. But using public WiFi can open you up to hackers.

Your usernames, passwords, and banking details could be at risk. A VPN encrypts this information to keep your personal information safe when you’re on the go.

In Singapore, there are various laws introduced by the government to block access to websites it deems unsuitable for Singaporeans.

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) is the authority that dictates to local ISPs which websites and apps to block.

Over the years, it has forced ISPs to block thousands of gambling, adult and illegal streaming websites.

However, it’s easy to circumvent these web blocks using a VPN. Simply connect to server location in a different country to get an IP address from that country and bypass the local restriction.

With a Singapore IP address, you can watch TV shows and movies on local streaming services like meWatch and StarHub TV+.

You can also view the Singapore content libraries on Disney+, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video.

In Singapore, P2P file sharing is legal, but if the content you are sharing and downloading is copyrighted then it’s illegal. Torrenting websites such as The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents are blocked in Singapore.

In February 2022, the Coalition Against Piracy announced that illegal streaming websites are now also blocked in Singapore.

These include: 123Movies, DramaCool, FMovies, KissAsian, SoccerOnline, and Stream2Watch. Furthermore, alternate domains of these websites (e.g. 123movies.vu) are also now unavailable in the region unless you use a VPN.

• Test Conducted: We evaluated each VPN’s server network, focusing on the number of servers available in Singapore and across other Asian countries.
• Why It’s Important: A Singapore VPN server is essential for getting a Singapore IP address, enabling access to local content and services.
• Optimal Result: Multiple VPN servers in Singapore and locations across Asia.

• Test Conducted: We analyzed each VPN’s obfuscation tools and tested their ability to access websites and apps typically blocked in Singapore.
• Why It’s Important: Obfuscation enables you to access restricted sites and apps, such as torrent sites and adult content, which are usually censored in Singapore.
• Optimal Result: Consistently effective obfuscation protocols or features that reliably bypass Singapore’s web censorship.

• Test Conducted: We tested every VPN’s ability to unblock global streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, BBC iPlayer, as well as Singaporean content platforms, like meWATCH and StarHub TV+.
• Why It’s Important: To bypass geo-restrictions, letting you stream content not typically available in Singapore or access Singaporean shows while abroad.
• Optimal Result: Consistently unblocks international and Singapore content libraries and streaming services on every server.

• Test Conducted: Conducted in-house speed tests to assess each VPN’s average international download speed.
• Why It’s Important: Fast speeds are crucial for smooth browsing and high-quality, buffer-free streaming, and lag-free gaming. Especially when connecting to far-away servers from Singapore, like Mexico, to access region-specific content libraries.
• Optimal Result: Less than 10% download speed loss compared to our normal internet connection.

• Test Conducted: We analyzed each VPN’s privacy policy to find out what data is stored and for how long.
• Why It’s Important: A VPN with strong privacy protections ensures your online activity remains private and secure, away from strict Singaporean government oversight and data retention laws.
• Optimal Result: A verified no-logs policy, diskless servers, and privacy-friendly company jurisdiction.