OpenVPN Connect is the “official” application of OpenVPN Inc. and is designed to be more user-friendly for openvpnandroid.com/total-av-review-is-it-any-good/ VPN users with limited technical knowledge. It’s also less featured than openvpn for android which is designed for more advanced OpenVPN users.

Openvpn for Android is a free and open source client developed by Arne Schwabe which allows you to connect to any VPN service that is compatible with the OpenVPN protocol. If your device doesn’t support the pre-configured VPN applications available on the Google Play Store, this is a great alternative. The setup process is quite simple. You’ll need to import the VPN profile files. (The configuration files are named.ovpn). These can be downloaded from the provider’s website or by contacting live chat support.

Once you’ve imported your profile, tap the server you want to connect to for that server to connect to it. Once connected to the server, all Internet traffic is sent through a secure tunnel and sent to the server selected by the application. You can check the status of your connection as well as information in the Status tab. A kill switch is enabled by default and will block your Internet connections when the VPN tunnel is lost.

The application provides a per-app VPN as and an option to be always on that automatically establishes an automatic VPN connection whenever the app is opened, and it will continue running even after your device has gone to sleep or switched networks. This feature, however, requires Android 7.0 and higher, and may drain your batteries more than normal.