Betternet For Mac

Using a VPN to connect to the Internet to hide your Mac's IP address is a must if you value your privacy. There are other uses for a VPN, from unlocking restricted websites in your current location to accessing geo-restricted content on your favorite media sharing website.

Betternet is a VPN client application which will allow you to connect to a VPN server to browse the Internet safer and securely by hiding your Mac's location from prying eyes and encrypting your web traffic.

Installing Betternet is just a matter of opening the Mac App Store app on your Mac, searching for it and clicking the Install button. Once launched, Betternet allows you to connect to an optimal location, chosen automatically from its list of VPN servers available for users of the free plan.

If you want to pick a particular server from Betternet's list, you will have to upgrade to the Premium plan, which also comes with priority support as well as faster and more stable servers.

However, before trying to go Premium from within the app, you must ensure that you have added your credit card or a different payment method to your Mac App Store account because, otherwise, Betternet will try upgrading, but it will only hang instead.

Unfortunately, there is no alert or support page on their website mentioning this, and we've only been able to understand what was happening only after manually trying to upgrade from Betternet's Mac App Store entry.

According to Betternet's website, license and terms of services, and privacy policy their VPN service will not monitor your online activity and will not keep logs of their user's data transfers.

According to their blog, Betternet uses AES256 encryption for OpenVPN connections and 128-bit AES-CBC encryption for IPSec, and it automatically distributes the users' web traffic among their VPN servers to further anonymize your data transfers.

On the whole, if you want to browse the web anonymously and need a secure and private connection at all times, Betternet is a good solution for your needs.

Because it does not require you to create an account, Betternet ticks yet another checkbox on our must-have privacy features for a VPN service.