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Mullvad

Mullvad is one of the best for privacy, they have a totally anonymous sign up process, you don't need to provide any details at all, you can choose to pay anonymously too (with Monero, BTC or cash).

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Mullvad Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Summary

  • The terms for this service are easy to read
  • You must create an account to use this service
  • The service does not guarantee accuracy or reliability of the information provided
  • The service provider makes no warranty regarding uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free service
  • The service is provided 'as is' and to be used at your sole risk
  • An onion site accessible over Tor is provided
  • An anonymous payment method is offered
  • No third-party analytics or tracking platforms are used
  • Information is provided about what kind of information they collect
  • A free help desk is provided
  • Third parties are involved in operating the service
  • You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for the activities on your account
  • The court of law governing the terms is in location X
  • The court of law governing the terms is in a jurisdiction that is friendlier to user privacy protection
  • Information is gathered about you through third parties
  • You are informed about the risk of publishing personal info online
  • The data retention period is kept to the minimum necessary for fulfilling its purposes
  • Some personal data may be kept for business interests or legal obligations
  • This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation
  • Third parties used by the service are bound by confidentiality obligations
  • Your personal data will not be used for an automated decision-making
  • You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data
  • A complaint mechanism is provided for the handling of personal data
  • Inconvenient process for obtaining personal data
  • First-party cookies are used
  • A list of all cookies set by the website is provided
  • The service does not use any third-party advertising services
  • The service will resist legal requests for your information where reasonably possible
  • You will be notified if personal data has been affected by data breaches
  • You can access most of the pages on the service's website without revealing any personal information
  • The service explains how to prevent disclosure of personal information to third parties
  • You are not being tracked
  • IP addresses of website visitors are not tracked
  • There is a date of the last update of the agreements
  • When the service wants to make a material change to its terms, you are notified at least 30 days in advance
  • The service claims to be GDPR compliant for European users
  • Only necessary logs are kept by the service to ensure quality
  • You can retrieve an archive of your data (under very limited circumstances)

Score

B

Documents

Domains Covered by Policy

  • mullvad.net
  • o54hon2e2vj6c7m3aqqu6uyece65by3vgoxxhlqlsvkmacw6a7m7kiad.onion

About the Data

This data is kindly provided by tosdr.org. Read full report at: #641

Mullvad Source Code

Author

mullvad

Description

The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop and mobile

#electron#nodejs#openvpn#rust#vpn#wireguard

Homepage

https://mullvad.net/

License

GPL-3.0

Created

19 Dec 17

Last Updated

12 Jul 26

Latest version

tui

Primary Language

Rust

Size

302,198 KB

Stars

7,358

Forks

502

Watchers

7,358

Language Usage

Language Usage

Star History

Star History

Top Contributors

Recent Commits

  • Emīls (12 Jul 26)

    Merge branch 'ios-virtual-networking'

  • Emīls (10 Jul 26)

    Allow 0BSD in mullvad-ios

  • Emīls (22 Jun 26)

    Add generated uniffi bindings for gotatun

  • Emīls (22 Jun 26)

    Use uniffi for the gotatun FFI in mullvad-ios Replace the hand-written cbindgen gotatun FFI with uniffi proc-macro bindings, and add the bindgen bin and generation script.

  • Emīls (10 Jul 26)

    Document unsafety in gotatun

  • Emīls (16 Jun 26)

    Add iOS tunnel adapter and FFI layer Wire the virtual network stack into an iOS tunnel adapter and expose it to Swift through the C FFI: a config builder, tunnel lifecycle calls (start/stop/suspend/wake/recycle), the TUN device bridge and an ICMP pinger. Updates the generated C header and builds the WireGuard crypto hot path with optimizations even in debug builds for acceptable on-device throughput.

  • Emīls (16 Jun 26)

    Add IP muxing and connection tracking IP multiplexer splits and merges traffic between the TUN device and the virtual network stack, together with the connection tracker that maps flows so return traffic is routed back to the right peer. Includes the optimized return-traffic parsing path.

  • Emīls (16 Jun 26)

    Add gotatun smoltcp virtual network stack Introduce the in-process virtual network stack used by the iOS tunnel, built on smoltcp. This provides a userspace IP interface (TCP, ICMP and poll loop) that runs over the WireGuard data path without touching the kernel routing table. Pulls in the smoltcp dependency and related crates, and extends the mullvad-ios crate to build for macOS as well as iOS so the networking code can be exercised off-device.

  • Jonatan Rhodin (10 Jul 26)

    Merge branch 'update-translations-july-26'

  • Jonatan Rhodin (10 Jul 26)

    Update translations

  • Emīls (10 Jul 26)

    Merge branch 'allow-bsd-0-clause'

  • Emīls (10 Jul 26)

    Allow 0BSD license dependencies 0BSD is compatible with GPLv3 and more permissive than other BSD licenses we already support. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Zero-BSD

  • Emīls (10 Jul 26)

    Merge branch 'ios-document-unsafe'

  • Emīls (06 Jul 26)

    Use *mut pointers where applicable

  • Emīls (05 Jul 26)

    Document all uses of `unsafe` in mullvad-ios

  • Jonatan Rhodin (09 Jul 26)

    Merge branch 'fix-e2e'

  • Jonatan Rhodin (09 Jul 26)

    Fix E2E tests issues - Request local network acccess to fix Android 17 issues - Disable DAITA test due to daita multihop being removed

  • Emīls (09 Jul 26)

    Merge branch 'fix-settings-migration-issue-ios'

  • Mojgan (07 Jul 26)

    Resolve settings migration issue

  • Sebastian Holmin (08 Jul 26)

    Merge branch 'remove-daita-cfg'

  • Sebastian Holmin (07 Jul 26)

    Remove DAITA cfg-gate DAITA is supported on all platforms, so there's no need to bloat the codebase with code to gate its compilation anymore.

  • Emīls (08 Jul 26)

    Merge branch 'ios-update-fastlane'

  • Emīls (08 Jul 26)

    Update lock files for Fastlane This should makes no longer vulnerable to https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-98m9-hrrm-r99r

  • Markus Pettersson (07 Jul 26)

    Merge branch 'add-multihop-tristate-to-settings-des-2904'

  • Markus Pettersson (07 Jul 26)

    Update android gRPC bindings

  • Tobias Järvelöv (01 Jul 26)

    Update translations

  • Tobias Järvelöv (07 Jul 26)

    Update label copy for `SetAs*MenuOption` to conform to Figma design

  • Tobias Järvelöv (01 Jul 26)

    Use hook to determine if Daita is enabled without Direct only

  • Tobias Järvelöv (01 Jul 26)

    Add hook to return if Daita is used without Direct only

  • Tobias Järvelöv (01 Jul 26)

    Extract logic for when to show "Set Entry/Exit" menu options into hooks

Mullvad Security

8.6/10

Repo Security Summary

Updated 29 Jun 26

  • Maintained 10/10
  • Code-Review 9/10
  • Security-Policy 10/10
  • CII-Best-Practices 5/10
  • Packaging N/A
  • Dangerous-Workflow 10/10
  • License 10/10
  • Token-Permissions 10/10
  • Branch-Protection 8/10
  • Signed-Releases 8/10
  • Fuzzing 0/10
  • SAST 10/10
  • Pinned-Dependencies 8/10
  • Binary-Artifacts 10/10

Security Advisories (2)

  • medium Patched CVSS 6.5

    GHSA-h72f-j6r4-c3jc Renderer-controlled installer path can lead to arbitrary package launch due to missing main-process binding to verified installer path

  • high Patched CVSS 7.3

    CVE-2026-32323 CVE-2026-32323: macOS Local Privilege Escalation in Mullvad VPN installer

Mullvad Website

Website

Free the internet with Mullvad Browser

The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s produced to minimize tracking and fingerprinting.

Redirects

Redirects to https://mullvad.net/en/browser

Security Checks

All 65 security checks passed

Server Details

  • IP Address 45.83.223.209
  • Location Malmoe, Skane lan, Sweden, EU
  • ISP 31173 Services AB
  • ASN AS39351

Categories

Some proxies may block this service, as it falls into the following categories

  • VPN Provider

Associated Countries

  • DE DE
  • SE SE
  • US US
  • CA CA

Safety Score

Website marked as safe

100%

Blacklist Check

mullvad.net was found on 0 blacklists

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Website Preview

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Mullvad Android App

APK Info

De-Googled Compatibility

Native 4.00 / 4 25 ratings
microG 4.00 / 4 16 ratings
  • GrapheneOS Native 4.0 / 4 (17)
  • CalyxOS microG 4.0 / 4 (9)
  • LineageOS Native 4.0 / 4 (5)
  • LineageOS microG 4.0 / 4 (3)
  • iodeOS microG 4.0 / 4 (3)
  • crDroid Native 4.0 / 4 (2)

Tested on Android 13–16 · Updated 14 Jun 26 · View on Plexus →

Trackers

No trackers found

Permissions

  • Access Network State
  • Foreground Service
  • Foreground Service System Exempted
  • Internet
  • Post Notifications
  • Query All Packages
  • Dynamic Receiver Not Exported Permission

Mullvad iOS App

App Info

Mullvad VPN

Free the internet from data collection with Mullvad VPN – a service that helps keep your online activity, identity, and location private. Only €5/month. GET STARTED 1. Install the app. 2. Create an account. 3. Add time to your account via in-app purchases, vouchers or on our website. To make sure to block third-party cookies and other tracking technologies – use Mullvad VPN together with Mullvad Browser (free of charge). ANONYMOUS ACCOUNTS – NO ACTIVITY LOGS * Creating an account requires no personal info - not even an email address. * We keep no activity logs. * We offer the possibility to pay anonymously with cash or cryptocurrency. * Our app uses WireGuard, a superior VPN protocol that connects fast and doesn’t drain your battery. HOW DOES MULLVAD VPN WORK? With Mullvad VPN, your traffic travels through an encrypted tunnel to one of our VPN servers and then onward to the website you are visiting. In this way, websites will only see our server’s identity instead of yours. Same goes for your ISP (internet service provider); they’ll see that you’re connected to Mullvad, but not your activity. It also means that all the third-party actors with technology integrated into the various websites you visit can’t sniff out your IP address and use it to track you from one site to another. Using a trustworthy VPN is a great first step to reclaim your privacy online. In combination with Mullvad Browser you make sure to block third-party cookies and other tracking technologies. FREE THE INTERNET FROM MASS SURVEILLANCE AND DATA COLLECTION A free and open society is a society where people have the right to privacy. That’s why we fight for a free internet. Free from mass surveillance and censorship. Free from big data markets where your personal information is up for sale. Free from authorities mass monitoring every click you make. Free from an infrastructure mapping your whole life. Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser is our contribution to the fight. TELEMETRY AND CRASH REPORTS The app collects a very minimal amount of telemetry, and it does not in any way tie it to an account number, IP or other identifiable information. Account numbers are used for authentication. App logs are never sent automatically but are rather explicitly sent by the user. App version checks are performed every 24 hours to tell the app if there are any upgrades available and if the currently running version is still supported.

Rating

Rated 4.14 out of 5 stars by 1,352 users

Version Info

  • Current Version 2026.2
  • Last Updated 21 Apr 26
  • First Released 08 Apr 20
  • Minimum iOS Version 17.0
  • Device Models Supported 127

App Details

  • IPA Size 46.29 Mb
  • Price Free (USD)
  • Age Advisory 4+
  • Supported Languages 20
  • Developer Mullvad VPN AB
  • Bundle ID net.mullvad.MullvadVPN

Screenshots

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Mullvad Docker

Container Info

Mullvad-browser

The [Mullvad Browser](https://mullvad.net/en/browser) is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network. Instead, you can use it with a trustworthy VPN.

#Web Browser#VPN linuxserver/mullvad-browser:latest

Run Command

docker run -d \
  -p 3000:3000/tcp \
  -p 3001:3001/tcp \
  -e PUID=${PUID} \
  -e PGID=${PGID} \
  -e TZ=${TZ} \
  -e LOCAL_NET=${LOCAL_NET} \
  -v /srv/lsio/mullvad-browser/config:/config \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  linuxserver/mullvad-browser:latest

Compose File

version: 3.8
services:
  mullvad-browser:
    image: "linuxserver/mullvad-browser:latest"
    ports:
      - "3000:3000/tcp"
      - "3001:3001/tcp"
    environment:
      PUID: 1000
      PGID: 1000
      TZ: Etc/UTC
      LOCAL_NET: 192.168.0.0/16
    volumes:
      - "/srv/lsio/mullvad-browser/config:/config"
    restart: unless-stopped

Environment Variables

  • Var Name Default
  • PUID 1000
  • PGID 1000
  • TZ Etc/UTC
  • LOCAL_NET 192.168.0.0/16

Port List

  • 3000:3000/tcp
  • 3001:3001/tcp

Volume Mounting

  • /srv/lsio/mullvad-browser/config /config

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