Yes, it's free: the public beta is open to everyone. You install the beta app, your time is credited by itself, no card and no code to type. The network there is capped at 20 Mbps and mostly exists to flush out bugs, but it is the real Warren. Note that the beta closes at the public launch; the full service described below takes over then. Join the free beta

A next-generation VPN. Your traffic leaves encrypted through my servers: your internet provider sees nothing, and websites see you somewhere else. The difference with a classic VPN: on the wire, a Warren connection looks like ordinary web browsing, so firewalls and censors that block VPNs cannot spot it. Learn more

True, I did not really explain, I am a bit in my own "bubble". It is an English acronym, they often are, for Virtual Private Network. It lets you use the internet in a way that stays private. The ways to identify you and record your every move are legion. The basic starting point is your IP, the address of the device you use. The VPN hides it behind another one, which the VPN provides. So the point is to stay anonymous on the web, but also to get past the barriers set up behind your modem, your router. So many companies, organisations and even governments think captivity is good for you. So these philanthropic organisations block VPN users. A good VPN must therefore not be recognisable as one. That is what Warren does: it passes for ordinary browsing, which in itself is frankly not ordinary.

Because the app generates a secret key right on your device, and that key IS your account. I know neither your name, nor your email, nor your address: only a public key and an expiry date. You cannot leak a customer file that does not exist.

Then you are done for. Nobody can recover it, not even me: it exists in no database, anywhere. Write it down on paper and keep it safe. That is the direct price of anonymity, and it is non-negotiable.

No. No visited sites, no DNS queries, no connection timestamps, no source IP, no per-user volume. My exit servers run in RAM, with no disk for activity: a reboot erases everything. The full details, including the little I use to keep running, are on the no-log "No log" page. Learn more

The same key works on all your devices. You can have 3 simultaneous connections. Installing on a new device costs nothing: only active connections count.

With a bank card, a cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Lightning, Monero, Solana, Polkadot), or a voucher code you enter in the app without creating an account: every payment follows the same principle, it credits a code, never your key. The link between your money and your traffic simply does not exist. Learn more

Receiving inbound connections through the tunnel: it is no longer about going out, but about letting in. Hosting your small home server, improving P2P sharing, playing online. Most consumer VPNs removed it; I designed mine to stay clean: dedicated ports, temporary allocations, nothing ever written to disk. Learn more

Everywhere. macOS, Windows and Linux as direct downloads, Android and iOS through Google Play and the App Store. The same key works on all your devices: details on the "Install the app" page. Learn more

No free trial on the paid service, and by default nothing to cancel: you buy prepaid time, it gets used, it expires, and I keep no payment method on my servers. If you enabled auto-renewal (an option, unchecked by default), the authorization stays on your device and your card stays at the payment provider, deleted as soon as you turn the option off, in one click in the app.

No. The renewal authorization is kept on your device, not on my servers. Between two payments, my database does not even know you are on auto-renewal: you leave exactly the same traces as someone buying their credits again by hand every month. And the payment still credits a code, never your key. Learn more

One click in the app, or without the app via the "Cancel your contract" page of the payment site. The authorization is forgotten and the saved payment method is deleted at our processor; if a charge just happened without its month having started, it is refunded automatically. Nobody to call, and the time already credited stays yours.

Your app drives the renewal, since it holds the authorization. It notifies you at least 30 days before each renewal date, then charges a few days before expiry (one month at a time) and automatically retries over the following days if needed. If it never launches during that window, the plan simply expires, with no charge: you top up the next time you open it.

Installed side by side, yes. Connected at the same time, no. While Warren is connected, its kill switch only lets the tunnel and your local network out (10.x, 172.16.x, 192.168.x). The 100.64.0.0/10 range Tailscale hands to its machines is not part of it, so tailscaled and its relays stay blocked, and my DNS blockers use an address in that same range. Opening that range outside the tunnel would also open your mobile carrier's network: I don't. Turn Tailscale off before connecting Warren, or the other way round.