Aloha Browser

Aloha Browser is built around one offer: a VPN you do not have to pay for. One tap routes the browser's traffic through Aloha's servers, with no data cap on the free plan, and that pitch has carried it past 10 million Android installs. It is Chromium underneath — WebKit on iPhone, as Apple requires — with builds for Windows and macOS alongside the phone apps. A Linux build exists but has not been updated since spring 2026, so we do not list it.

Around the VPN sits a well-equipped mobile browser: an ad and tracker blocker you switch on in settings, a video downloader, private tabs locked behind Face ID or a passcode, and sync. Its AI chat summarises pages, and Aloha says it neither logs prompts nor trains on them, though the free plan allows only a few requests a day.

The trade-off is that the free tier is the start of a sales pitch. Aloha Premium adds more locations, a VPN that covers every app on your phone and higher AI limits, and the app promotes its trials persistently. Aloha's own privacy policy also says some partners "might log your actual IP details", which is why it scores 3 for privacy. If you want a free VPN for casual browsing on your phone, Aloha does that well; if you need one whose claims you can verify, a standalone VPN service or Brave is the better route.