
The app is free to download, but there are premium options. On your phone, TunnelBear stays active in the background, so you can use any app you like, whilst remaining invisible online. TunnelBear is designed to make this complex tech accessible to everyone, hence the inclusion of a big, friendly on/off switch to make it all work. All of this is presented in a fun, incredibly cute, and simple to understand way. Once hidden behind the VPN, your own IP address isn’t visible on the Internet, and that means online trackers for advertising (or something more malicious) can’t follow you around. Setting the app up is easy, it’s turned on using an on/off switch, and selecting the country of choice is only a matter of tapping a Mario-like pipe on a cute map, then watching the titular bear make its way there. Netflix? That’s what TunnelBear will facilitate. One of the most common uses for a VPN is to watch online streaming video in places where the service is usually blocked. That’s a considerable bonus, because we’re all using our mobile devices to browse the Internet and watch videos more and more.


What’s more, it operates on your PC, Mac, through a Chrome browser extension, or your Android or iOS smartphone.

The idea behind TunnelBear is to make these often complicated features easy for everyone to use.
