Hotspot Shield VPN is one of the most popular VPNs used to access the blocked Internet services and websites which are under Geo-blocking restrictions. It is an easy-to-use VPN app to change your IP address but sometimes it becomes hard to use because of heavy restrictions.

Hotspot Shield VPN encrypts all your internet activities by assigning an IP address from its AnchorFree’s servers. All data sent and received through the network you are belonged to by VPN is highly encrypted in order to be difficult tracking you.

Pros:

Hotspot Shield VPN gives you many choices of IP addresses from USA and UK to surf Internet anonymously without any limits.

It protects your persona information during online activities like online shopping and online banking deals through HTTPS encryption.

AnchorFree offers easy and different payment methods such as credit cards and PayPal. There are some countries provide subscriptions by cell phone.

30 day money back guarantee, in addition to yearly and six-monthly subscriptions are offered by default.

Simultaneous connections: up to five devices can be connected simultaneously from Elite account.

Bypass Internet censorship and unblock websites like Facebook and YouTube plus bypass live broadcasts services such as Netflix and Hulu through the American IP address assigned by AnchorFree’s servers.

You can access VoIP application also easily.

Protect your Wi-Fi connection and prevent spying processes from stealing your sensitive and personal data.

It’s convenient with Windows, Mac OS x, iOS, and Android.

There is a trial version to test the service before payment.

Good servers speed and reliable connection.

Cons:

Hotspot Shield VPN does not provide clear information about encryption methods and other available protocols.

No secure payment method

No P2P protection

There are annoying ads injected by free version and this may make your device vulnerable to security threats.

 No live support and slow responses.

Generally Hotspot Shield VPN developers still do their best to improve its encryption techniques avoiding users’ complaints.