Documents by Readdle gets its own built-in VPN for safer, speedy surfing
What you need to know
- Documents by Readdle has been updated with a built-in VPN.
- Readdle touts impressive VPN speeds.
- Users get 50MB free each day.
Documents by Readdle just received an update with the headline feature being the addition of a VPN to the app. It'll work outside the app as well, making this a free iOS-wide VPN.
Readdle will be giving users 50MB of data to use each day with an unlimited plan available for $89.99 per year or $12.49 per month as part of Documents Plus. The Documents app itself remains free and can be downloaded from the App Store.
With this update, Documents becomes more of a super-app rather than the document browser that it once was. In reality that's a direction Readdle has been taking the app for some time, too.
VPNs are great ways to protect your privacy or make services think you are in a different location to where you really are. But they can often slow your internet to a crawl. Readdle says that isn't the case here, although I haven't carried out my own testing yet. Readdle shared screenshots of speed tests on its blog and things do look promising. That might change when more people get onto their servers, though.
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