The Best VPNs for Singapore

We’ve tested 62 VPNs for Singapore on multiple devices, we found four that truly stood out from all the rest.

These four VPNs are the most effective for connecting into and out of Singapore. They’ll encrypt your web traffic, assign you a Singapore IP address, bypass online censorship, and unblock geo-restricted websites like meWatch or Netflix.

These VPNs worked reliably on all our test devices, including PC, Mac, iPhone, Android smartphones, Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, PlayStation, and Xbox.

The best VPNs for Singapore offer multiple Singapore servers, fast international speeds, low ping times, and easy access to geo-restricted streaming services.

Here’s a table comparing our chosen paid and free VPNs for Singapore:

In the list below, we explain in more detail which VPNs are best for Singapore and why:

Getting a Singapore IP address only takes a few minutes. Follow the video tutorial below or check out our instructions:

Some popular Android VPNs are unsafe and log excessive amounts of data. Others just missed out on our list because they didn’t have enough server locations near Singapore.

Here are some examples of VPNs you should not use for Singapore:

SingaporeVPN – The VPN Master

Despite its popularity, you shouldn’t trust this VPN with your browsing history and personal information.

We read its privacy policy and found it logs your IP address and timestamps for an unspecified amount of time. It also states that SingaporeVPN is an “Ad Supported app,” so it will regularly show you annoying ads when using the service.

Next Hour, the company behind SingaporeVPN, owns five VPNs on the Google Play Store. All of these apps seem to be based in the same location and strangely link to alphapos.shop, a payment service provider, as the official developer website.

Urban VPN

Urban VPN Free claims to be a VPN service, but it’s actually a a peer-to-peer proxy network. We found it doesn’t encrypt your data at all and collects your IP address and browsing activity.

Urban VPN’s subscription supposedly opts you out of this network, but without a third-party audit, it’s impossible to know for sure.

UFO VPN

UFO VPN is not a safe or trustworthy VPN. It says its a no-logs service, but it suffered a data breach in 2020 that proved it was keeping extensive logs on its users. The breach revealed it logged: plaintext user passwords, real IP addresses and VPN servers used, timestamps, location data, and more.

UFO VPN is also based in Hong Kong, which is no longer a safe jurisdiction for VPN services.

If you live in Singapore or are traveling there, you’ll need a VPN to use the internet with complete freedom.

A VPN does this by replacing your IP address with a new VPN server IP address from a different country. After, you access websites that are blocked in Singapore but available in other countries.

With your internet traffic encrypted, Singaporean ISPs like Singtel, StarHub, and M1 can’t see your online activity.

1. Unblock Adult Content

In Singapore, the Films Act, Undesirable Publications Act, and the Penal Code have made it illegal to make, keep, distribute, and sell pornographic material.

Singapore maintains a symbolic 100-website ban, most of them pornographic. This online ban communicates the government’s disapproval of pornographic material and prevents children from accessing adult websites.

However, it is possible to circumvent this ban using a VPN service, Google DNS, or alternate domains.

2. Torrent

In Singapore, P2P file sharing is legal, but if the content you are sharing and downloading is copyrighted then it’s illegal. Torrenting websites such as The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents are blocked in Singapore.

In February 2022, the Coalition Against Piracy announced that illegal streaming websites are now also blocked in Singapore.

These include: 123Movies, DramaCool, FMovies, KissAsian, SoccerOnline, and Stream2Watch. Furthermore, alternate domains of these websites (e.g. 123movies.vu) are also now unavailable in the region unless you use a VPN.

3. Protect Travelers & Expats

Whether you’re on vacation, business trip, or relocating, you’ll need to access the internet while abroad. When traveling, you’ll often need to rely on public WiFi spots, such as airports, train stations, hotels, and cafes.

But using public WiFi can open you up to hackers. Your usernames, passwords, and banking details could be at risk. A VPN will encrypt this information and keep your personal information safe.

4. Enhance Privacy & Security

Without a VPN, ISPs, government agencies, search engines, website owners can all have access to your online activity.

For example, the government could ask your ISP to hand over your IP address, which websites you’ve visited, and which emails you’ve sent.

5. Unblock Streaming Services

If you’re traveling to Singapore, you can use a VPN to access all the movies and TV shows from home.

VPNs are a great solution if you want to keep up to date with your favorite sports matches. For example, expats from Indonesia might use a VPN to watch badminton matches and British travelers might use a VPN to catch up on soccer games.

Our experts use a scientific testing system to find out which VPNs are the best for Singapore.

In the table below, you can see how each recommended VPN performs in our key testing categories:

Here’s a more detailed explanation of what we look for in a Singapore VPN:

Singapore Servers: 30%

For each VPN, we counted the number of Singapore servers and servers in Asia overall.

VPN services with multiple server locations in Singapore received higher ratings. VPNs with one server in Singapore and more than 10 servers across Asia also received a good score. VPNs with no servers in Singapore and less than ten servers across Asia received low ratings.

Bypassing Singapore Censorship: 25%

We tested each VPN’s obfuscation to see how effective it is at bypassing Singapore’s web censorship. Singapore’s government blocks websites to communicate its disapproval of certain actions (e.g. torrenting) but these blocks are easily bypassed with a good VPN service.

VPNs with obfuscation that can unblock websites in Singapore were given higher scores. VPNs with ineffective obfuscation or have no obfuscation received lower scores.

Streaming: 20%

We manually tested each VPN to find out if they can unblock geo-restricted streaming services, including services in Singapore.

We rank the VPNs according to the amount of streaming services they unblock and the number of international libraries they work with. VPNs that receive high scores work to unblock Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Hotstar, meWatch, and more.

Speed: 15%

We manually tested the average download speed, upload speed, and ping time of every VPN before and after connecting to servers in Singapore.

We also have automated VPN speed tests that monitor the most popular VPN’s speeds constantly. This data is updated every eight weeks to maintain up-to-date statistics.

The fastest VPNs with low ping times received the higher scores in this category. Meanwhile, VPNs that struggled to offer fast download speeds and caused buffering got lower scores.

Privacy & Logging Policy: 10%

We analyzed every VPN’s privacy policy, noting whether they store your IP address, browsing history, and connection timestamps. We also note down for how long the VPN stores this data for.

VPNs that store as little information as possible and immediately delete the information after a VPN session received higher scores. We also rewarded VPNs with a diskless server network and third-party audit. VPNs that logged excessive amount of data and based in unsafe jurisdictions received lower ratings in this category.