SmartyDNS

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About SmartDNS

SmartyDNS was founded in August 2013 but the idea of this service was cooking in our minds for the last couple of months before the launch. We wanted to deliver online freedom to people so they can access contents and services they missed. While growing considerably within the last years, our team became bigger and we have gained the experience that led us to developing our idea into something even bigger: we have started to provide VPN service.

Interestingly, we started it as a small project with no much hope of growing very much in terms of client base. But that changed when we decided to make it a full premium service with reasonably good looking software and mobile apps. Ever since, we are in the evolution phase of improving ourselves, apps, software and the service itself continuously. Luckily, we had the right combination of skills among our team members; we have member with network technologies background, design, user experience and customer support.

Our clients are mainly with us because of competitive prices, personal approach and customer support. The reason behind all of these traits is the same; our team is powered by passion and desire of delivering the best products and services possible. One of the things we really feel proud of is our attitude toward clients. Sometimes clients request to add some new feature and we use their valuable feedback to add these features.

Although we started the journey with a small team yet we needed more people to continue it. We have been hiring since then and our hiring criteria is thorough; we want people who also want to deliver better and better user experience by our software, mobile apps, customer care and the service itself. We are very confident of maintaining our reviews and ratings in the future too.

You can read more here.




VPN Feature








- Application

SmartDNS is application is available to be downloaded and it support different kind of devices from Window, macOS, mobile Android and also iOS. Head over to the page here to download. SmartyDNS also support manual configuration of VPN for device such as Apple TV.





Image below show the GUI upon first launch



The main user interface consist of two service tab in which user can login into namely the VPN and SmartDNS tab.




Once logon to the VPN account user can then choose from 6 different server available to connect to



Also note that you can easily choose the best server by clicking on the "Sort by speed" button next to it.


- Setting



From the setting tab there are all sort of option user can set based on their preferences.



The App Killer feature which similar to kill switch allow user to stop/kill selected application immediately whenever the connection is unstable or stopped. Simply add the application executable file to the list to enable the feature.



The support tab allow user to submit ticker to the SmartDNS support team easily with just a simple click in case if you encounter any difficulties or bug that need to be reported. From there various information such as application current version and application log is accessible within a click of a button.

- Speedtest


Speedtest result without VPN conneted.


Speedtest result connected to the best sorted server, Singapore.


Speedtest result connected to Australia server.




SmartDNS Feature





With SmartDNS user can start to browse any regional restricted website without affecting internet speed. This feature is ideal for user who wish to access streaming video site such as Hulu.

You can find all the list which can be unblocked with the SmartDNS feature here.


- SmartDNS Application



Note that the Smart DNS Key can be obtained from user dashboard.



There are 4 different DNS region (US, UK, CA, amd DE) and server (Europe, Australia, Asia, and USA) to be choose from. Simply click on the "Enable Smart DNS" button to start using.


Pricning



SmartDNS also does provide 3 day trial with fully functional account for new user who wish to try out their service. It's absolutely free! No sign up fees or credit card required! Visit the page here to register.




Final Verdict

Pros

- Sleek application GUI
- Kill switch also allow to choose certain application to be terminated
- Generous 3 day free trial
- Live chat support (available on weekday)
- Competitive pricing
- No logging
- P2P allowed



Cons

- Limited VPN location and server to choose from

[tregs_beales]

Nice review thanks.

[baziroll]

thanks for detailed review

[tarekma7]

Thanks for the review Cool

[Starship]

Thanks for detailed review!

[kubik67]

Thanks for the interesting review.