Genuinely free
No subscription, no paid tier, no in-app purchases, and no trial period that quietly runs out.
The app is not in Google Play yet — it is still being built. This page describes what the first release will be; everything written here will be checked against the finished app before it is published.
An app for AndroidSoon
A free VPN for Android. It works in Russia.
No sign-up, no subscription, nothing to configure — connect in one click. Liska sends Russian addresses outside the tunnel so you do not have to switch the VPN off for your bank.
How it works
Coming soon to Google Play
- Genuinely free
- No sign-up
- Russian addresses skip the tunnel
The main difference
So you do not switch the VPN off for your bank
Most free VPNs push every last packet through the tunnel. Russian banks and government portals then see a foreign address and stop letting you in, so you end up switching the VPN off and on all day.
- Addresses recognised as Russian are sent outside the tunnel. Except the ones blocked in Russia — those do go through it.
- The rest of your traffic goes through our location.
- There is nothing to configure. We do not promise any particular service will work, though: a page can load from a foreign CDN, and banks run their own checks.
What Liska is
Five principles the first version is built on.
No sign-up
No email, no phone number, no password, no social login. Install it and press Connect.
Connect in one click
No protocols, ports or config files. Liska picks a location for you, or you pick one yourself in one click.
We do not look at what you open
We keep no log of the sites you visit, the DNS queries you make or your real address. What does leave your device is listed in the privacy policy, item by item.
Light
A small app with no extra screens. The only thing running in the background is the tunnel itself — it has no reason to wake the device for anything else.
Three steps
An install, one system permission, and one button.
- 1
Install it
One app from Google Play. There is nothing to set up: no servers, no keys, no config files.
- 2
Allow the VPN
Android asks for VPN permission once. That dialog belongs to Android, not to us — no VPN app can work without it.
- 3
Press Connect
Liska finds a location and connects. If the speed is not what you want, switch locations and connect again.
What the app will need
The ones you will actually see — in the system dialog and in Android settings. Below is what each of them is for.
- 01VPN consent
- Android itself asks for this once, with a system dialog. It is what allows a tunnel to be created — no VPN app works without it. It is a separate system consent, not a permission in the settings list.
- 02Internet and network state
- The first is for the connection itself, fetching the list of locations, showing ads and the technical statistics listed in the policy. The second is so the app notices you switching between Wi-Fi and mobile data, and reconnects.
- 03Running in the background
- The tunnel lives in a background service — otherwise Android unloads the app and the connection drops the moment you leave the screen.
- 04Notifications
- While the tunnel is up Android requires a persistent notification — that is a system rule. The reminder to reconnect once a session ends, on the other hand, is ours; you can turn it off in Android notification settings without losing the first one.
- 05Advertising ID
- The bundled ad library requests it, and it adds a few technical permissions of its own to the app. The full list is always visible on the app page in Google Play — here we only explain the ones that need explaining.
Why it is free
How a free VPN pays for itself is the right question to ask. Here is the answer.
Liska is paid for by ads inside the app. That is the only source of income; there is no other. Ads appear inside the app only — never over other apps and never in the system. They do not travel through the VPN tunnel and do not alter your traffic.
Ad networks receive your device advertising ID — the one you can reset or switch off in Android settings.
What we do not do
- We do not sell or hand anyone your browsing history — we do not keep it.
- We do not turn your phone into a proxy node or rent out your connection.
- We do not embed SDKs that make money from your traffic.
- We do not ask for your email, phone number, contacts, photos or location.
What we do not promise
What a VPN cannot do is worth knowing before you install one, not after.
- Not “military-grade encryption”
- No such certification exists — it is an advertising phrase. Liska uses ordinary modern protocols that still work on Russian networks. That is enough; it just sounds duller.
- Not anonymity
- A VPN encrypts what goes through the tunnel: your ISP sees that a connection exists, how much and when, but not its contents. It does not make you invisible — a site you are signed into still knows exactly who you are. And traffic that routing rules send outside the tunnel is not hidden at all.
- Not “zero data”
- An ad-supported app cannot collect zero data: ad networks receive the device advertising ID. So we write down what we do not record, instead of a tidy “we collect nothing”.
- Not a hundred countries
- We have a handful of locations. We would rather keep those alive than publish a long list where half the entries do not answer.
- Not an endless session
- Every few hours Liska drops the connection itself and sends a notification — tap it and the tunnel comes back up. Those returns to the app are what pays for the servers. There is no traffic cap, and you can reconnect straight away, as many times as you like.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. No subscription, no paid tier, no in-app purchases, and no trial that quietly ends. Ads pay for the servers.
Do I need an account?
No. No registration, no login, nothing tied to an email or phone number. Open the app and press Connect.
Will banks and government services still work?
Usually yes, and the split routing exists for exactly this: addresses recognised as Russian go outside the tunnel, so the service sees your normal local address. We cannot guarantee any particular bank or portal, though — some pages load from foreign CDNs, and services run checks of their own.
Do you keep logs?
We keep no log of which sites you open, which DNS queries you make, or what your real address is. We do not claim “zero data” either: the app reports anonymous statistics about whether a connection succeeded, and ad networks receive the device advertising ID. All of it is listed in the privacy policy.
Is there anything that will not work?
Yes, two things are not passed through at all — neither via the tunnel nor directly. The first is QUIC: some browsers, messengers and games use it, so they fall back to a slower channel. The second is torrents: they do not work through Liska. If something important will not open, the simplest fix is to turn the VPN off for a while.
Do you use my phone as a proxy?
No. The app does not accept or relay anyone else’s traffic through your device, does not sell your bandwidth, and contains no SDKs that do. Free VPNs have been caught doing this, so it is a fair question to ask.
Why does the connection drop on its own?
That is by design. A few hours after you connect, Liska drops the tunnel and sends a notification — tap it and the connection comes back. It is not a fault or a network error: the app is free, and those returns to the app are what keeps it running. The exact interval varies a little each time.
What happens if the connection drops?
Use the built-in Android control: Settings › Network & internet › VPN › Liska › turn on “Always-on VPN” and “Block connections without VPN”. Android then blocks traffic whenever the tunnel is down. It is a system feature rather than something we bolt on top.
Which devices are supported?
Android, through Google Play. There are no iOS, Windows or other builds.
Why a fox?
Liska means “little fox” in Russian. Foxes are quick, neat, and they do not draw attention. For an app like this that felt about right.
One app. One button.
No sign-up, no subscription, and no conditions in small print.