About

Why We Built CipherShift

We were tired of solving captchas for other people's sins.

Our Story

Like many of you, we used VPNs for years. And like many of you, we experienced the downsides: constant captchas, blocked bank accounts, streaming services that knew we were using a VPN and the nagging suspicion that "no logs" was more marketing than reality.

A recurring cause was shared infrastructure. When many users share an IP address, you can inherit their collective reputation. Someone on your server sent spam last week? That's your problem now. A bot scraped a website from your IP yesterday? Enjoy your captcha.

We thought: what if every user had their own dedicated server? What if the persistent peer identity was a control you could reset? What if we built a VPN for people who actually understand how VPNs work?

CipherShift is that VPN.

Our Principles

Dedicated, Not Shared

Your server is yours alone. No sharing IPs with strangers, no inheriting their bad reputation. Fewer banking flags, fewer streaming blocks, fewer captchas.

3 Modes, One App

Fast mode for everyday use, Shadowsocks on restrictive networks and VLESS+REALITY for Pro. The app can retry with an obfuscated transport after a real connection failure.

Keys You Can Replace

WireGuard rotates short-lived session keys automatically. CipherShift also lets you replace the persistent peer identity associated with your private server and removes the previous keys from active configuration.

Data-Minimising by Design

Sensitive VPN configuration is kept in temporary memory. The data plane is configured not to record browsing destinations, DNS requests or traffic contents. Our privacy policy lists the account and operational data we retain.

Simple By Default

One tap to connect. The app handles all the technical settings automatically. Power when you need it, simplicity when you don't.

Sustainable Business

Self-funded. No VC pressure. No ads. You pay for the service, we provide the service. That's the entire business model.

Independence

CipherShift is self-funded. No venture capital, no investors demanding user growth at any cost, no pressure to monetize your data.

Our business model is simple: you pay for the service, we provide the service. That's it. No tracking, no advertising, no selling your browsing habits to data brokers.