A Singapore utility maker quietly shipping a working free VPN.
SpeedTop VPN is published by SOON BODYWERKZ AUTO PTE. LTD., a Singapore-registered company, with the official product website hosted at speedtop.io ↗. The app launched under the promise of a small, unobtrusive tunnel that keeps working on weak signal — not a full feature-matrix incumbent, and not a stealth data broker.
The team's focus has been on routing rather than surface features. That shows in the client: no built-in browser, no shopping cart, no ad-network mining privacy scanner. Just a tunnel, a country list, one power button. The Windows version added Split Tunneling and Smart Route as the two power features that separate a daily driver from a demo.
Where SpeedTop is still catching up — and we say this openly because SEO without honesty is just noise — is independent audit history. Big incumbent VPNs publish annual third-party audits of their no-log claims. SpeedTop's policy is written, the app permissions are clean, but the audit trail is not public yet. That is a legitimate reason to keep a paid, audited VPN in parallel if you have a threat model where that matters.
A recent Windows update added an animated pre-connect screen (bike → car → airplane) that a chunk of the user base has publicly asked to be removed or made skippable. It is the kind of small UX misfire that tells you the team is iterating fast — and that user feedback lands with them, because two of the last three release notes are literally about that.