Apple vs Mullvad VPN
Based on our analysis, Mullvad VPN is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Apple | Mullvad VPN |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | B+ · 78/100 | A · 93/100 |
| What they collect | Mixed (72) | Positive (95) |
| Who they share it with | Positive (82) | Positive (92) |
| What you can do | Positive (80) | Positive (85) |
| What they promise | Positive (82) | Positive (90) |
Apple collects significantly less data than other big tech companies and explicitly commits — using both Nevada and California legal definitions — to never selling or sharing your data for advertising. Their own ad platform doesn't use data brokers or cross-app tracking. Private personal data isn't used to train Apple's AI models. The main caveats are health, fitness, and financial data collection, government ID in some cases, and personalised ads that exist but are easy to turn off.
View full analysis →Mullvad collects almost nothing — no account names, no activity logs, no IP retention — and the policy is short because there's genuinely very little to say; what little data does get processed (payments, support emails) has hard, specific deletion windows and never leaves the EU.
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