Psylo: Private Browser & Proxy 17+

Solid App

The silo concept plus a proxy is a unique concept and works well. Will use for a year and watch pricing and features before renewing. Minor critiques: text size isn’t adjustable and can be hard to read on some social sites. Also 50gb of data per month goes quickly if consuming video content and should be 200gb minimum as most VPNs don’t have limits for similar price. Keep up the good work!

Developer Response ,

Hello! Really appreciate your feedback and review. We’ll be sure to include a way to adjust the text size in an update in the near feature. As for the 50 GB monthly bandwidth cap, we’re currently looking into increasing that significantly for all our existing users at no additional cost.

Great idea but expensive

The Psylo concept is really brilliant. However, several points prevent me from subscribing.

The price of $10 per month remains psychologically a barrier for me and probably for many other users. An entry price of $3-4 would allow wider adoption. Privacy should be a human right and not depend on income. I understand the team needs to make a living but $10 per month is too much for me. The concept deserves to be accessible to as many people as possible.

The ergonomics are average: impossible to easily create a widget to access your silos. You have to manually copy the link then create a shortcut by hand. For a power user it's fine but it lacks practicality for the average person. The UI/UX is also improvable.

It would be great to be able to use Psylo as a regular web browser without a subscription. With its anti-fingerprinting advances, it would already be the best privacy-oriented iOS browser, even without the proxy network.

One question bothers me: when Psylo is set as the default browser, do webviews from third-party apps also use the silo system? This would be important to clarify.

For now, I won't subscribe to the service due to the price, but I'll closely monitor the project's evolution as the team clearly has the skills to revolutionize private browsing on iOS.

Developer Response ,

Hello, we appreciate taking the time to try out Psylo. Sorry to hear that you decided not to subscribe for the time being. We’re still in the early days of Psylo and we’ll continue to improve it. Hopefully we can get to the point where we can lower the price for everyone as we grow.

To answer your question about setting it as the default browser: Psylo cannot affect the WebViews in third-party apps, so they wouldn’t get the anti-fingerprinting protections of Psylo. This is why we recommend switching from native apps (such as X, Instagram, etc.) to their web-based versions in Psylo and enjoy all the privacy protections it offers.

We hope we win you back as a customer in the near future. Feel free to reach out anytime on X, Mastodon, or Bluesky.

Great, unique privacy app

I was excited when Mysk announced this app, and even more excited to beta test it, then use it when it emerged into GA. It’s a great augment to other privacy technologies and the care in development is obvious from the start. Very very worth it in my opinion as a technologist.