My favorite app, desktop AND mobile, is ProtonVPN, closely followed by Protonmail.

ProtonVPN is brought to you by the same great minds who brought us Protonmail, which is exceptional highly secure encrypted email hosted in Switzerland, and thus privy to Switzerland's strict privacy laws.

Protonmail was started right after Edward Snowden made his revelations about NSA spying. The developers, including data engineers from CERN and MIT, believed that everyone deserves secure, unhackable email, away from the prying eyes of governments or anyone else, and set out to create it.

Their model was similar to StartPage.com, the encrypted private search engine, which does not save searches or collect any information on its users. That way, if a government or other entity demands that StartPage hand over their collected user data, there is literally nothing to hand over.

Similarly, Protonmail.com collects no user data, and like Steemit, cannot recover your password if you lose it, so backing it up AND providing them with a recovery email address are great ideas.

The free account comes with 500MB storage space, which you can upgrade in a couple of different levels, depending on your needs. I've been using their email for the past couple of years and LOVE it. I also upgraded to a paid account to help support the project, which increased the storage for that account to 5GB.

There is a free version of ProtonVPN, as well a couple of paid tiers, with the paid version being MUCH faster. Mine is paid, which is bundled with my paid email, so for fast VPN with five protected devices, and an email account with 5 GB of storage, I'm paying a total of $12 per month. In Europe is would be 12 Euros.

Pretty cheap for such great protection, and in my experience, both have worked pretty flawlessly. The only exception was when I locked myself out of one of my free email accounts, when I wrote down the wrong password, but that was on me, not them.

They don't have affiliate accounts, so I gain nothing whether anyone gets it or not, but I am a long time privacy advocate, really believe in what they are doing, and recommend the service highly.

They've even got great email support should you ever need it, unlike a lot of tech companies. Not surprisingly, support is much faster with paid accounts, but it's not bad even for free accounts, typically 48 hours or less.

That's lightning fast compared with Coinbase or Binance.