Reviews

Every service we have reviewed

Insurance, banking, payroll, eSIMs and more, each assessed for people who live and work abroad. Every review states the downsides, and the date we last checked the terms.

  • Airalo

    From $19.50 / 5GB, 30 days

    The biggest, the broadest and the one to buy when you are going somewhere the others have barely heard of: over two hundred places,…

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  • Cigna Global

    This is full international private medical insurance, not travel cover, built in modules: you choose a core inpatient tier and add outpatient, dental, vision…

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  • ExpressVPN

    From $99.95 / a year after the first term

    The most thoroughly checked VPN there is: audits published continuously since 2018 by five separate firms, covering the protocol, the apps, the router, the…

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  • Genki

    From €52 / month

    Genki splits the problem in two rather than selling one product to everybody. Traveler is monthly travel health cover, capped at twelve months in…

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  • Holafly

    From $73.90 / unlimited, 30 days

    The most heavily advertised eSIM and the one we would steer most of this audience away from. Sharing to a laptop is capped at…

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  • IMG

    IMG is an old underwriter rather than a nomad brand, and its appeal is that you can tune the policy rather than take what…

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  • N26

    From €0 / a month on Standard

    The only one here that is a bank in the old sense, with a full German licence and deposits insured to €100,000 by a…

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  • Nomad

    From $17.50 / 5GB, 30 days

    The cheapest of the three comparable plans, and the only one selling a proper subscription: three dollars a month keeps a gigabyte of European…

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  • NordVPN

    From $139.08 / a year after the first term

    The fastest here, and the one to buy if a bank or an employer needs to see the same IP address every time: a…

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  • Payoneer

    From $29.95 / a year unless $6,000 comes in

    The one that will have you when nothing else will. It works from more than 150 countries without requiring you to live in any…

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  • Proton VPN

    From $83.88 / a year

    The all-rounder, and about fifty dollars a year cheaper than NordVPN once the first-term discounts wear off. Swiss, audited for no logs five years…

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