GoLogin Review

GoLogin is a piece of anti detect software primarily used for multi-accounting. It shares many similarities with virtual private networks and proxies in terms of masking your digital identity online. This tool, however, is more suitable for tasks done in bulk.

In a nutshell, it allows you to create multiple separate accounts for various kinds of sites.

Different breeds of digital marketers can find value in GoLogin. If you manage affiliate programs or juggle promotional campaigns, getting banned could flush your efforts down the drain. The need to change your browser parameters is just as important when scraping the Web.

GoLogin can help you spend your physical and virtual resources more efficiently so that you can accomplish more with less.

On Trustpilot, this software has received an average rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars from 10 GoLogin reviews.

Is this a fair assessment?

Keep reading to know what I think of GoLogin.

GoLogin Features

The New York-based company behind it has only been founded in 2019. So, GoLogin is still a work in progress.

But here’s what it can already do:

Fingerprints Database

Using GoLogin’s technology, you can customize the parameters of your digital fingerprint. It represents the collection of data sites monitor in order to identify you via your browser.

With the ability to spoof 50+ connection characteristics, you can create an entirely unique browser profile and hide your identity.

Here are the parameters you can customize with GoLogin at a glance:

• Operating Systems
  

• • Windows
  • macOS
  • macOS M1
  • Linux
  • Android
    

• Connection Types
  
  • Without proxy
  • Free proxy (CA, DE, IN, UK, and US)
  • Tor Network (DE, EU, FR, UK, and US)
  • HTTP proxy
  • SOCKS 4 proxy
  • SOCKS 5 proxy
    
• Timezone
  
  • Based on external IP
  • Based on personal preference
    
• WebRTC
  
  • Altered
  • Disabled
  • Real
    
• Geolocation
  
  • Prompt
  • Allow
  • Block
    
• Advanced
  
  • Navigator
  • Fonts
  • Mask media devices
  • Hardware
  • Storage options
  • Browser plugins
  • Other
    
• Cookies
  • Import cookies

Free Proxies

As mentioned, you can access free GoLogin proxy servers to obtain IP (internet protocol) addresses from five countries. So, using a premium third-party proxy vendor is only optional, not necessary.

New/Refresh Fingerprint

For the uninitiated, most of the browser parameters seem mumbo jumbo. But you won’t have to worry about modifying each and every one of them.

When creating a new profile, you can tell GoLogin to produce a unique fingerprint with the touch of a button. Every profile saves its digital fingerprint and cookies to avoid the need for re-authorization.

Apart from convenience, letting this tool do the heavy lifting helps guarantee the trustworthiness of the created digital identity. Mixing parameters with no rhyme or reason can result in a strange browser profile that may arouse suspicion.

Furthermore, you can replace the fingerprint of an existing profile with a new one with one click. If you take this direction, you can immediately turn a compromised fingerprint into a fresh identity.

So in theory, you can generate an unlimited number of identities. At the time of writing this GoLogin review, this tool has helped over 216,000 users create at least 4.3 million ones.

Browser Profiles

There’s a limit to the number of browser profiles you can keep on GoLogin, ranging from 1 to 8,000.

Securely stored in the cloud, these profiles don’t overlap since none of them share an identical fingerprint. As a result, sites are unlikely to block your accounts.

Apps

Currently, GoLogin is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. The mobile app is in beta stage, but it’s still up for early access on Google Play.

Generally, GoLogin is compatible with the following OSes:

• Windows 7 or later (64-bit systems only) and Server 2012 and 2016
• macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) to 10.14 (Mojave)
• Linux Ubuntu 18.04
• Most of Linux family
  

Likewise, GoLogin has a cloud version. This means you can sign in to your account using any regular browser on any device without downloading the corresponding app.

If you have an iPhone, you may not have to wait for the rollout of GoLogin for iOS. Just use your browser.

What’s more, you can use GoLogin on countless devices. You can tailor your subscription for your unique business needs. More on plan customization later.

Orbita

Rolled out in December 2019, Orbita is GoLogin’s native virtual browser.

The company chose to not use any of the leading browsers out there. Instead, it created its own using the Chromium engine for maximum anonymity.

Orbita is new but looks familiar. Its interface feels like Google Chrome, the most used browser around, by design. If you’re a Chrome user, you won’t have to unlearn anything and surf the Web with Orbita like normal.

One of the defining features of this anti detect browser - the WebGL (Web Graphics Library) fingerprint control technology. It can render 2D and 3D graphics within a browser without using any plugins.

Browser Fingerprint Checker

When GoLogin launches Orbita through Puppeteer, it automatically does a browser fingerprinting test. Basically, it judges the trustworthiness of your digital identity through the following factors:

• Browser
• Location
• IP address
• Hardware
• Software
  

The company doesn’t offer recommendations, though. It merely flags the areas that need more work in order to reduce your profile’s chances of getting blocked. GoLogin issues warnings based on its databases of real-world browser settings.

The usual problem is a mismatch between your real OS and the one your GoLogin browser profile tries to emulate. Although it may be needed to achieve your objective, it may hurt the integrity of your digital identity.

More often than not, you’ll be better off leaving the “Advanced” section of a profile untouched. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you might unwittingly undermine the effectiveness of your browser fingerprint masking.

AES Encryption

GoLogin uses AES to encrypt cookies and passwords on its virtual browser online. This cipher is resistant to brute-force attacks. Since even the fastest computer today can’t crack it, it’s the current gold standard of encryption.

Simultaneous Cloud Launches

Paying GoLogin users can run as many as 40 browser profiles in the cloud at the same time.

In short, you should be able to launch multiple profiles using different devices without downloading any apps.

Profile Sharing

If you buy a premium subscription, you’ll be able to share browser profiles with your peers. You can assign roles to viewers, editors, or managers of individual profiles.

Team Members

Team members can run any of your existing GoLogin browser profiles and create new ones. But they can do more than managing digital identities.

You grant them full access to your account. Each one would be able to see your payment history and make big changes like upgrading your plan.

There’s no way to control the permissions for team members, however, so they’ll be virtually as powerful as you are. Keep this in mind before adding anyone.

Active Sessions

With GoLogin, all sessions are in sync. So, you can view or terminate any of them regardless of the device you’re using.

When a session ends, GoLogin should log the account out instantly.

During my tests, I opened a secondary free account. This way, I was able to add myself as a team member to my trial account (the main one).

As a result, I was managing two active accounts at the same time. I was the main account holder in one and the team member in the other. 

As the manager of the main account, I was able to terminate my session in the free account.

GoLogin didn't log me out, however. So as a member, I could still navigate like nothing happened.

As a member, I was able to end the session linked to the main account. As intended, GoLogin logged me out as the main account holder.

I doubt that GoLogin was supposed to work this way, so it must be a bug. Allowing members to revoke the actual account holder’s active session and simultaneously being immune to termination makes no sense.

Master Password

It refers to the password you use to sign in to your account and to secure your session data like cookies and tabs.

If you forget it, you can recover it to unlock your account. But you won’t be able to regain access to the session information tied to your account.

To elaborate - GoLogin could only store its derivative on its server. Due to the company’s use of Argon2, it can’t recreate your original master password for data safety.

For this reason, you should do everything to remember it. Even GoLogin won’t be able to help you retrieve your session data if you lose it.

Vault

Two out of the three company products I tested came with Vault. Activated by default, you can use this GoLogin extension to keep your data in one place.

Vault is nowhere near the level of the best password managers on the market. And it’s a secondary option to Orbita’s built-in, Chrome-like password management tool.

Integration

GoLogin is open to third-party integrations. Its API (application programming interface) documentation is readily available for download. Any developer can connect to it and automate GoLogin-related tasks using self-written bots.

There’s no definitive list of tools that can already work with this solution. But I found setup guides for the following GoLogin proxy and automation integrations with third parties:

• Bright Data (formerly Luminati)
• GeoSurf
• NetNut
• Oxylabs
• Selenium
  

Customer Support

The GoLogin team can answer general product questions and offer assistance to resolve basic tech issues night and day.

The company offers live chat support across all of its apps around the clock. This means you don’t have to be on its site to start a conversation with its agents.

If you’re in a hurry and can’t speak with someone in real-time, you can simply email your concerns.

GoLogin has social media accounts and uses its YouTube channel to post helpful video tutorials.

Other than its blog, it also has a decent knowledge base, which organizes articles by bite-sized articles by topics. Its collections of reads include Troubleshooting and FAQ.

Furthermore, the company claimed its Trustpilot profile in July 2021. This move has enabled its team to directly respond to GoLogin reviews on the platform.

Issues With Live Chat Agents

I appreciated GoLogin’s live chat support. But I was disappointed that its reps provided me different answers to the same questions. It happened not once, but twice.

The first instance was when I asked about the master password. One agent told me that it’s randomly generated upon account creation and concerns developers only. The other representative explained that it’s the account password.

I was inclined to believe the second support staff was correct. The first one admitted that the topic was beyond his competence.

The other time I got conflicting explanations was when I sought technical assistance regarding Orbita. GoLogin’s native virtual browser online didn’t come up when I was using the web-based app.

The first agent told me to use the desktop client instead, for Orbita wouldn’t work while using the web-based app. I found it odd because it would defeat the purpose of having a cloud GoLogin version to begin with.

This virtual browser didn’t load when I was using the Android app either. A different agent advised me to switch to the web-based app, for this client was still in beta.

Then, I brought up what the other rep told me about Orbita’s issue. This one reported the issue to the developers, for it’s supposed to work together with its web-based app.

In my experience, the three GoLogin live chat agents I talked with weren’t on the same page.

Better employee training is in order. Having support agents with questionable product knowledge on the front lines puts GoLogin in a bad light.

Interface and Ease of Use

GoLogin’s interface was clean and consistent across the three products I tested.

All of them were also easy to navigate. They display only the most important functions and tuck the other options away in the icons.

The GoLogin browser download procedure is straightforward. On Windows, the installer automatically gets downloaded. But you have to install Orbita separately on Android.

Registration couldn’t get any simpler too. You only need to provide an email address and a password to create an account. After confirming your credentials, you’re good to go.

The company accepts disposable email addresses. So, if you use Blur to mask your personal data as I do, you won’t get rejected on GoLogin.

Doesn’t matter if you haven’t used any anti detect software before. Chances are that you’ll get a handle on how GoLogin works in no time. That’s assuming that you’ll entrust most of browser fingerprinting masking on the app.

On Orbita, the address bar shows the name of the profile.

This should keep you from getting confused when you have multiple windows up.

When it comes to performance, GoLogin has its issues. As I said, Orbita wouldn’t load when running a profile through a web-based app. The Android app has this problem too.

The GoLogin extension was faulty too. I got an error message when I tried to store some login details on Vault.

Moreover, GoLogin’s profile trustworthiness checker was inconsistent. When I checked how reliable one of the browser fingerprints I created was, I saw different results on Quick Settings and on Orbita.

Have a look at the screenshots:

GoLogin Pricing

GoLogin is available in four premium subscriptions: Professional, Business, Enterprise, and Custom.

For the most part, all plans share the same features. Professional is an exception - it doesn’t let you add team members.

Also, most of the Custom plan’s components are fixed. The only thing customizable about it is the number of browser profiles you can have all at once.

The GoLogin pricing options and features of these premium plans are as follows:

The license of every said subscription comes with a free GoLogin trial for seven days. You’re free to switch plans mid-trial if you wish.

To buy, you can pay with a card through Stripe, with PayPal, and with a cryptocurrency through Coinbase Commerce.

The company accepts bitcoin and at least six altcoins, including:

• ETH
• BCH
• USDC
• DOGE
  

GoLogin has no money-back guarantee. But it approves refund requests on a case-by-case basis.

All GoLogin premium plans auto-renew.

GoLogin Forever Free

If you don’t want to purchase a GoLogin subscription, you can still keep it. Just choose the Forever Free plan to continue using the software. You can still access all features, except for Profile Sharing and Team Members. And you’ll have to contend with one browser profile only.

The Forever Free plan is really intended for team members. If you need up to 20 seats for other users to be account co-managers, you won’t have to buy them individual subscriptions. 

Verdict

For everything I like about GoLogin, there’s something that equally frustrates me.

I love the look and feel of the anti detect browser and native apps. But their performance issues negatively impacted my experience with them.

I hate waiting as much as the next person. So, the company’s round-the-clock live chat support was a major plus.

The inconsistency of some of the answers I received from its reps, however, cast doubt on the entire support team.

Most people would love the software’s free version and trials. But iPhone users would be less thrilled about it until the GoLogin iOS version becomes available.

At the moment, GoLogin isn’t fully ready for prime time yet.

But on the bright side, the company is highly approachable and incredibly responsive. And it seems to listen to feedback closely.

So, once polished, the app would become a strong competitor.