Nora means light. That’s the whole idea.
Nora is a small independent team building the kind of privacy tool we ourselves wanted to keep on. Not a subscription bundle. Not a security "score." A tool that behaves like a good utility — you install it, forget it, and it does its job.
The name is the shortened form of an old northern name meaning light. We liked the metaphor: a quiet source of illumination that stays in the background rather than demanding attention. The aurora in the logo, and the single soft curve in this site, come from the same idea.
To be transparent: Nora has not yet published an independent no-logs audit. It is on the roadmap and we’ll link it here when it lands. Our data-handling stance is written in plain English in the privacy policy — no dark patterns, no marketing gloss.
We’d also rather earn your trust the slow way than claim it with a headline. Which is why this page acknowledges the categories in the comparison table where NordVPN, ExpressVPN and Proton still have the edge — server footprint, cross-platform breadth, published audits. Nora will catch up in some of them, deliberately not in others.