Comparison

Cryptobot vs Tacendum

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cryptobot

Features
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Cryptobot is a mobile messaging app that puts security and privacy first. With true password protected encryption, you can rest assured that only you and the intended recipient can read your messages. All messages are encrypted, private and 100% yours. All encryption happens on your device, and asymmetric cryptography ensures that only the intended receiver can read your messages. Encrypt and secure your messages with password and one of the most secured encryption algorithm. Email, SMS, Tweet or post on Facebook secret messages between friends using this simple application that encrypts a given text with passcode, and just as easily decrypts a given text with the same key. Cryptobot is a zero-knowledge messaging app. This means we cannot read, decrypt or share your messages. Like Cryptobot on Facebook: http://goo.gl/gvnBrO

About

Tacendum

This app offers end-to-end encrypted private messaging, rooms, and calls without requiring any personal sign-up information. It prioritizes user privacy with features like disappearing messages and screenshot notifications.

Highlights
  • End-to-end encrypted chats, rooms, and calls
  • No sign-up required (phone number, email, username, password)
  • Disappearing messages with customizable timers
  • Screenshot disclosure and screen recording protection
  • App lock with decoy option
  • Optional findability via ID sharing or linked credentials
Features
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Some conversations are just between the people in them. Tacendum is end-to-end encrypted messaging, rooms and calls for iPhone. There is no sign-up: no phone number, no email, no username, no password required. A key created on your phone the first time the app opens is the account. Nobody can look you up unless you choose it — there is no directory and no search. You hand your ID to someone yourself, normally by scanning a code in person; or link an email or a username in Settings, switch on findability, and someone who already knows it can find you. Each is optional and revocable, and none becomes a login. WHAT IT DOES — One-to-one chats, encrypted end to end with the Signal protocol (libsignal). Edit a message, delete it for everyone, reply, react, mention someone by name. Send photos, files, voice notes, or a place you have chosen to share. — Rooms: one conversation for up to twelve people. Only the person who made a room can add or remove anyone, and only they can hand a new arrival the history from before — deliberately, and the room is told when they do. Every room message is encrypted separately for every member; the room's name and everything said in it are hidden from us. — Calls: one-to-one voice and video, end-to-end encrypted, with the set-up riding inside the same encrypted envelope as a message. A room can hold a voice call of up to six people. The first call with someone new is relayed by default, so a stranger does not learn your IP address; one switch keeps every call that way. — Disappearing messages, with a timer you choose per conversation. — Screenshots are disclosed, always. iPhones do not let any app block a screenshot, so instead of pretending, Tacendum tells: take one inside a conversation and the other person is told, in that conversation. No setting turns that off. While the screen is being recorded, mirrored or AirPlayed, conversations are hidden until it stops. — Safety numbers. Every pair of people has one number, and both see the same one. If someone's key changes, Tacendum stops and says so before you send anything else. — App lock: a passcode on top of the phone's own, with an auto-lock delay. One code, two doors — your code opens your conversations, and the same code entered backwards opens a decoy instead: invented people, unreadable messages, while the real ones stay sealed. There is no second secret to remember or to be made to give up. — Blocking and reporting. Blocking is yours alone and invisible to the blocked. Reporting sends us only what you explicitly select, and the report screen says exactly what leaves your phone. WHAT ISN'T THERE No feed. No directory. No ads, no trackers. The app never asks for your contacts — there is no address-book upload. No archive: your history lives on your phone and nowhere else, and undelivered ciphertext clears from our servers within thirty days. And no recovery of messages or keys, by design: the key never leaves your phone, so if you lose the phone, its history is gone. A linked email can win back only which devices are yours and whether you can be found — never a message. We cannot restore the rest — that is the point. WHAT ENCRYPTION DOESN'T COVER Encryption hides what you said, not that you said it. Who each room message goes to is visible to us, and the privacy policy at tacendum.com/privacy says exactly what our servers can still see. We would rather tell you than have you assume. SOURCE Tacendum is free software under the AGPL-3.0 license. The complete Corresponding Source for this exact build is published at github.com/MiranaTechs/Tacendum, tag v1.0-b24. Tacendum requires iOS 15.1 or later. Terms: tacendum.com/terms. Privacy: tacendum.com/privacy. Support: tacendum.com/support or hello@tacendum.com.

Screenshots

Cryptobot4 screens
Tacendum4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tacendum at none against Cryptobot's 1. Tacendum also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 32 months). Cryptobot's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cryptobot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tacendum asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cryptobot ships an update every 32 months, Tacendum monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Cryptobot versus Tacendum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCryptobotTacendum
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 32 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB62 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAppie s.r.oMirana Technologies Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cryptobot

One-time1
  • Cryptobot - Decryption$0.99
None

Tacendum

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cryptobot free?
Cryptobot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tacendum free?
Tacendum is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cryptobot or Tacendum have ads?
Neither Cryptobot nor Tacendum shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cryptobot or Tacendum?
Cryptobot ships an update every 32 months, and Tacendum monthly. Most recently, Cryptobot was updated on October 12, 2026 and Tacendum on October 8, 2026.

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