HackerTracker vs Twingate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HackerTracker
Organize your attendance at information security conferences. Save and view your preferred talks and events from multiple conferences, including DEF CON and BSides, with an on-device schedule that updates automatically.
- On-device schedule management
- Save preferred talks and events
- Supports multiple conferences
- Automatic schedule updates
- View talks, contests, and events
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Plan your visit to any number of information security conferences. HackerTracker features an on-device schedule for viewing and saving your preferred talks and events from different events, including DEF CON, local BSides events, OWASP global conferences, and others. The schedule for talks, contests, and events are included and HackerTracker updates automatically for other conferences as data becomes available.
Twingate
Provides secure, encrypted, least-privileged access to cloud or on-premise applications. It offers a more secure alternative to VPNs, allowing remote access without exposing public IPs and enabling 2FA/MFA with no application changes.
- Encrypted, least-privileged access
- Access any cloud or on-premise resource
- More secure than VPN
- Remote access without public IPs
- Enable 2FA/MFA with zero changes
- Audited access to private resources
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Twingate is the most secure way to provide encrypted, least privileged access to any cloud (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform) or on-premise application or resource. Twingate allows you to secure all access regardless of device platform or network. Far more secure than VPN, and using either your company’s identity provider or public identity authorities for authentication, Twingate allows you to remotely access any private application without exposing any public IPs. Twingate’s network performance is exceptional, access to private resources is audited, and you can enable 2FA/MFA on any resource with zero application changes required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HackerTracker at fortnightly against Twingate's every 5 weeks. HackerTracker also leads on review sentiment (58% vs 44%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Twingate holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 34 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of HackerTracker's written reviews are positive against 44% of Twingate's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HackerTracker ships an update fortnightly, Twingate every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HackerTracker | Twingate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (47 ratings) | 4.4 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.6% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seth Law | Twingate Inc. |
Customer experience
HackerTracker
Twingate
In-app purchases
HackerTracker
No in-app purchases
Twingate
No in-app purchases
