Comparison

Data Guard by SmarTone vs Am I Secure? Forensic Scan

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

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About

Data Guard by SmarTone

This app offers comprehensive protection for your phone, web browsing, Wi-Fi connections, SMS messages, and applications. It uses machine learning to detect threats and provides instant alerts for suspicious links and risky Wi-Fi networks, ensuring your device is secure.

Highlights
  • All-round phone protection
  • Web and Wi-Fi security
  • SMS and App protection
  • Instant suspicious link alerts
  • Risky Wi-Fi network alerts
  • Machine-learning threat detection
  • Round-the-clock auto protection
Features
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Use Your Device with Greater Peace of Mind • All-round phone, web, Wi-Fi, SMS and App protection • Instant alerts when clicking on suspicious links and when connecting to risky Wi-Fi networks • Machine-learning powered detection of known and unknown threats • Quick, easy download and activation • Round-the-clock auto mobile protection

About

Am I Secure? Forensic Scan

This app provides advanced security scanning to detect malware, spyware, and viruses. It goes beyond basic checks with deep forensic analysis and AI-driven threat detection, offering manual review by cybersecurity experts for confirmed threats.

Highlights
  • Advanced security scanning
  • Detects malware, spyware, and viruses
  • Deep forensic analysis
  • AI-driven threat detection
  • Manual review by experts
  • Anomaly-based analysis
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Am I Secure? performs forensic analysis of your iPhone or iPad to find signs of compromise. If you are a journalist, activist, executive, lawyer, government official or anyone with reason to think you may be of interest to a sophisticated adversary, this app is built for you. The same applies if you hold digital assets in self-custody. The device holding your keys is the target, and that device is what Am I Secure? examines. WHAT A COMPROMISED DEVICE MEANS Your whole life is on your phone. Private messages, email, photos, contacts, financial information. If you can read it, so can someone who has compromised the device. Encryption protects your messages in transit; it does not protect anything once the device itself is under someone else's control. An attacker in that position can read your messages before they are encrypted and after they are decrypted, see your location, take your stored credentials, and reach any account you are signed in to. They can listen through the microphone to conversations in the room, record through the camera, and follow your movements. There is generally no way to tell from using the device. WHY THIS REQUIRES A DIFFERENT APPROACH iOS is among the most secure consumer platforms available. iOS does not let any app, including security apps, look outside its own container or "sandbox". No security app on your device can inspect the processes, the filesystem, or the behavior of the rest of the system. That is a deliberate security property of the platform, and it is why an app running on your phone can only report on your settings, not on what is actually running. Am I Secure? works differently. You generate a system diagnostic "sysdiagnose" file using the tool built into iOS. That file is produced by the operating system itself, not by us, and it contains a detailed record of processes, logs, and system state. You share that file with the app, which uploads it to our servers. We analyze it and report what we find. The diagnostic file is end-to-end encrypted on your device before it is uploaded and stays encrypted until it reaches hardware we own and operate in our own facilities in Canada and the European Union (EU). It is not decrypted or accessible by any third party, including intermediary data center and network operators. Once analysis is complete the file is deleted. A HUMAN REVIEWS ANYTHING UNUSUAL Where our automated analysis flags something, our team examines the results by hand before anything is reported to you. The same automated analysis pipeline is used by our government clients via our on-premises Private Protection suite. WE LOOK FOR ANOMALIES, NOT JUST KNOWN INDICATORS Most detection tools match against published indicators of compromise. The moment those indicators become public, the operators behind commercial surveillance tools change their software to avoid them, and signature matching stops working against the new version. We compare your device against a baseline of expected iOS behavior instead. That can surface anomalies that do not match public indicators. MEDIA COVERAGE Reviewed by Forbes cybersecurity contributor Davey Winder in December 2024, who wrote he was "very impressed with the capabilities of this app." WHAT ELSE THE APP CHECKS, FOR EVERYONE • Whether your iOS version is current, overall and for your specific device • Lockdown Mode status • Lock screen, passcode, and biometric configuration • iCloud Private Relay and VPN status • Whether connections to well-known sites are being intercepted or inspected • Third-party keyboards installed on the device • Device integrity • Your processor's security features, network details, and diagnostic information SUBSCRIPTION The Advanced Security Scan requires a subscription, available as an in-app purchase (monthly or annual). For the Government & Enterprise Edition, search for Am I Secure? Endpoint Security here on the App Store. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Data Guard by SmarTone4 screens
Am I Secure? Forensic Scan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Am I Secure? Forensic Scan at 82% against Data Guard by SmarTone's 38%. Am I Secure? Forensic Scan also leads on ratings volume (81 vs 1). Data Guard by SmarTone's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, 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. Am I Secure? Forensic Scan sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Data Guard by SmarTone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Data Guard by SmarTone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Am I Secure? Forensic Scan has 81 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Data Guard by SmarTone's written reviews are positive against 82% of Am I Secure? Forensic Scan's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Data Guard by SmarTone ships an update every 5 weeks, Am I Secure? Forensic Scan monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Data Guard by SmarTone versus Am I Secure? Forensic Scan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterData Guard by SmarToneAm I Secure? Forensic Scan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (81 ratings)
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews81.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings181 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperConnect APAC Company LimitedNumbers Station Inc

Customer experience

Data Guard by SmarTone

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative62.5%

Am I Secure? Forensic Scan

All ratings80 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.3%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive81.6%
Neutral5.3%
Negative13.2%

In-app purchases

None

Data Guard by SmarTone

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Am I Secure? Forensic Scan

Subscriptions4
  • Advanced Threat Detection$9.991 Month
  • Advanced Threat Detection$24.993 Months
  • Advanced Threat Detection$34.996 Months
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  • Advanced Threat Detection$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Data Guard by SmarTone free?
Data Guard by SmarTone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Am I Secure? Forensic Scan free?
Am I Secure? Forensic Scan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Data Guard by SmarTone or Am I Secure? Forensic Scan?
Data Guard by SmarTone is rated higher. Data Guard by SmarTone averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Am I Secure? Forensic Scan averages 4.7 from 81 ratings.
Do Data Guard by SmarTone or Am I Secure? Forensic Scan have ads?
Neither Data Guard by SmarTone nor Am I Secure? Forensic Scan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Data Guard by SmarTone or Am I Secure? Forensic Scan?
Data Guard by SmarTone ships an update every 5 weeks, and Am I Secure? Forensic Scan monthly. Most recently, Data Guard by SmarTone was updated on October 5, 2026 and Am I Secure? Forensic Scan on October 21, 2026.

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