Data Guard by SmarTone vs HIBIZO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
HIBIZO
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HIBIZO is a quiet, private place to keep thoughts, memories, and feelings — built for people who want their journal to stay theirs. Every entry, photo, and tag is encrypted on your device with AES-256 before it ever reaches storage. If you turn on iCloud sync, your other devices receive the same encrypted bytes — Apple's servers never see your words. · A 12-word recovery passphrase unlocks your vault on a new device. HIBIZO never sees it, never stores it in plain text, and cannot recover it for you. · Face ID or Touch ID guards the vault on every open. · Photos, mood, location, and calendar context are all optional. Pick what fits, skip what doesn't. · The Sanctuary Garden quietly grows alongside you — 31 watercolor badges, butterflies and fireflies that drift past on the right days, a tree that flourishes as the journal does. · Three onboarding paths: brand-new vault, recover from iCloud, or import an encrypted archive file. Whatever your starting point, your data stays encrypted under your control. · Free across the lifetime of the app: every text feature, photo capture, location and calendar integration, the full Sanctuary Garden, encrypted iCloud sync, encrypted archive export, four languages (English, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文). · HIBIZO Pro is a one-time, lifetime unlock. It adds: unlimited entries (free tier supports up to 250), ambient garden creatures (butterflies by day, fireflies and will-o-wisps by night), an alternate pro app icon, the Flourishing tree stage, and watercolor moods inside PDF exports. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. There is nothing in HIBIZO that calls home about you, because we built it to be private from the inside out. Now with a custom value tag per journal, and [PRO] Spreadsheet export.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Data Guard by SmarTone at none against HIBIZO's 1. Data Guard by SmarTone also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). HIBIZO's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. HIBIZO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Data Guard by SmarTone asks for nothing beyond the download.
Data Guard by SmarTone ships an update every 5 weeks, HIBIZO every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Data Guard by SmarTone | HIBIZO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Connect APAC Company Limited | Matthew Mark |
In-app purchases
Data Guard by SmarTone
No in-app purchases
HIBIZO
- HIBIZO Pro$4.99









