AxCrypt vs Resecta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AxCrypt
Securely encrypt and protect your sensitive files, passwords, and business data with this award-winning software. It offers automatic cloud encryption, a password manager, and easy file sharing across multiple platforms.
- Mobile Encryption
- Automatic Cloud Encryption
- Password Manager
- Encrypted File Sharing
- AES-256 Encryption
- Cross-platform Access
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AxCrypt is an award-winning and easy to use file and password encryption software. Use AxCrypt to encrypt and protect your sensitive files, passwords, and business data. AxCrypt comes with several unique features, including: * Mobile Encryption * Automatic Cloud Encryption * Password Manager * Automatic Encryption * Encrypted File Sharing * Master Key “Advanced encryption in a superbly simple setting” - PCMag Editor’s choice 2023. AxCrypt has been consistently awarded as the ‘Best Encryption Software’ by PC Mag for 7 years in a row, starting in 2016. With AxCrypt you easily and securely protect all your important files, in an interface that is clean and simple to use. AxCrypt implements strong AES-256 encryption, and you can always access your encrypted files (or files shared with you) for free, on any platform, forever. With AxCrypt it doesn’t matter what platform you use; all you need to do is log in and you can start accessing your files. With the AxCrypt application, you can view any file accessible on your phone, you can key share access to files with our market-leading key-sharing feature and you can encrypt and decrypt files on Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox (no hassle, it works the way you expect). More platforms are coming soon. AxCrypt app includes password manager. Enjoy secure access to your passwords, cards, and notes from anywhere with AES-256 encryption. Create, save, and manage passwords, credit and debit card details, and encrypted notes on the go. AxCrypt also has Windows and MacOS applications with even more features! Don’t leave your important files unprotected, secure them with AxCrypt today! Download it today and try it free for 30 days.
Resecta
Permanently remove sensitive information from your PDF documents directly on your device. This app offers both automatic detection and manual drawing tools for redaction, ensuring your data remains private and secure. It operates entirely offline with no data collection or network requests.
- On-device PDF redaction
- Automatic text detection
- Manual redaction drawing
- Review and apply redactions
- Export redacted PDFs
- Offline functionality
- No data collection
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Resecta redacts PDFs entirely on your iPhone. A black box drawn over text can leave the text underneath readable; Resecta is designed to remove the text in the regions you mark, then checks the output before you share. Find what to redact • Search by text, regular expression or a list of terms, and save the searches you reuse. • Scan looks for 17 kinds of personal information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, and card and account numbers (many are US formats). • Draw a rectangle by hand over anything else. Search and Scan results arrive unselected; nothing is redacted without your selection. Redact Marks show what will be removed. Tap Redact and Resecta rebuilds the PDF from page images, with the marked regions overwritten in the pixels. Secure Rasterization produces image-only output. Searchable Redaction keeps the text outside your redactions searchable, for PDFs that have a text layer. Check before you share Verification runs 7 checks on Secure Rasterization output and 12 on Searchable Redaction output, including text extraction, OCR, a search of the file's bytes, a metadata check, a re-run of the searches you applied, and a detection sweep. What they find is listed, and sharing a file with reported issues asks you to confirm. Verification is a check, not a substitute for your review. Private by design No accounts, no analytics, no data collection. The app makes no network requests of its own, and you can use it in airplane mode. Good to know • PDF files only, up to 50 MB and 500 pages. Encrypted PDFs are not supported. • Resecta doesn't store your documents or edits; share or save the redacted copy to keep it. • Name detection uses an on-device language model from iOS. Where it is unavailable, name results are reduced and the app says so. Free and open source under Apache-2.0. Source: github.com/Merlin1A/resecta
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Resecta at 5.0 against AxCrypt's 3.3. Resecta also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). AxCrypt's advantage is ratings volume (185 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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. AxCrypt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Resecta asks for nothing beyond the download.
Resecta holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AxCrypt has 185 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AxCrypt | Resecta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (185 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 185 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AxCrypt AB | Jesse Brookins |
Customer experience
AxCrypt
Resecta
In-app purchases
AxCrypt
- AxCrypt Premium Month1 Month trial$5.991 Month
- AxCrypt Premium Year1 Month trial$56.991 Year
Resecta
No in-app purchases









