The Cipher vs Kryptos Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Cipher
This app allows users to encrypt and decrypt messages using a variety of classic ciphers. It also includes tools for cryptoanalysis to help understand encrypted text and a mod calculator.
- Multiple classic ciphers (Rail Fence, Caesar, Vigenere, Enigma, etc.)
- Cryptoanalysis tools (Letter Frequency, N-Gram Frequency)
- Mod Calculator
- Random Generator
- Encrypt and decrypt messages
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Encrypt and decrypt messages using famous ciphers. *** Ciphers *** * Rail Fence * Scytale * Caesar Shift * Substitution * Vigenere * Enigma *** Crypto-anaylis *** * Letter Frequency * N-Gram Frequency * Word Frequency * Repeated Letters + Factors * Index of Coincidence * Fitness Measure *** Tools *** * Mod Calculator * Random Generator
Kryptos Tools
This app offers a comprehensive suite of classic cryptography tools, including Vigenère and Transposition ciphers, to help users explore and potentially solve complex puzzles. It consolidates features from previous versions and provides detailed information on famous unsolved codes.
- Classic cipher implementations
- Vigenère cipher
- Transposition Matrix
- Detailed puzzle information
- Sixteen classic ciphers
- Future cipher additions
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Kryptos Tools combines the best features of the previous two apps (Kryptos Tools - Vigenère and Kryptos Tools - Transposition) along with additional details, documents and photos consolidated into one great app. Kryptos Tools includes classic ciphers, like the Vigenère cipher, that was used to encrypt the first two sections of Kryptos (K1 and K2). It also includes the Transposition Matrix which provides a visual implementation of the Transposition cipher for solving Kryptos section K3. Kryptos Tools now contains sixteen (16) classic ciphers: * Affine * Atbash * Beaufort (plus Autokey variant) * Bifid * Caesar * Columnar Transposition * Four-square * Gronsfeld (plus Autokey variant) * Hill * One-Time Pad * Playfair * ROT13 (Rotate-13) * Substitution * Transposition Matrix * Trifid * Vigenère (plus Autokey variant) Additional ciphers and utilities will be added in future releases. Detailed solutions and information about these sections of the puzzle are also detailed within. Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Since the dedication of Kryptos on November 3, 1990, the first three sections have been successfully decrypted. However, the fourth section remains one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. Are you going to be the one to solve this mystery?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kryptos Tools at 4.6 against The Cipher's 2.8. The Cipher's advantage is review sentiment (29% vs 0%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Kryptos Tools holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 29% of The Cipher's written reviews are positive against 0% of Kryptos Tools's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
The Cipher ships an update fortnightly, Kryptos Tools monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Cipher | Kryptos Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (6 ratings) | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Logan Richards | Jeffrey Williams |
Customer experience
The Cipher
Kryptos Tools
In-app purchases
The Cipher
No in-app purchases
Kryptos Tools
No in-app purchases
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