Crypty vs Cyph
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crypty
This app offers secure messaging, voice calls, and file sharing with end-to-end encryption. It features timed message destruction, confidential live streaming, and remote app wiping for enhanced privacy.
- End-to-end encrypted calls and messages
- Encrypted file sharing
- Timed self-destruction messages
- Confidential live streaming
- Remote app wipe
- Group chats and chatrooms
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Crypty is the only secure communication solution for your messages, calls and files sharing. Powerful, simple, instantaneous and illimited. Crypty enables you to: - Make and receive encrypted voice calls - Send and receive encrypted text, voice and video messages - Share your encrypted files - Create group chats - Create chatrooms - Take and send encrypted pictures - Use timed self-destruction option for messages - Create a confidential live stream, with recording for later viewing - Confidentially share your location - Use your corporate servers (opzional) - Wipe the Crypty app by remote Crypty provides full end-to-end encryption. It is the only secure communication app whose on-device data is safe even from spy software.
Cyph
A secure messaging and social networking service focused on extreme privacy and ease of use. It offers advanced protection against man-in-the-middle attacks and future quantum computing threats.
- Cryptographically secure messaging
- Extreme privacy
- Man-in-the-middle attack mitigation
- Quantum computing protection
- Native apps and web access
- Ease of use
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Cyph is a cryptographically secure messaging and social networking service, providing an extreme level of privacy combined with best-in-class ease of use. Cyph's patented technology — built by former SpaceX engineers, audited by Cure53, and the basis of research presentations at Black Hat and DEF CON — uniquely allows Cyph to solve the major security and usability limitations of conventional solutions. Only Cyph automatically mitigates man-in-the-middle attacks (with no manual in-person fingerprint verification), offers both native apps and cryptographically secure web access (thanks to WebSign), and as a bonus protects present-day end-to-end encrypted data from future quantum computing attacks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crypty at none against Cyph's 1. Cyph's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (20 vs 2). On price, rating, 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. Cyph sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $68.99 per month. Crypty asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Crypty against 3.1 for Cyph. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cyph has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Crypty ships an update every 5 months, Cyph every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crypty | Cyph |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.1 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 36.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CRYPTY SRL | Cyph |
Customer experience
Crypty
Cyph
In-app purchases
Crypty
No in-app purchases
Cyph
- Platinum (Monthly)$68.991 Month
