Comparison

Crypty vs Typhos

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Typhos

This secure messaging app offers end-to-end encrypted text, image, audio, and video messages, along with encrypted voice and video calls. It prioritizes user privacy with features like self-destructing messages and anonymous logins using a unique code, not a phone number.

Highlights
  • End-to-end encrypted messaging
  • Encrypted voice and video calls
  • Self-destructing messages
  • Anonymous login with unique code
  • Cross-platform compatibility
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Typhos is a cross-platform messaging app that focuses on privacy and security from the ground up. Typhos sends encrypted text, image, audio, and video messages to individuals and groups. It can also be used for encrypted user-to-user and group phone calls between Typhos mobile users. Our patented encryption technology ensures that messages are securely going where they are intended, and our privacy pledge ensures that no one is harvesting your information along the way. - Secure Chat ensures a secure text-messaging user experience. Typhos uses advanced encryption methods to ensure your messages are never received by anyone other than those for whom they are intended. End-to-End Encryption with our seamless encryption process ensures that messages stay protected from start to finish. - Self-Destructing Messages allow users to send messages that automatically delete themselves. This ensures messages are fully erased from all chats when the self-destruct countdown sequence completes. - Complete Encryption by default allows all chats, video, and voice calls to be safe, secure, and private all the time. Only the senders and recipients can view messages/calls. - Avatar and PIN ensure you are completely anonymous. We do not ask you for your name, or mobile number, and we have simplified the login process by not asking for a complicated password. Typhos uses a random User Unique Code (UUC), so you never have to worry about your information being compromised or attached to your phone number. Privacy policy: https://castle-shield.com/document/typhos/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://castle-shield.com/document/typhos/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Crypty4 screens
Typhos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Typhos at 5.0 against Crypty's 3.0. Typhos also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). Crypty's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, 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. Typhos sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Crypty asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Typhos holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crypty ships an update every 5 months, Typhos every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Crypty versus Typhos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCryptyTyphos
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCRYPTY SRLCastle Shield Holdings

Customer experience

Crypty

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Typhos

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Crypty

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Typhos

Subscriptions1
  • Typhos Monthly$11.991 Month
One-time1
  • Typhos Consumer Plan$7.99

Questions

Is Crypty free?
Crypty is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Typhos free?
Typhos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crypty or Typhos?
Typhos is rated higher. Crypty averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Typhos averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Crypty or Typhos have ads?
Neither Crypty nor Typhos shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crypty or Typhos?
Crypty ships an update every 5 months, and Typhos every 3 weeks. Most recently, Crypty was updated on October 3, 2026 and Typhos on October 7, 2026.

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