Crypty vs CollaChat
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.
CollaChat
A decentralized, open-source messaging app focused on privacy and data security. It leverages blockchain technology for peer-to-peer communication, offering end-to-end encryption and user control over data storage.
- Decentralized communication network
- End-to-end message encryption
- Open-source client and server
- Multi-device support (Web/Mobile/Desktop)
- Group chats and calls
- Message self-destruction and recall
- Contact and chat locking
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CollaChat is an open source private and decentralized messaging app owned by no one and everyone. It is aimed to leverage blockchain technology to put users back in control of their digital communication, while preserve user experiences that they know and love. Distinguished from the traditional messaging apps, CollaChat has three most important features which revolutionize the communication infrastructure: - Decentralized Colla Network is an unstoppable Web3 decentralized peer-to-peer communication and storage network, Colla DApp (e.g. CollaChat) connects to it via Colla Node. There is no centralized storage and control of user data, users can specify which Node(s) or even easily setup own Node(s) to connect to. - End-to-End Encrypted All messages are end-to-end encrypted, only author and intended recipients can see the content. - Open Source Both Colla Network client side (i.e. Colla DApp, e.g. CollaChat) and server side (i.e. Colla Node) are free and open source for anyone to download, install, run and build own deployment. CollaChat supports Web/Mobile/Desktop and Multi-device. It has most popular messaging and social functions: - Chat (supports text, emoji, voice, photo, video, file, card, supports group chat, supports offline messaging) - Voice/Video Call (supports group call) - Collection & Note - Channel Moreover, it provides some useful privacy protection functions: - Message Self-destruction - Message Recall - Contact/Chat Lock
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CollaChat at 5.0 against Crypty's 3.0. CollaChat also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and device support (4 vs 2). 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.
CollaChat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Crypty ships an update every 5 months, CollaChat every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crypty | CollaChat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 288 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CRYPTY SRL | CURL TECH PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
Crypty
CollaChat
In-app purchases
Crypty
No in-app purchases
CollaChat
No in-app purchases








