Comparison

Olvid vs TaviChat

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

Head to head
About

Olvid

This private messaging app prioritizes user control and security. It does not require personal data, push contacts, or allow unsolicited messages. Enjoy secure, end-to-end encrypted conversations with guaranteed privacy.

Highlights
  • No personal data required
  • User-controlled contacts
  • No unsolicited messages
  • End-to-end encryption
  • End-to-end authentication
  • Group creation
  • No spam or advertising
Features
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Olvid is the first private instant messaging application for everyone. What is a "private" messenger? It's a messenger: - That does not push new contacts on you. You are in control: you choose who you want to discuss with. Olvid offers several ways to invite other Olvid users, either face-to-face or remotely. - That does not require any personal data. Olvid won't ask for your phone number, for your email. Unlike your previous messenger, Olvid will never request access to your address book. - On which you will never receive unsolicited messages or messages from an unknown source. - Where all exchanges benefit from the same security and privacy as a real-world discussion behind closed doors. Olvid offers end-to-end encryption and end-to-end authentication by default, always, for everything you send or receive. Olvid guarantees you safe spaces, immune to external aggression, which isolate you from the digital noise and violence of other social networks. Create groups with your family, friends and key collaborators. No spam, no advertising. You finally regain full control over your communications. Olvid has been designed to be the best place to exchange on subjects that matter, with those who matter to you. Olvid - Technology ------------------ At the heart of Olvid, a 'cryptographic engine' coming from several years of research allows to mathematically prove the authenticity, the integrity, and the confidentiality of your communications.

About

TaviChat

Features
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TaviChat keeps you in touch with the projects you use. Connect a project with a code from your account page, and its conversations appear in the app: updates from the project, a private line to its support team, and the chat where everyone in the project talks. WHAT YOU GET • Updates from the project — they reach you even when the app is closed. • Support — a private conversation with the people who run the project. No queue numbers, no forms. • Project chat — where members ask each other, share what worked and what did not, and find partners. • Mini apps — a project can give you a page of its own, opened straight from its card with no second password to remember. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE The app is available in 34 languages, and any message can be translated with one tap — even from a language the app itself does not speak. Write in your own words; the person on the other side reads it in theirs. QUIET AND CLEAN Every message in a project chat is checked before it is published: no links, no phone numbers, no adverts for other projects, no abuse. Anything you would rather not see, you can report or hide, and reports are answered within 24 hours. BUILT TO ASK FOR LITTLE No email, no phone number, no password. You sign in with a one-time code from the project you already use. There is no advertising in TaviChat, and data is neither sold nor rented out. You can delete your account and all of your conversations at any time — in the app or at tavi.chat. FOR COMPANIES TaviChat is a shared messenger for several projects. If you run one, you can connect it: your own chats, your own notifications, your own support desk and your own mini app. Write to support@tavi.chat.

Screenshots

Olvid4 screens
TaviChat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TaviChat at none against Olvid's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Olvid sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month. TaviChat asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Olvid versus TaviChat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOlvidTaviChat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperOlvidDigifit Partner OU

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Olvid

Subscriptions4
  • Individual$4.491 Month
  • Family$5.991 Month
  • Individual$44.901 Year
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  • Family$59.901 Year
None

TaviChat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Olvid free?
Olvid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TaviChat free?
TaviChat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Olvid or TaviChat have ads?
Neither Olvid nor TaviChat shows ads.

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