Comparison

ZeroFox Alerts vs Session

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

Head to head
About

ZeroFox Alerts

This app provides real-time alerts for digital risks facing your organization across social media, mobile platforms, and the dark web. It helps you gain visibility, ensure control, and automate protection against threats to your brand and business, allowing you to take action from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Real-time threat alerts
  • Social media risk monitoring
  • Dark web threat detection
  • Automated protection
  • Actionable remediation capabilities
  • Brand and VIP protection
Features
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Protect your brand and business from social and digital risks wherever you are. ZeroFox notifies you to threats facing your organization on social media, mobile platforms, surface, deep and dark web and more. Whether you’re in the office, in a meeting, offsite or at an event, ZeroFox keeps you informed and protected with real-time, actionable alerts. From within the app, access alerts and take action to remediate potential threats to your brand or business. With ZeroFox, you’ll never miss a critical alert. Gain visibility. Immediately see beyond your perimeter to detect more threats faster, before they impact your business, brand and VIPs. Ensure control. Dramatically reduce your risk with artificial intelligence-driven analysis, custom policy rules, real-time alerts and remediation capabilities. Automate protection. Eliminate threats in real-time with automated alerts delivered to your mobile device so you can act quickly and effectively. Take action from anywhere. ZeroFox’s mobile app provides the powerful protection of the ZeroFox platform at your fingertips, wherever and whenever you need it. With ZeroFox, you can protect your brand and business wherever you are, all from your mobile device.

About

Session

This secure messenger prioritizes your privacy with a decentralized network and end-to-end encryption. It offers anonymous account creation, IP address protection, and private group chats without collecting any metadata. Share messages and files with confidence, knowing your communications are truly private.

Highlights
  • Anonymous account creation
  • Decentralized server network
  • No metadata logging
  • IP address protection
  • End-to-end encrypted group chats
  • Secure file sharing
Features
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Session is a new breed of private messenger, built on a unique network of user-operated servers spread all over the world. With no central servers, Session can’t leak or sell your data. And with Session’s private routing protocols, your messages are completely safe. No trackers, no leaks — send messages, not metadata. • Fully private account creation: No phone number or email needed to create an Account ID • Decentralized server network: No data breaches, no central point of failure • No metadata logging: Session doesn't store, track, or log your messaging metadata • IP address protection: Device IP addresses are never exposed to the person you're talking to or the servers holding your data • Closed groups: Private, end-to-end encrypted group chats for up to 100 people • Secure attachments: Share voice snippets, photos, and files with Session's secure encryption and privacy protections • Free and open-source: Don’t take our word for it — check Session's code yourself Session is free as in free speech and free as in free of ads and trackers. It is stewarded by the Session Foundation, a Swiss-based foundation dedicated to advancing digital rights and innovation. Take back your online privacy today — download Session. Want to build from source, report a bug, or just take a look at our code? Check out Session on GitHub: https://github.com/session-foundation/session-ios

Screenshots

ZeroFox Alerts4 screens
Session4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ZeroFox Alerts at none against Session's 3. ZeroFox Alerts also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3). Session's advantage is ratings volume (4.6K vs 12) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Session sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month. ZeroFox Alerts asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ZeroFox Alerts holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Session has 4.6K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of ZeroFox Alerts's written reviews are positive against 61% of Session's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ZeroFox Alerts ships an update every 2 months, Session fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
ZeroFox Alerts versus Session: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZeroFox AlertsSession
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (12 ratings) — better4.3 (4.6K ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews61.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings124.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#101 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB96 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperZeroFOXThe Loki Project

Customer experience

ZeroFox Alerts

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Session

All ratings4,592 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral4.5%
Negative12.3%
Written reviews1,216 reviews
Positive61.0%
Neutral12.2%
Negative26.8%

Bugs and requests

ZeroFox Alerts

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Session

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Messages not syncing across devices
  • Inability to join or view group chats
  • Attachments and media not loading properly
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add voice and video calling
  • Implement self-destruct/ephemeral messaging
  • Allow customization of chat backgrounds and themes
  • Improve group chat functionality
  • Add support for multiple accounts/identities

In-app purchases

None

ZeroFox Alerts

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Session

Subscriptions3
  • Session Pro$4.491 Month
  • Session Pro$11.993 Months
  • Session Pro$35.991 Year

Questions

Is ZeroFox Alerts free?
ZeroFox Alerts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Session free?
Session is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ZeroFox Alerts or Session?
ZeroFox Alerts is rated higher. ZeroFox Alerts averages 4.7 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Session averages 4.3 from 4.6K ratings.
Do ZeroFox Alerts or Session have ads?
Neither ZeroFox Alerts nor Session shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ZeroFox Alerts or Session?
ZeroFox Alerts ships an update every 2 months, and Session fortnightly. Most recently, ZeroFox Alerts was updated on September 1, 2026 and Session on September 26, 2026.

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