Comparison

TikTokCell vs Siabra

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

Head to head
About

TikTokCell

Features
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FOR YOUR PRIVACY - Your photos and videos are not stored on any servers. They are stored on your mobile device. NO INTERNATIONAL CHARGES, FREE WORLD VOICE CALLS, FREE WORLD VIDEO CALLS: Keep in touch with friends and family around the world with TikTokCell. Besides free voice calls, this feature also allows you to leave voice messages absolutely free! NO HIDDEN COST: After you and your friends download the app, you can use it to video chat / text as much as you want. Send a million messages a day to your friends for free! TikTokCell uses your Internet connection: 3G/4G or Wi-Fi when available. NO USERNAME AND PASSWORD NEEDED: TikTokCell works with your phone number and integrates flawlessly with your existing phone address book. Don't worry about getting logged off from another computer or device. With push notifications mirageV1 is ALWAYS ON and ALWAYS CONNECTED. CHAT: You can chat with just one person, or several contacts at once. It's a good way to save sending lots of messages and to communicate quickly with several people at once. WEATHER: See updated weather reports in your area, with animation. PROFILE: TikTokCell allows you to change your personal details.

About

Siabra

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Siabra is a messenger whose private chats are protected by end-to-end encryption: a message is encrypted on your device and decrypted on your contact's. The keys never leave the phone — the server stores and forwards an opaque block and cannot read it. Not everything here is encrypted, and we say so plainly — here and in the app. WHAT THIS VERSION HAS • One-to-one chats with end-to-end encryption • Encrypted groups up to 256 members: roles, adding and removing, ownership transfer • Closed and open groups — no member limit and no encryption • Channels, closed and public: owner and admins post, everyone else reads. A public one is readable on the web without signing in; channels are not encrypted • Saved Messages — encrypted notes to yourself • Siabra, an AI assistant: everyone gets their own chat with it, unencrypted. It sees images you send, hears voice messages and draws on request • One-to-one audio and video calls • Image attachments — in encrypted chats and the assistant chat, up to 8 MiB per file • Stories that last a day: seen by your contacts and people you have written to; not by those you blocked • Voice messages up to five minutes • Notifications: your device puts the name and text together, not the server • Light and dark theme • Interface in seven languages, English among them WHAT IS ENCRYPTED AND WHAT IS NOT Encrypted: one-to-one chats, encrypted groups, Saved Messages and their attachments. Not encrypted: closed and open groups, channels, and the chat with the assistant. These messages are stored on the server in plain text, and reading them is technically possible if needed. "Closed" means an outsider cannot open the chat — not that it is encrypted. Which chat you are in is shown next to the input field, as you type. Everything you send the assistant — text, images, voice — also leaves our server for the model provider that prepares the reply, and attachments there are not encrypted. Nothing else goes there: no name, no phone number, not a single message from any other chat. HOW THE ENCRYPTION WORKS The session is established with X3DH; symmetric encryption is AES-256-GCM. All encrypted chats — one-to-one, group and Saved — use Sender Keys: every device has its own sender chain, and the chain key travels to the recipient in an envelope sealed to their key, so your chats open on all your devices. The price, plainly: unlike the Double Ratchet, this scheme does not heal itself after a key is stolen. Audio and video are encrypted between devices (DTLS-SRTP); the devices agree on the keys. The 256-member limit applies to encrypted groups only: the chain key goes to each member pairwise. Where there is no encryption there is no limit. WHAT ENCRYPTION DOES NOT HIDE We promise no anonymity: signing in requires a phone number. The server sees who wrote to whom and when, the size of the encrypted block, when a device was last online, group membership, and for calls — who called whom, how long. If a direct connection fails, the call goes through our relay: it does not hear the conversation, but sees both addresses and the data volume. If you turn on address book sync, the server keeps your contact list — who knows whom; only you turn it on, and turning it off erases it. All of this is in the privacy policy: siabra.by/privacy.html LIMITS WE PREFER TO SAY UP FRONT • Group membership is confirmed by the server, not by encryption — check the member list yourself. • Someone removed from a group can still decrypt messages already received — they got those keys legitimately as a member. Chain rotation cuts off only new ones. • Saved Messages are encrypted with this device's keys: your notes won't open on another device. • No calls in groups or channels, and the assistant cannot be called.

Screenshots

TikTokCell4 screens
Siabra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TikTokCell at 11.0 against Siabra's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
TikTokCell versus Siabra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTikTokCellSiabra
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBecigirl, incAndrei Ivanouski

In-app purchases

None

TikTokCell

No in-app purchases

None

Siabra

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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