Comparison

Ordio vs Cryptogram Cipher

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

Head to head
About

Ordio

Streamline restaurant operations with automated workflows, staff scheduling, and time tracking. Manage checklists, vacation requests, and employee documents efficiently. Gain insights through detailed evaluations and exports.

Highlights
  • Workflow automation
  • Staff scheduling
  • Time recording
  • Checklists
  • Vacation requests
  • Document management
  • Detailed evaluations
Features
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Deskless Workforce Management - Automate daily processes in your restaurant with Ordio Workflow Automation. In addition to comprehensive staff management and staff scheduling, you can use Ordio Workspaces to create duty rosters, record working hours, create checklists and store your employees' documents and much more. - Checklists Use checklists to create recurring tasks or one-off lists for your employees. From checkboxes to signatures, photos, text or values, a variety of answer options can be specified. A detailed evaluation helps to optimize operations. - Query availabilities You create shift plans or duty rosters and let your employees indicate their availability via applications or assign them directly yourself. - Submit vacation requests Your employees can manage vacation requests and sick days and are informed about updates. - Time recording via app Your employees check in when they start work (check-in), record their breaks and end their working hours in the app. If required, also with location-based restrictions (GPS) or a signature in the app as confirmation. - Employee master data Your employees update their master data independently and your tax advisor is informed directly on request. You invite your employee by e-mail, they fill in all the required master data and your tax advisor is informed. If you deregister the employee, your tax advisor will of course also be informed! - Documents: Intelligent document workflows can be used to create rules with employees, work areas or employment relationships in Ordio. For example, driving licenses can be automatically requested from all employees with a vehicle. Or all employees in service and in the kitchen are asked to provide a health certificate. Since version 2.1, employees can now also edit the documents in the app. - Detailed evaluations & exports All times at a glance and, if required, export them and make them available to the tax consultant.

About

Cryptogram Cipher

Features
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Some messages belong between the two of you. A settlement proposal. A tip for an investigation. A conversation about health. Cryptogramm encrypts sensitive texts on your iPhone. You share the block of characters by chat or e-mail. FOR LAWYERS At an appointment in your office, you and your client set up your shared key. From then on, your client sends their view on a settlement as an encrypted block of characters by e-mail. You open it in Cryptogramm. FOR JOURNALISTS A source encrypts their tip before sending it. A short meeting point they leave on an agreed NFC sticker โ€“ with an expiry time, or readable only once on an NTAG 424 DNA. You can share locations in encrypted form too. FOR EVERYDAY LIFE You discuss your parents' care with your sister, or send your partner the access code for the holiday flat. Encrypt the text and share it over the channel you trust. Short notes you leave on an NFC sticker for later pickup. THE LOCKED NFC DEAD DROP Besides ordinary NFC stickers, Cryptogramm supports the NTAG 424 DNA. It releases its content only after authentication with the matching key. A stranger's phone does not even see the encrypted text there. The app sets up a new NTAG 424 DNA the first time you write to it, in the same tap. With a different key it stops without changing the tag. Resetting with the matching key wipes the tag completely and turns it back into an ordinary sticker. READABLE ONCE ONLY On the NTAG 424 DNA the chip itself enforces the single read: it counts the pickup and prevents the message from being opened again afterwards โ€“ even by you. Simply tapping it with a stranger's phone does not use up the single read. About 250 characters fit into an ordinary message, about 108 into one that is readable once only. The label and the sender take up part of that. The input field shows how much still fits. MESSAGES WITH AN EXPIRY TIME One hour, one day, one week, 30 days or an exact moment: you decide how long a message stays readable in the dead drop. The expiry time is encrypted along with it. Cryptogramm no longer shows expired messages and overwrites them when they are read. Can be combined with reading once only. SHARE AND BACK UP KEYS Hand over your shared key by QR code, AirDrop or link. The link opens Cryptogramm on the other iPhone and asks for the one-time code. Send that code separately, by a different route. The key passport backs up your key on a folded A5 card โ€“ also for a lost phone or an emergency wipe. Keep it in a safe: it is as valuable as the key itself. EMERGENCY WIPE AS A SHORTCUT Delete your local keys without confirmation and without opening the app: with the Action button, a double tap on the back of the phone or an automation. PRIVACY AND EU CHAT CONTROL The EU interim regulation allows certain providers, under conditions, to carry out voluntary checks to combat child sexual abuse. It applies until 3 April 2028; end-to-end encrypted communication is exempt. The permanent regulation is still being negotiated. As of October 2026. Optical paper codes can be copied by hand and read with the camera. Encrypting and decrypting also work in airplane mode. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Access with Face ID or the device passcode. Locally protected keys, fixed deletion deadlines, no provider servers, no ads, no tracking. Nine languages, now including Russian. GOOD TO KNOW Both of you need the app and the same key. Who communicates with whom and when remains visible to the messenger. A key obtained later can open older ordinary messages. Deliberately reading the tag with an NFC app can make a once-only message unreadable without decrypting it. Reading once only does not prevent copies at the moment of pickup. Without the key it was set up with, an NTAG 424 DNA stays locked for good. Buy once. Give what's private the protection it deserves.

Screenshots

Ordio4 screens
Cryptogram Cipher4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ordio at Free against Cryptogram Cipher's $3.99. Cryptogram Cipher's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Ordio is free to download; Cryptogram Cipher costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ordio ships an update monthly, Cryptogram Cipher weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Ordio versus Cryptogram Cipher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrdioCryptogram Cipher
PriceFree โ€” better$3.99
Positive reviews55.6% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size73 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOrdio GmbHRobby Riedel

In-app purchases

None

Ordio

No in-app purchases

None

Cryptogram Cipher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ordio free?
Ordio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cryptogram Cipher free?
Cryptogram Cipher costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ordio or Cryptogram Cipher have ads?
Neither Ordio nor Cryptogram Cipher shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ordio or Cryptogram Cipher?
Ordio ships an update monthly, and Cryptogram Cipher weekly. Most recently, Ordio was updated on October 18, 2026 and Cryptogram Cipher on October 13, 2026.

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