TrueSecure Key vs The Contact Vault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TrueSecure Key
Use your smartphone as a digital key to unlock doors equipped with compatible hardware. This app allows for convenient access without needing physical key cards or fobs, utilizing Bluetooth for secure transmission.
- Unlock doors with your phone
- No physical key cards needed
- Bluetooth key transmission
- Background operation
- Supports multiple keys
Read full descriptionHide full description
With the TrueSecure™ Key app, use your phone to open TrueSecure equipped doors. Stop digging around for key cards & fobs in your bag. When your access control system is equipped with TrueSecure hardware, your smartphone can remain in your pocket to unlock the door. Use your phone to unlock doors – either from your pocket or by holding your phone near the door’s reader. The TrueSecure Key app transmits your digital key via the phone’s Bluetooth to the reader/lock to authenticate your mobile key & unlock the door. Very little battery power is used. Your phone can remain locked with the app open and running in the background. The app can hold multiple keys to open multiple doors. This app will only work with TrueSecure-enabled hardware. Your access control administrator will need to issue you a TrueSecure mobile key credential.
The Contact Vault
This app encrypts contacts you wish to avoid texting impulsively and removes them from your address book. A customizable timer allows a brief window to reconnect after a set period, ensuring thoughtful communication.
- Encrypts contacts
- Removes contacts from address book
- Customizable cooling-off timer
- Brief window for reconnection
- No cloud or account required
Read full descriptionHide full description
Some numbers you shouldn't delete — you just shouldn't be able to text them at 1 a.m. Contact Vault takes the contacts you'd rather not reach on impulse, encrypts them on your device, and removes them from your address book. Want back in? A cooling-off timer starts, set by you — an hour, a day, a week — long enough to think it over. When it ends, you get a brief window to view, message, or call before everything quietly locks itself again. No accounts, no cloud, no judgment. The pause is the point.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Contact Vault at 5.0 against TrueSecure Key's 4.4. The Contact Vault also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). TrueSecure Key's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
The Contact Vault holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TrueSecure Key has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TrueSecure Key ships an update every 3 months, The Contact Vault every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrueSecure Key | The Contact Vault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plasco LLC | John Campbell |
In-app purchases
TrueSecure Key
No in-app purchases
The Contact Vault
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is TrueSecure Key free?
Is The Contact Vault free?
Which has better reviews, TrueSecure Key or The Contact Vault?
Do TrueSecure Key or The Contact Vault have ads?
Which is updated more often, TrueSecure Key or The Contact Vault?
Other comparisons
