Comparison

MTA Shield vs Visible PIN

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

Head to head
About

MTA Shield

Secure your mobile devices and personal information from online threats. Protect your family with parental controls, locate lost devices, and safeguard your online activities with a VPN and password vault. Requires an active MTA Internet subscription.

Highlights
  • Device protection from online threats
  • Online banking and shopping security
  • Lost/stolen device location and protection
  • Parental controls and content management
  • VPN for privacy
  • Password vault
  • Web-based family device management
Features
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Today, the Internet is full of criminals. Their goals range from stealing your private information, to damaging your devices, spreading harmful content and more. With MTA Shield, you can ensure the safety and security of all of you and your loved ones’ mobile devices. MTA Shield can be downloaded on up to 10 devices. Protect all of your and your family’s devices from criminals and hackers; both at home and on the go. Ensure your children are safe with the included Parental Controls and Content Management. Protect your children and decide what they see and where they go online. If your device is stolen or lost, Mobile Shield helps you locate and protect it, by locking your device or erasing its contents. With MTA Shield, you are able to: • Protect your mobile devices • Keep your personal information safe while banking and shopping online • Locate your device if it is lost or stolen • Protect your children while they surf the internet with Parental Controls • VPN for privacy • Password vault to secure all of your passwords • Manage and protect all your family’s devices using a simple, web-based dashboard *MTA Shield is exclusively available only to MTA Internet subscribers—an active MTA Internet service is a requirement for gaining access to use this app. *Disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Visible PIN

Features
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Visible PIN — your PIN code in plain sight… but not for everyone. Forget scribbled notes and hidden memos! Visible PIN is a smart and secure app for storing your bank card PINs by turning secrecy into visibility. At its core is a simple yet brilliant idea: you see a grid of digits, and any digit can be highlighted in color. You decide which cells are “active”—that’s where your PIN is hidden. To you, it’s an obvious sequence. To anyone else glancing at your phone, it’s just a colorful table with no meaning. How it works: — Create a new “card” and give it a name (e.g., “My Favorite Bank Card”). — Choose your PIN and highlight the corresponding digits in the grid using your chosen color. — The app never stores your actual PIN—only your unique coloring pattern. — At any time, you can recall your code just by looking at the highlighted cells. Security through obscurity Even if someone sees your screen, they won’t know: — In what order to read the digits, — Which colors are meaningful and which are just decoration. This isn’t encryption—it’s visual camouflage based entirely on your personal logic. Flexibility and control — Change highlight colors to match your mood or differentiate between cards. — Add decoy highlights to further confuse onlookers. Visible PIN doesn’t store your secrets. It makes them invisible in plain sight. Because the best password is the one nobody’s looking for.

Screenshots

MTA Shield4 screens
Visible PIN2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Visible PIN at every 2 days against MTA Shield's every 8 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MTA Shield ships an update every 8 months, Visible PIN every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
MTA Shield versus Visible PIN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMTA ShieldVisible PIN
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size277 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatanuska TelephonePavel Volobuev

In-app purchases

None

MTA Shield

No in-app purchases

None

Visible PIN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MTA Shield free?
MTA Shield is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visible PIN free?
Visible PIN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MTA Shield or Visible PIN have ads?
Neither MTA Shield nor Visible PIN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MTA Shield or Visible PIN?
MTA Shield ships an update every 8 months, and Visible PIN every 2 days. Most recently, MTA Shield was updated on November 3, 2026 and Visible PIN on October 28, 2026.

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