Comparison

Contact vs SecureChatKeyboard

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

Head to head
About

Contact

Safeguard your valuable contacts with instant backups. Easily send or save your address book via email, cloud storage, or messaging apps. Restore your contacts with a single tap.

Highlights
  • Infinite backups
  • Email backups
  • Save to iCloud Drive
  • Save to Google Drive
  • Share via WhatsApp/Telegram
  • One-tap restore
Features
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Back up, clean and organize your address book with Contacts Backup. Merge duplicates, fix messy numbers and keep a safe copy of every contact, on your iPhone and in your private iCloud. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account, no sign-up, no external servers. Your contacts stay on your device and, if you turn it on, in your own private iCloud storage. No tracking. ADDRESS BOOK HEALTH An instant score shows how tidy your contacts are. See duplicates, incomplete cards, contacts without a number and invalid phone numbers at a glance. Fix capitalization, extra spaces and repeated numbers or emails with one tap. MERGE DUPLICATES WITHOUT LOSING DATA Exact and similar duplicates are found by name, phone and email. Merge everything at once or choose field by field. Photos in high resolution, labels, addresses, websites, job titles, birthdays and social profiles are always kept. Mark a group as "Not a duplicate" and it won't be suggested again. SAFETY BACKUP BEFORE EVERY CHANGE Before merging, cleaning or standardizing, the app saves a local safety backup automatically. If something isn't right, you can always go back. BACKUP AND RESTORE • Unlimited local backups in standard vCard (.vcf) format • Explore a backup and restore only the contacts you need, with automatic deduplication • Compare two backups to see every contact added, changed or deleted • Add notes and colors to recognize your backups at a glance • Share vCard files by email, AirDrop or messaging apps STANDARDIZE NUMBERS Add missing country codes (for example +1 or +44) to your contacts, with a clear preview before saving. BUSINESS CARD SCANNER Scan a paper card with the camera or pick a photo: the card is cropped automatically and name, job title, company, phone numbers, email and address are read for you. MORE TOOLS • Upcoming birthdays for the next 30 days • Statistics on your address book: completeness, country codes, trends • Share a contact with a QR code • Home Screen widget with the health score and next birthday CONTACTS BACKUP PRO Inspecting your duplicates, health issues and scans is free. Pro unlocks the actions and the automations: • Merge duplicates and automatic cleanup • Apply country codes and save scanned cards • Scheduled automatic backups (weekly, every two weeks or monthly) and backup reminders • iCloud Auto-Sync and download of cloud backups • Selective restore • CSV export for Excel and Google Contacts • Password-encrypted backups • Face ID, Touch ID and PIN lock Pro is an optional one-time purchase. The price is shown in the app before you confirm. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

SecureChatKeyboard

Features
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SecureChats Keyboard es un teclado personalizado para iOS que integra cifrado extremo a extremo (E2EE) directamente desde tu teclado. Cifra y descifra mensajes en cualquier aplicacion de mensajeria sin depender de servidores externos, sin cuentas y sin recopilar ningun dato. SecureChats Keyboard is a custom iOS keyboard with built-in end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Encrypt and decrypt messages in any messaging app with no servers, no accounts, and zero data collection. -- COMO FUNCIONA / HOW IT WORKS -- El teclado utiliza el Signal Protocol con intercambio de claves post-quantum Kyber (ML-KEM) mediante PQXDH. Los usuarios intercambian invitaciones criptograficas copiando y pegando texto codificado. Una vez establecida la sesion, cada mensaje se cifra localmente en tu dispositivo y solo puede ser descifrado por el destinatario. Ningun intermediario, servidor o tercero puede leer tus mensajes. The keyboard uses the Signal Protocol with post-quantum Kyber (ML-KEM) key exchange via PQXDH. Users exchange cryptographic invitations by copying and pasting encoded text. Once a session is established, every message is encrypted locally on your device and can only be decrypted by the intended recipient. No intermediary, server, or third party can read your messages. -- SEGURIDAD / SECURITY -- - Signal Protocol: Double Ratchet, forward secrecy y seguridad post-compromiso. - Post-Quantum: Kyber/ML-KEM protege contra ataques de computacion cuantica futura. - Almacenamiento cifrado: todos los datos locales se cifran con AES-256-GCM. La clave maestra se almacena en el iOS Keychain respaldado por Secure Enclave. - Sin red: la aplicacion no realiza ninguna conexion de red. Funciona completamente offline. - Signal Protocol: Double Ratchet, forward secrecy and post-compromise security. - Post-Quantum: Kyber/ML-KEM protects against future quantum computing attacks. - Encrypted storage: all local data is encrypted with AES-256-GCM. The master key is stored in the iOS Keychain backed by the Secure Enclave. - No network: the app makes zero network connections. It works entirely offline. -- PRIVACIDAD TOTAL / TOTAL PRIVACY -- - No recopilamos datos personales, analiticas, telemetria ni diagnosticos. - No hay servidores, cuentas de usuario ni registro. - No hay SDK de terceros, rastreadores ni publicidad. - No tenemos acceso a tus claves de cifrado. Si las pierdes, no podemos recuperarlas. - Codigo abierto bajo licencia GPL-3.0. - We collect no personal data, analytics, telemetry, or diagnostics. - No servers, no user accounts, no registration. - No third-party SDKs, trackers, or advertising. - We have no access to your encryption keys. If you lose them, we cannot recover them. - Open source under GPL-3.0 license. -- CARACTERISTICAS / FEATURES -- - Teclado QWERTY completo con soporte para espanol e ingles. - Cifrado E2EE integrado con un toque desde la barra de cifrado. - Multiples formatos de codificacion: Base64, JSON y esteganografia Unicode. - Historial de mensajes cifrado localmente. - Gestion de contactos E2EE. - Funciona en cualquier app: iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, correo y mas. - Completamente gratuito, sin compras integradas. - Full QWERTY keyboard with Spanish and English support. - Built-in E2EE encryption with one tap from the encryption bar. - Multiple encoding formats: Base64, JSON, and Unicode steganography. - Locally encrypted message history. - E2EE contact management. - Works in any app: iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, email and more. **** Aviso: si tenéis Face ID en la aplicación que vais a usar para chatear, no funcionará, porque Face ID limpia el portapapeles cada vez que le dais a pegar **** Developed by R00tedbrain.

Screenshots

Contact4 screens
SecureChatKeyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SecureChatKeyboard at none against Contact's 1. SecureChatKeyboard also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. Contact sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SecureChatKeyboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contact ships an update every 11 days, SecureChatKeyboard every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Contact versus SecureChatKeyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContactSecureChatKeyboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarlo Di GiuseppeIMMOACTIVAT I ASSOCIATS SL

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Contact

One-time1
  • Contacts Pro Lifetime$9.99
None

SecureChatKeyboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Contact free?
Contact is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SecureChatKeyboard free?
SecureChatKeyboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Contact or SecureChatKeyboard have ads?
Neither Contact nor SecureChatKeyboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contact or SecureChatKeyboard?
Contact ships an update every 11 days, and SecureChatKeyboard every 3 days. Most recently, Contact was updated on November 3, 2026 and SecureChatKeyboard on November 9, 2026.

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