Krypton vs Jamf Unlock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Krypton
Securely encrypt and protect your personal documents and folders with strong encryption. This app acts like a digital vault, keeping your sensitive files safe from unauthorized access on your devices and cloud storage.
- Strong encryption for documents and folders
- Acts as a secure digital vault
- Supports various file types (pictures, movies, PDFs, etc.)
- Cloud synchronization with iCloud Drive and Dropbox
- Available on iOS and macOS
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Protecting your personal and confidential information since 2009, Krypton is the first, simplest and most reliable App on the iOS Store to strongly encrypt entire documents and folders. Now also available on the macOS App Store. Your stuff is secure from prying eyes no matter where you are in the world. Metaphorically, Krypton keeps your encrypted items in a special vault, with each item contained in their own deposit box; to gain access to an encrypted item the vault must be open and the passcode key must be used to unlock the deposit box before you can discern the plaintext contents inside. In iOS the vault may be open or closed, while on macOS the vault opens upon Log In. Because the unit of encryption is an entire document or folder, Krypton is not a password manager in the traditional sense, although you can maintain a document of all your passwords that you encrypt between uses. Krypton can encrypt any type of document, including but not limited to: • Pictures and movies from your photo album. • Email messages from your mailbox. • Songs, PDFs, movies, Zip files, word processing documents, text files, images, program source code or any other object that you can download over the network or from your personal web server. • Anything on the iOS pasteboard. • Any document other Apps are willing to Share, such as Pages, Numbers and Keynote. • iCloud Drive and Dropbox files for easy cloud synchronization. Krypton uses strong encryption on each item. This has several ramifications: • If your passcode is strong enough to withstand a brute force attack, no one is going to see your stuff. • If you forget your passcode, no one can recover your stuff for you! But only that one document is lost, not your entire collection of items. • Your stuff is secure even if your iDevice or Mac is stolen, or iCloud Drive or Dropbox account is compromised. Visit http://www.bigcatos.com to learn more.
Jamf Unlock
Unlock your Mac without a password using your mobile device. This app generates identity credentials and pairs with your Mac for seamless authentication for unlocking, system settings, and root commands.
- Passwordless Mac unlocking
- Authenticate system settings changes
- Secure sudo command execution
- Mobile device credential generation
- Pairing with Mac
- Customizable by IT administrators
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Jamf Unlock is a mobile app that allows you to unlock your Mac without using a password. With Jamf Unlock, you complete a setup process to generate identity credentials (a certificate) on your mobile device and pair the device with your Mac. Once complete, you can use the app to authenticate for: - Unlocking your Mac - Prompts to change settings in System Preferences - Commands executed with root privileges with the sudo command IT administrators can use Jamf Pro to customize the look and feel of the app, configure authentication settings via managed app configuration, and deploy the app to users. Jamf Unlock is an iOS app to extend the Jamf Connect product for passwordless authentication on the Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Jamf Unlock at Free against Krypton's $2.99. Jamf Unlock also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On rating, 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
Jamf Unlock is free to download; Krypton costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Krypton against 5.0 for Jamf Unlock. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.
Krypton ships an update every 10 months, Jamf Unlock every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Krypton | Jamf Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steve Lidie | JAMF Software |
Customer experience
Krypton
Jamf Unlock
In-app purchases
Krypton
No in-app purchases
Jamf Unlock
No in-app purchases









