Snikket vs Cifer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Snikket
Connect with friends, family, and colleagues on a global network without compromising your personal data. This privacy-focused chat application requires an invite to a Snikket service to function, ensuring secure and trusted communication.
- Privacy-friendly communication
- Worldwide communication network
- Data protection
- Trusted service providers
- Open-source software
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The Snikket app allows you to join a worldwide communication network. Use the app for communicating with friends, family and colleagues without surrendering your data to large corporations. Important Note: To get started with the app you need an invite to a Snikket service, or run your own. The app will not work unless you have an invite to join a Snikket service. Snikket allows you to use a service provided by someone you trust. This could be an organisation, simply a techie friend or family member. Snikket is 100% free and open-source software. Questions? Browse our FAQ: https://snikket.org/app/faq/
Cifer
This secure messaging app offers a private communication environment with advanced privacy controls. Users can manage access, block contacts, and set self-destruct timers for messages. It prioritizes user control and data security.
- Independent enclosed environment
- Full control of access
- Pause, delete, block users
- Password and 2FA
- Screen capture block
- Destruct timer
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Cifer is very secure. Use responsibly. Cifer is an alternative to provide responsible privacy in a world that is always trying to pry. We use an independent enclosed environment. You are an anonymous endpoint, and we give you full control of the access people have to your endpoint. You can pause, delete, block users. Contacts must be 'Approved' by you. You can add a password, two-factor authentication to your secure email, and even add screen capture block. A destruct timer is right there to control view time. It works. Be safe, be private, and have a life you control. Just Encrypting the 'server' is not enough. We use cryptologic and independent encrypted random tokens for the key. Combined with a super-computer denial encryption, this is your go to app for private talk.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cifer at 5.0 against Snikket's 3.5. Cifer also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 7 months). Snikket's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (17 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Cifer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Snikket asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cifer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Snikket has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Snikket ships an update every 7 months, Cifer every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Snikket | Cifer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Snikket Community Interest Company | The Worldwide Exchange International |
Customer experience
Snikket
Cifer
In-app purchases
Snikket
No in-app purchases
Cifer
- Cifer . One Month Trial OfferFree
- Cifer . Monthly Subscription$99.99
- Cifer 'Secure' Messages$99.99









