Secret.ly vs PixelMask
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Secret.ly
This app lets you hide text or images within other images using steganography. It employs encryption and customizable secret keys for secure data storage and sharing, ensuring privacy without collecting user data.
- Hide text or images within other images
- Steganography techniques
- Customizable secret keys
- Data encryption
- Secure storage and sharing
- No data collection
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Secret.ly© allows you to hide and reveal data on images imperceptibly without any visual changes through steganography techniques. Steganography is a set of ancient techniques that consist of hiding information in plain sight but isn't a form of cryptography because it only hides the existence of that data. That's why Secret.ly uses a customizable secret key that is automatically encrypted as well as the data that will be hidden, ensuring security and inviolability. With Secret.ly you can: • Store sensitive data in plain view securely. • Hide and reveal any type of text or image within images. • Use customizable passwords on each image with hidden data to reveal their content. • Save and share the hidden data. Privacy and security - Secret.ly encrypts all data and hash values of the secret keys used in the app. Even without setting a customizable secret key, a default encrypted one is used to prevent third parties from accessing your data. - Only the same key that encrypted a file is able to decrypt it and it is not possible to recover forgotten keys. - We do not collect or store any data used in the application, not even passwords (secret keys). To share images with hidden data, make sure that the chosen app or communication channel allows to send images at their original size without compression. Compressing an encoded image to reduce its size can corrupt or completely erase the hidden data, making it impossible to decode them.
PixelMask
This app allows you to hide secret messages or confidential data within images using advanced steganography. It offers multiple methods to ensure your data remains invisible and secure, even under analysis. Protect your privacy and transmit information discreetly.
- Invisible data embedding
- Multiple steganography methods
- Simple encoding and decoding
- Secure data transmission
- Preserves image quality
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PixelMask is a reliable tool for safeguarding your personal information using advanced steganography techniques. With an intuitive interface and powerful technology, PixelMask allows you to embed secret messages or confidential data into any image. Key Features: - Invisible Data Embedding: Protect your privacy by embedding data into images using the least significant bit (LSB) method. The changes remain invisible to the naked eye. - Multiple Steganography Methods: Utilize various embedding strategies such as Sequential Color Cycling (SCC) and uniform distribution to keep your data hidden, even under statistical analysis. - Simplicity and Security: Easily encode and decode information with just a few taps. Your data remains secure, invisible, and accessible only to those with the decryption key. - Wide Range of Applications: Perfect for securely transmitting personal messages, protecting intellectual property, or storing confidential data. - High Quality: PixelMask preserves the integrity of your images, ensuring protection without loss of visual quality. --- PixelMask | Premium By purchasing a subscription, you gain access to all paid features of PixelMask. The subscription automatically renews, and payment is charged monthly or annually, with the price depending on the selected plan. The subscription automatically renews until it is canceled, at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment for renewal will be charged to your account within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to the product. - Terms of Service: https://SosinVitalii.com/terms-conditions - Privacy Policy: https://SosinVitalii.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PixelMask at 5.0 against Secret.ly's 4.4. PixelMask also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Secret.ly's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). 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. PixelMask sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Secret.ly asks for nothing beyond the download.
PixelMask holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Secret.ly has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Secret.ly's written reviews are positive against 100% of PixelMask's.
Secret.ly ships an update every 5 days, PixelMask every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Secret.ly | PixelMask |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | S. Technologies Solutions | Vitalii Sosin |
Customer experience
Secret.ly
PixelMask
In-app purchases
Secret.ly
No in-app purchases
PixelMask
- Monthly Premium Access$1.991 Month
- Yearly Premium Access7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Purchase Premium Access$9.99
- Purchase Premium Access$49.99







