LockChat vs Dixl Messenger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LockChat
This app provides end-to-end encrypted messaging, ensuring your conversations are private and secure. It offers advanced features for corporate clients, including server management and user control.
- End-to-end encrypted chat
- User-controlled keys
- Corporate server management
- User management
- Contact list integration
- Secure file transfer
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After successfully securing email communication and file transfer, Galaxkey is happy to secure the end-to-end messaging for users. Galaxkey uses it’s robust data protection platform to build a secure chat application. The chat application covers the missing piece of secured instant messaging from the Galaxkey’s data protection platform. It allows users to securely chat with each other with keys controlled by them. In addition to normal chat features, it will allow corporate customers to 1. Manage chat server within their infrastructure 2. Manage users using Galaxkey interface 3. Have complete control over the instant messaging app Users will be able to add any contact from their contacts list and communicate securely with them. Galaxkey will be adding many new and unique features to the application in near future.
Dixl Messenger
A private, invitation-only messaging app for teams and organizations. It offers a clean, fast, and reliable communication platform focused on privacy.
- Invitation-only access
- Team communication
- Private messaging
- Clean interface
- Fast and reliable
- Privacy-focused
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Dixl is a private, invitation-only messenger designed for teams and organizations. Stay connected with your colleagues through a clean, fast, and reliable communication platform built with privacy in mind.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dixl Messenger at every 8 days against LockChat's every 3 weeks. Dixl Messenger also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). LockChat's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. 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 LockChat against 5.0 for Dixl Messenger. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dixl Messenger has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LockChat ships an update every 3 weeks, Dixl Messenger every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LockChat | Dixl Messenger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 250 MB | 175 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Galaxkey | Hosting Telecom LTD |
Customer experience
LockChat
Dixl Messenger
In-app purchases
LockChat
No in-app purchases
Dixl Messenger
No in-app purchases
