Comparison

AWS WickrGov vs SquadPT

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

Head to head
About

AWS WickrGov

This secure communication service offers end-to-end encrypted messaging, calling, and file sharing for organizations. It operates within a U.S. government-compliant cloud environment, ensuring adherence to strict security and regulatory requirements for sensitive data.

Highlights
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Secure messaging (up to 500 users)
  • Audio and video calling (up to 100 attendees)
  • Screen sharing (up to 500 participants)
  • File sharing (up to 5GB)
  • Configurable ephemeral messaging
Features
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AWS WickrGov is a secure communications service that helps public and commercial organizations collaborate across messaging, calling, file sharing, and screen sharing with end-to-end encryption within the AWS GovCloud U.S.-West Region. AWS GovCloud is designed to host sensitive data, regulated workloads, and address the most stringent U.S. government security and compliance requirements. AWS WickrGov collaboration offerings: • Runs in AWS GovCloud U.S-West Region, operated by U.S. personnel • Enables adherence to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) • One-on-one or group messaging: Securely chat with up to 500 Wickr users in a room • Audio and video calling: Hold conference calls with up to 100 attendees • Screen sharing and broadcasting: Present with up to 500 participants • File sharing and saving: Transfer files up to 5GB with unlimited storage • Configurable ephemeral messaging: Control expiration and burn-on-read timers AWS WickrGov provides a secure platform for public sector organizations and teams to help manage their sensitive communications.

About

SquadPT

Plan weekly physical training schedules for platoons and small teams. Features include daily grids for location, uniform, and workout details, event publishing across squads, and printable briefs. Soldiers can record personal after-action reviews and test results.

Highlights
  • Weekly PT planning grid per squad
  • Unit-wide event publishing
  • Printable, one-tap briefs
  • Reusable day templates
  • Individual after-action reviews
  • Army Fitness Test result tracking
  • Role-based access control
Features
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SquadPT is the weekly PT planning board for platoons and small teams. Squad leaders plan their own week, unit-wide events land on every squad's calendar automatically, and the commander's brief prints clean in one tap. PLAN BY SQUAD • A Monday–Friday grid per squad: location, uniform, instructors, equipment, warm-up, workout, cool-down, and notes — plus a training focus for every day. • Read-only by default: flip Edit to make changes, and every save is stamped with its author. • Edits sync live to every signed-in device. PUBLISH ONCE • Events and DONSAs — AFT, company, battalion, brigade, morale — are entered once and appear on the matching days of every squad's plan. • The month calendar shows the whole unit's picture at a glance. BRIEF CLEAN • One tap turns the live plan into a ready to print brief with the unit and week header on every page. • Print it, save it as a PDF, or send it through the iOS share sheet. TEMPLATES • Save any day as a reusable template ("Ruck 6 MI", "Deck of Cards") and apply it in two taps. • Each squad keeps its own library. AFTER-ACTION, PER SOLDIER • Every soldier writes their own improves and sustains on the session they just did — under their own name, not into a shared field. • Squad leaders and above read their squad's. Nobody can edit somebody else's words, and it never appears on the printed brief. TEST RESULTS, KEPT NARROW • Record Army Fitness Test results and waist-to-height measurements for your soldiers, and see at a glance which event the squad needs to train. • Raw entries only. Point values, totals and the ratio are worked out when they are displayed and never stored, so a corrected scoring table re-scores history instead of contradicting it. • Who can see a soldier's results is enforced in the database, not in the app: that soldier, their own squad leader, and their platoon leadership. Not other squads, not company command, and not us — the operator's support view is deliberately unable to display them. • SquadPT is not a system of record. DA Form 705-AFT and your unit's ABCP screening record remain authoritative. ROLES THAT MATCH THE FORMATION • Members read; squad leaders own their squad's plan; the platoon sergeant and leadership edit everything; admins manage the roster, squads, and the join code. • A squad leader can grant a member edit access for a single month — and revoke it anytime. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Access is by team join code: created server-side, stored only as a hash, shown once, rotatable at any time. • Accounts are a username and password. No email address, no phone number — nothing to phish. • Every team's data is isolated by database-enforced access control. No ads, no analytics, no tracking. • Delete your account any time from inside the app (Profile → Delete account). A sole owner deletes the team with it; an owner with members hands off ownership first. SquadPT is a commercial planning tool for unclassified training administration. It is not a government system and not a system of record. Accounts carry a rank and last name and nothing else; beyond that, the app holds only what your unit chooses to put in it — plan content, after-action comments, and, if you use them, fitness test results and waist-to-height measurements — each visible only to the soldier and their own chain of command. New teams: request access at squadpt.com — your team's join code is delivered once a request is approved.

Screenshots

AWS WickrGov4 screens
SquadPT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SquadPT at 5.0 against AWS WickrGov's 1.3. SquadPT also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). AWS WickrGov's advantage is ratings volume (186 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SquadPT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AWS WickrGov has 186 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AWS WickrGov ships an update monthly, SquadPT weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
AWS WickrGov versus SquadPT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAWS WickrGovSquadPT
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (186 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews2.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings186 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size173 MB7 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWickr, LLCSoloNova LLC

Customer experience

AWS WickrGov

All ratings186 ratings
Positive5.9%
Neutral1.6%
Negative92.5%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive2.4%
Neutral4.8%
Negative92.9%

SquadPT

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

AWS WickrGov

No in-app purchases

None

SquadPT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AWS WickrGov free?
AWS WickrGov is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SquadPT free?
SquadPT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AWS WickrGov or SquadPT?
SquadPT is rated higher. AWS WickrGov averages 1.3 out of 5 from 186 ratings, while SquadPT averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do AWS WickrGov or SquadPT have ads?
Neither AWS WickrGov nor SquadPT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AWS WickrGov or SquadPT?
AWS WickrGov ships an update monthly, and SquadPT weekly. Most recently, AWS WickrGov was updated on October 5, 2026 and SquadPT on September 30, 2026.

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