Comparison

Hode vs Zipym Lite

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

Head to head
About

Hode

Control your child's mobile activities and safeguard your personal information. Restrict app usage, screen time, and browsing history. Protect sensitive apps like banking and photos with local storage for maximum security.

Highlights
  • Parental Control
  • App Restrictions
  • Privacy Protection
  • Security Assurance
  • Video Tutorials
  • Elegant Design
Features
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If you need to have constant control over your child's mobile activities and protect your privacy, the Hode app can meet your requirements. Our application features the following main functions: Parental Control: The Hode app supports restricting apps that are not suitable for your child's use, allowing you to have constant control over your child's mobile activities. You can restrict app usage, screen time, browsing history, and more to ensure your child's online safety. Privacy Protection: The Hode app supports restricting the apps you want, ensuring the safeguarding of your personal information and privacy. Security Assurance: The Hode app ensures that all app-related information restricted is stored locally on your phone, not uploaded to servers, thus ensuring the security of your private content and preventing unauthorized access. App Restrictions: The Hode app assists you in easily limiting and protecting your private apps, such as social media, banking, photos, etc. Simply select the apps you wish to restrict, and they will no longer appear on your phone's main screen, ensuring your privacy. Video Tutorials: The Hode app also provides users with video tutorials, making it easy for you to understand how to use our application. These tutorials are straightforward and helpful in quickly mastering the app's features and usage. Elegant Design: The Hode app employs a minimalist and elegant design style, making it effortless to use and navigate, and enhancing the cleanliness and attractiveness of your phone's interface. In summary, if you need to protect your privacy and control your child's mobile activities, download the Hode app to make your life safer and more comfortable and to foster your child's healthy growth. 【Membership Upgrade】 Most of the application's features are available for free, while a few require a subscription for access. - Subscription Period: Quarterly Membership - Subscription Price: Refer to the price information displayed during the subscription time IAP application. (For example, after the first successful subscription, payment will be charged through your iTunes account. Subsequent renewals will be charged 24 hours before the billing cycle through your iTunes account.) - Cancel Subscription: You can unsubscribe at any time through the Apple ID settings. Membership upgrades are billed through your iTunes account on a monthly VIP basis. After the first successful subscription, payment will be charged through your iTunes account. Subsequent renewals will be charged 24 hours before the billing cycle through your iTunes account. You can cancel your subscription at any time in the phone settings. If you wish to cancel, please do so through your Apple ID settings. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Privacy Policy: http://support.shortvideotoolbox.com/bzdqprivacy Terms of Service: http://support.shortvideotoolbox.com/bzdqterms

About

Zipym Lite

This app is a versatile tool for managing files, browsing the web, and playing media. It supports a wide range of archive formats for compression and extraction, includes a built-in music and video player, and offers Wi-Fi file sharing capabilities.

Highlights
  • Archive compression and extraction
  • Password protection for archives
  • Multi-part archive support
  • Built-in music and video player
  • Web browser with source viewing
  • Wi-Fi file sharing
  • IPTV and M3U8 playback
Features
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Zipym Lite app is a quick compression program, web browser ,archiver, extractor, unarchiver and even a file manager tool. Zipym lite also supports accessibility VoiceOver. - Safari Web Extension: Zipym Video Helper Lite • Link Play, Play the video link on new Tab • Picture in Picture (PiP) • Full screen mode • 0.5~16 x play rate • Send video to Zipym Lite - Uncompress • Support archive formats: RAR ,7z ,Zip ,Zipx ,Tar ,Gzip ,Bzip2 ,Tgz ,Tar.gz ,Lzh,GZ, BZ2, XZ,ISO, ARJ, BZIP, TBZ, DEB, CAB, JAR, RPM, CBS,CBZ,CBR,LZMA,MSI,NSIS and other archive formats • Support multi-part archives • Support archives protected by a password - Compress • You can password protect any file to zip or 7z • You can split a any format archive to multi-part archives - Music player Most music formats mp3,m4a,aac,flac,ogg,wma,wav,aiff,opus, etc. - Video player • Most video formats rmvb、avi、mkv、mp4、flv、wmv、3gp、mov、vob、dvd、swf、rm、 ts, etc. • Picture in Picture for mp4 / mov videos - IPTV Support m3u and txt formats - M3U8 file player You can view / play / merge /merge and convert the m3u8 file content - Wi-Fi Sharing Transfer files from other devices(pc or other phone) over Wifi - Browser • View Page Source • View Video Source • View Image Source • View JavaScript Source • Images of websites • Videos of websites • M3U8 files of websites • User Scripts • Support Wi-Fi Sharing, download files of another device (pc or other phone) - URL scheme • Startup zipymlite:// • Open URL zipymlite:// followed by link to open. • Download a zip file zipymlite://download/ followed by zip link to download.

Screenshots

Hode4 screens
Zipym Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hode at Free against Zipym Lite's $0.29. Hode also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 61%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). Zipym Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). On ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Hode is free to download; Zipym Lite costs $0.29 up front. Hode sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Zipym Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hode holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 49 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Hode's written reviews are positive against 61% of Zipym Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hode ships an update every 6 weeks, Zipym Lite every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Hode versus Zipym Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHodeZipym Lite
PriceFree — better$0.29
Rating4.8 (49 ratings) — better4.4 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews94.4% of reviews — better60.9% of reviews
Number of ratings49 — better23
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB119 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer浩 湛北京伊码网络科技有限公司

Customer experience

Hode

All ratings49 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.6%

Zipym Lite

All ratings23 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive60.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative34.8%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hode

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership$1.991 Month
  • Quarterly Membership$6.993 Months
One-time1
  • Permanent Membership$19.99
None

Zipym Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hode free?
Hode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zipym Lite free?
Zipym Lite costs $0.29, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hode or Zipym Lite?
Hode is rated higher. Hode averages 4.8 out of 5 from 49 ratings, while Zipym Lite averages 4.4 from 23 ratings.
Do Hode or Zipym Lite have ads?
Both Hode and Zipym Lite show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hode or Zipym Lite?
Hode ships an update every 6 weeks, and Zipym Lite every 10 days. Most recently, Hode was updated on September 5, 2026 and Zipym Lite on September 22, 2026.

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