Comparison

TXTcrypt vs Bifolio

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

Head to head
About

TXTcrypt

Easily encrypt and decrypt text messages, emails, and notes for secure communication. Share sensitive information with confidence, knowing only those with the correct password can read your messages. Works across mobile and desktop platforms for seamless interoperability.

Highlights
  • Encrypt and decrypt text
  • Secure messaging
  • Cross-platform compatibility
  • Password-based encryption
  • Unicode support
Features
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TXTcrypt is a general purpose text encryption application for sms/email/notes etc. focused on ease of use and interoperability between mobile and desktop versions. You can use it for text in any application , including text from the TXTcrypt desktop application. Say you want to send a sms that only someone knowing a password for it can understand , or just need to encrypt a conversation to hide it for prying eyes , now there is a easy way for that on a iphone. With TXTcrypt just enter your message and a password for it , now the encrypted message can only be decoded with that password , just tell it to someone , and send them message encrypted with it , they can use TXTcrypt to decode it. TXTcrypt works with any character set being unicode compliant , the encryption used is as strong as encryption export regulations allow , not military grade but namely RC4 with keys as big as 64bit depending on the length of your password as such providing a decent amount of security.

About

Bifolio

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Bifolio is a private journal that opens like a book. YOURS, AND SEALED What you write, and every photo, video, recording and drawing with it, is encrypted on your iPhone before it syncs to your iCloud. The keys travel between your devices in iCloud Keychain, and an optional recovery key of your own lets you back in if they can't. There is no Bifolio account, no server of ours and no tracking of any kind. Settings shows whether iCloud is up to date. YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS Bifolio never writes your entries. If a blank page is hard to start, it offers a question. Where Apple Intelligence is available, it can suggest questions drawn from your recent entries, worked out on your iPhone. Journaling Suggestions can start an entry from a moment your iPhone remembers, and Apple's Writing Tools are there when you want them. One switch in Settings turns all of it off. JOURNALS LIKE BOOKS Keep as many journals as you like, each a book on your shelf in its own cloth. Write as many entries a day as you want, and add photos (several at once, or straight from the camera), video, audio transcribed on your iPhone where your language is supported, and drawings or handwriting. Mark how you felt, and let Bifolio note where you were and the weather. An entry's own menu moves it to another journal or shares it. LOOK BACK Search everything you have written, even what you said in your recordings. The calendar marks the days you wrote, and On This Day brings back the same date in earlier years. YOURS TO TAKE WITH YOU Export everything, one journal or one day as a PDF, or as a ZIP of Markdown files with the original photos, video, audio and drawings. Share a single entry as a PDF. Bring journals in from Day One, Apple Journal or an earlier Bifolio export, and undo an import that wasn't what you wanted. A weekly backup can keep copies in a folder you choose. Exports and backups are plain files, not encrypted, and Bifolio says so wherever it makes one. QUIET BY DESIGN No streaks, no badges, no congratulations. A few lines is a full entry, and so is a single photograph. An optional daily reminder stays quiet on days you have already written. AROUND YOUR IPHONE Widgets for today, On This Day and the month, and a New Entry control for Control Center. Siri and Shortcuts can start an entry, open today, record audio or search. Lock the journal with Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode of its own: after several wrong passcodes it makes you wait, longer each time, and with the lock on, widgets never show what you wrote. AN OPEN BOOK ON IPHONE DUO Folded, Bifolio is a pocket journal for a quick note. Unfolded, it becomes a spread: your days on one side, the page you are writing on the other. Read your journal as a book and the crease becomes its spine, with two facing pages that turn like paper, one day after another. On other iPhones it is the same journal in a single, unhurried column. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TXTcrypt1 screens
Bifolio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: TXTcrypt at 3 against Bifolio's 1. TXTcrypt also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TXTcrypt versus Bifolio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTXTcryptBifolio
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS6.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVlad AlexaCanopus Labs Ltd

Bugs and requests

TXTcrypt

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Kicks user out of app after decrypting
  • Cannot decrypt text due to typos in password
  • Message sent failure
  • Crashes when setting a password
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  • Text field is empty after restarting the app

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add spell check support
  • Improve UI further
  • Update to stronger encryption (AES 256-bit)
  • Add Windows and web versions
  • More discrete app icon
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  • Password protection to load app
  • Allow sending directly from app
  • Allow 128-bit encryption or higher
  • Encryption algorithm options
  • Syncing setup for inviting contacts
  • Minimize keyboard after typing without pressing outside textbox
  • Password security prompt for typos
  • Support for encrypting Facebook messages
  • Bring back black screen option

Bifolio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

TXTcrypt

No in-app purchases

None

Bifolio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TXTcrypt free?
TXTcrypt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bifolio free?
Bifolio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TXTcrypt or Bifolio have ads?
Neither TXTcrypt nor Bifolio shows ads.

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