Comparison

SecureZIP Reader vs Protect My Choices

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

Head to head
About

SecureZIP Reader

Access and view compressed and encrypted files from cloud storage and email. Securely extract sensitive data using passphrases or digital certificates on your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Extract and view ZIP files
  • Decrypt encrypted files
  • Integrates with cloud storage
  • Supports passphrases and digital certificates
  • Open files in other apps
  • Browse ZIP file contents
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Now you can extract and view your ZIP and encrypted/secured sensitive files from email, Dropbox, Box.Net or other cloud providers! SecureZIP Reader for iOS combines ZIP decompression and decryption to deliver a data-centric security solution that protects data as it moves from the desktop to the cloud to the mobile device. Ensure security using passphrases or x.509 digital certificates. PKWARE SecureZIP Reader Top Features: •Quickly and securely open and extract files or open with the included viewer, or 3rd party viewer of choice •Simple to use with DropBox, Box.Net, Sugarsync and any other cloud provider for securing content throughout the cloud •Browse and review the contents of your ZIP files •Open SecureZIP files with a passphrase or digital certificate •Open the contents of ZIP files in associated apps •Open ZIP files from Mail •Open ZIP files from the web or cloud •Support for .ZIP .ZIPX and SFX compression SecureZIP allows you to extract the following file types, and more: •Photo and video formats •Text file formats •Office file formats •PDFs and much more As the creator of the ZIP file format, PKZIP and SecureZIP; PKWARE is building on its reputation of continuous innovation with the release of SecureZIP Reader for both personal and enterprise/business use. For enterprise and business customers, the PKWARE SecureZIP Reader is one of the first enterprise apps for iOS that provides the ability to open compressed files (.zip .zipx and many other formats) that are secured using passphrase or certificate-based encryption (PKI, x.509 certificate). This allows you to easily receive enterprise sensitive data on your iPhone or iPad without concern. For personal use, SecureZIP Reader provides a free, fully functional, simple to use app to open and extract your files to use them, on your mobile device. Have a friend sending you sensitive files? The sender can password protect and encrypt them before sending to you, knowing you are able to open and view the files. SecureZIP Reader for iOS was created by PKWARE, a company with a 30-year track record of helping customers compress and secure their corporate data and personal information across mobile, desktop, server and mainframe computing platforms and in physical, virtual and cloud environments. For more information, visit us at www.pkware.com --------------- Keywords: file manager, password, passphrase, certificate, explorer, compress, archive, uncompress, zip, winzip, pkware, tar.gz, send, share, aes, encryption, encrypt, decrypt, decryption, pkzip, androzip, phil katz, zip file, securezip, reader, .509, x.509, .ZIP, zipx, .zipx, sfx, .sfx, digital certificates, file security, cloud security

About

Protect My Choices

This browser extension helps maintain your opt-out preferences for interest-based advertising set through the Digital Advertising Alliance's WebChoices tool. It prevents accidental deletion of choice-storing cookies and extends support beyond cookies for greater privacy control.

Highlights
  • Preserves opt-out choices
  • Prevents cookie deletion
  • Supports non-cookie-based signals
  • Works with WebChoices tool
  • Extends privacy control
Features
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The AdChoices Protect My Choices (PMC) extension helps preserve the opt-out choices you set on the Digital Advertising Alliance's WebChoices consumer choice tool. The WebChoices tool uses cookies to store the choices you make on some browsers, and the PMC is designed to prevent the accidental deletion of those cookies. New features in the PMC 2.0 (beta) extends your choices beyond cookies, so companies can honor your choices and preferences via a browser-based signal that does not require third-party cookies. Some Things You Should Know • The Protect My Choices extension will not block ads. • Protect My Choices applies to the choices and preferences made through the WebChoices tool, which apply to interest-based advertising and other applicable uses of data by DAA participating companies. Once you install the extension, you will still receive other types of online advertising from participating companies, and the websites you visit may still collect information for other purposes, consistent with DAA Principles. • As more companies join the DAA’s industry self-regulatory program, their opt-outs will be added to the Protect My Choices browser extensions. We suggest you pin the extension to your browser. Industry support for the new features will change over time as more and more companies adopt technology for responding to non-cookie-based choices and preferences. Please visit the Protect My Choices Extension periodically to review your choices or to update your choices to include new participating companies. • The DAA program requires participating companies to clearly inform consumers about their data collection practices and to enable consumers to exercise control for interest-based ads. The DAA’s choice tools (WebChoices, Protect My Choices, YourAdChoices Token Tool, and AppChoices) serve as central elements of the program by offering consumers transparency around companies engaged in interest-based advertising and the ability to exercise choice from participating companies through a consistent, simple user experience. • These extensions and your choices and preferences apply only in the specific browser in which they were set or installed, so you should separately set your preferences for other browsers and for other devices you may use. • The DAA tools use a short-duration first-party cookie (i.e. a cookie set by the website you are visiting) to allow the PMC to read and store your requests. Thus, first-party cookies must be supported by your browser for the PMC to read any choices or preferences made using our tools. First-party cookies are standard for all major browsers, unless you have customized your settings. Please note that the first-party cookie expires within seven days, please install the PMC as soon as possible. • Installing the PMC without expressing your choices through DAA tools will not transmit or make those choices or preferences available to companies. Deleting, uninstalling or not updating the PMC may result in your requests not being readable. If you are updating from PMC 1.0 to PMC 2, prior selections will be automatically imported. • The use of these browser extensions is governed by the Terms of Use and their individual licenses.

Screenshots

SecureZIP Reader4 screens
Protect My Choices4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SecureZIP Reader at 69% against Protect My Choices's 18%. Protect My Choices's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months). 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

Protect My Choices holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Protect My Choices has 34 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of SecureZIP Reader's written reviews are positive against 18% of Protect My Choices's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SecureZIP Reader ships an update every 7 months, Protect My Choices fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SecureZIP Reader versus Protect My Choices: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSecureZIP ReaderProtect My Choices
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (5 ratings)4.0 (34 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.0% of reviews — better18.2% of reviews
Number of ratings534 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPKWARE, Inc.Digital Advertising Alliance

Customer experience

SecureZIP Reader

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive69.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative31.0%

Protect My Choices

All ratings34 ratings
Positive76.5%
Neutral5.9%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative81.8%

In-app purchases

None

SecureZIP Reader

No in-app purchases

None

Protect My Choices

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SecureZIP Reader free?
SecureZIP Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Protect My Choices free?
Protect My Choices is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SecureZIP Reader or Protect My Choices?
Protect My Choices is rated higher. SecureZIP Reader averages 3.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Protect My Choices averages 4.0 from 34 ratings.
Do SecureZIP Reader or Protect My Choices have ads?
Neither SecureZIP Reader nor Protect My Choices shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SecureZIP Reader or Protect My Choices?
SecureZIP Reader ships an update every 7 months, and Protect My Choices fortnightly. Most recently, SecureZIP Reader was updated on September 3, 2026 and Protect My Choices on September 23, 2026.

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