Silent Phone vs NordLayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silent Phone
This app offers secure, end-to-end encrypted voice, video, and messaging for businesses. Protect sensitive communications and intellectual property with advanced privacy features. Facilitate confident global collaboration for your team.
- End-to-end encrypted voice, video, and messaging
- Secure conference calling and group messaging
- Burn commands and timers to destroy messages
- Secure file sharing
- Zero-touch deployment
- Integrated enterprise user management
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Silent Phone provides enterprise-grade encrypted voice, video, and messaging. Our end-to-end security protects your business, its reputation, and its valuable intellectual property from spying eyes. With Silent Phone, your team can discuss important matters across continents with the same confidence as if you were all in the same room. Silent Phone is developed by Silent Circle, the world leader in enterprise privacy solutions. Features: - Privacy and security trusted by businesses and governments around the world - Simple "zero-touch" deployment across your organization - Integrated enterprise user management with Silent Manager - Secure voice and video calls with our unique Security Words - Secure high-definition conference calling and group messaging - Burn commands destroy all copies of sent messages - Burn timers automatically redact old messages - Voice memos speed communication and replace insecure voicemail - Read receipts and delivery receipts give your teams situational awareness - Securely send documents, videos, images, and other files - Silent World offers calling to/from traditional phone numbers with enhanced security - Standards-compliant Single Sign-On (SSO) - Scheduled training available for your teams
NordLayer
This business tool offers flexible and easy-to-implement cybersecurity solutions for organizations of any size. It focuses on secure remote access and sensitive data transmission, simplifying network access security with a user-friendly interface and quick deployment.
- Flexible cybersecurity tools
- Secure remote access
- Easy deployment
- Intuitive interface
- Cross-OS compatibility
- Scalable solutions
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NordLayer provides flexible and easy-to-implement cybersecurity tools for businesses of any size or work model developed by the standard of NordVPN. We help organizations of all sizes to resolve sensitive data access and transmission challenges by providing a modern secure remote access solution focused on the Security Service Edge of cybersecurity services. Network access security made simple Easy to Start - Deployment under ten minutes - Step-by-step guidelines, onboarding content, and 24/7 available expert support - Simple and intuitive interface for end-users and administrators Easy to Combine - All popular OS versions are supported - Browser extension and manual configuration available - Compatible with existing cybersecurity solutions Easy to Scale - No limits on servers - Easy and instant member, server, or feature activations with a few clicks - Azure provisioning and Okta support for convenient user management
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Silent Phone at 3.7 against NordLayer's 2.7. Silent Phone also leads on review sentiment (42% vs 13%) and device support (3 vs 1). NordLayer's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Silent Phone holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 92 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Silent Phone's written reviews are positive against 13% of NordLayer's.
Silent Phone ships an update every 3 months, NordLayer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Silent Phone | NordLayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (92 ratings) — better | 2.7 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.4% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 92 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Silent Circle, LLC | Nordvpn S.A. |
Customer experience
Silent Phone
NordLayer
Bugs and requests
Silent Phone
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes on launch with iOS updates
- Login credentials not accepted after reinstall
- Text input display issues (text cut off or invisible)
- Messages not delivered despite showing as delivered
- Call audio problems (no sound, distorted audio)
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- App crashes when sending text messages
- Background process doesn't work reliably
- Incoming calls show busy signal after 30-90 minutes of inactivity
- App disappears/closes immediately after opening
- Incompatibility with latest iOS versions
- Notifications not arriving properly
- Video conferencing section missing or non-functional
- Media attachment sharing failures
- App freezes during connection establishment
- Billing notification popups appearing unexpectedly
- Balance information removed from app interface
Requested features
18 requests- Account creation option directly in app
- Group messaging/texting capability
- Multiple simultaneous accounts support
- In-app credit balance display
- Voicemail functionality
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- Desktop/computer version
- Apple Watch notifications
- In-app subscription payment via App Store
- Wired ethernet connection support
- Screenshot notification alerts
- Passcode/PIN app lock
- Touch ID/biometric authentication
- Better contact management integration
- Ability to turn off read receipts
- Manual key reset option
- CallKit integration for native iOS experience
- Background push notification improvements
- Landscape orientation support on tablets
NordLayer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Silent Phone
No in-app purchases
NordLayer
No in-app purchases
