BabelApp vs Typhos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BabelApp
This app provides secure, end-to-end encrypted messaging and VoIP calling for personal and enterprise use. It allows for the secure exchange of documents and files across multiple platforms, ensuring privacy and protection from external threats.
- End-to-end encrypted communication
- Secure VoIP calling
- File and document sharing
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Enterprise integration options
- AES and Diffie-Hellman cryptography
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BabelApp is a secure messaging and VoIP calling enterprise strength platform for end-to-end encrypted communication. It enables calling, messaging, attaching and sending of documents and files securely – and all cross-platform. BabelApp is a must have for anyone wanting peace of mind when it comes to the security of their communication and who needs to keep their communication safe and protected from outside threats, from simple eavesdropping to sophisticated industrial espionage - BabelApp got you covered. Anyone and everyone in your surroundings – yourself included – can become a target of a mobile communication attack. Loved ones or business partners can then get caught up is the ensuing fray. The reasons why may vary – industrial espionage, divorce proceedings, insurance claim investigations, tabloid media intrusion… the list goes on. What matters though, is that your personal or business privacy can become compromised. Security experts are seeing mobile attacks in the millions yearly, with a recent survey indicating that 68% of CIOs and risk and compliance leaders agreeing that mobile devices were the weakest link in their security framework. BabelApp deals with this issue effectively and delivers the required security. BabelApp simplifies the encrypted transmission of your sensitive communication, documents and information, be they contracts, plans, scans or images, both work related and personal, while at the same time ensuring complete privacy and data protection. If needed, BabelApp can be easily connected to almost any information system, be it small or enterprise level. BabelApp also has an easy to install and use plug-and-play solution, the Babelbox, delivering enterprise-level secure communication in minutes for multiple accounts, if you do not have an in-house IT department. Designed to meet the most demanding international end-to-end encryptions security requirements for data and information, BabelApp is THE secure solution for personal or enterprise level communication. Use BabelApp and communicate with your colleagues and business partners via encrypted calls, messages, images, videos and other attachments to protect your intellectual property and trade secrets. ********* BabelApp ********* HIGHEST LEVEL OF SECURITY: • A 100% in-house solution – no third party servers, everything located and running on your own systems – even in the Cloud • Strong end-to-end cryptography • AES and Diffie-Helman algorithms ENTERPRISE UTILIZATION: • Supports Active Directory synchronization • Cross-platform • Can be use for administration of MDM applications • Can be integrated with copier/printer/scanners for secure sending of copied / scanned documents EASY TO USE: • Minimalistic and clean design and UI • Efficient and fast communication¨ • Easy deployment
Typhos
This secure messaging app offers end-to-end encrypted text, image, audio, and video messages, along with encrypted voice and video calls. It prioritizes user privacy with features like self-destructing messages and anonymous logins using a unique code, not a phone number.
- End-to-end encrypted messaging
- Encrypted voice and video calls
- Self-destructing messages
- Anonymous login with unique code
- Cross-platform compatibility
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Typhos is a cross-platform messaging app that focuses on privacy and security from the ground up. Typhos sends encrypted text, image, audio, and video messages to individuals and groups. It can also be used for encrypted user-to-user and group phone calls between Typhos mobile users. Our patented encryption technology ensures that messages are securely going where they are intended, and our privacy pledge ensures that no one is harvesting your information along the way. - Secure Chat ensures a secure text-messaging user experience. Typhos uses advanced encryption methods to ensure your messages are never received by anyone other than those for whom they are intended. End-to-End Encryption with our seamless encryption process ensures that messages stay protected from start to finish. - Self-Destructing Messages allow users to send messages that automatically delete themselves. This ensures messages are fully erased from all chats when the self-destruct countdown sequence completes. - Complete Encryption by default allows all chats, video, and voice calls to be safe, secure, and private all the time. Only the senders and recipients can view messages/calls. - Avatar and PIN ensure you are completely anonymous. We do not ask you for your name, or mobile number, and we have simplified the login process by not asking for a complicated password. Typhos uses a random User Unique Code (UUC), so you never have to worry about your information being compromised or attached to your phone number. Privacy policy: https://castle-shield.com/document/typhos/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://castle-shield.com/document/typhos/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Typhos at 5.0 against BabelApp's 4.0. BabelApp's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. BabelApp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Typhos sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Typhos holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
BabelApp ships an update monthly, Typhos every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 6, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BabelApp | Typhos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OKsystem a.s. | Castle Shield Holdings |
Customer experience
BabelApp
Typhos
In-app purchases
BabelApp
- Automated key verification$0.99
Typhos
- Typhos Monthly$11.991 Month
- Typhos Consumer Plan$7.99







