Comparison

youthisme vs Save by OpenArchive

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

Head to head
About

youthisme

This app offers a unique way to communicate privately by hiding messages within seemingly ordinary text. It uses patent-pending technology to make your digital communications secure and undetectable, ensuring only intended recipients can decode them.

Highlights
  • Private text messages
  • Secure emails
  • Hidden photo sharing
  • Undetectable social media posts
  • Patent-pending encryption technology
  • Messages hidden in plain sight
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YouThisMe® (UTM) is an innovative new technology that provides privacy in digital communications and postings on social media. The messages are hidden in plain sight and only the intended recipient(s) can decode them. YouThisMe® (‘UTM’) provides privacy in text messages, emails, sharing of photos and in postings to social media like Twitter and Facebook. The ease with which all of these everyday communications can be copied, eavesdropped, re-transmitted or compromised pose significant challenges to everyone’s privacy and security. Complete privacy requires encryption. Present methods make this cumbersome. And, the encrypted message itself signals that the communicating parties are engaged in secret communication. This attracts attention from hackers and others. The encrypted messages can be placed under surveillance. Privacy becomes a sham, until now. Using a patent pending technology, UTM converts messages and images into a new kind of text message, called UTM messages. These appear to be every day messages. However, only the intended recipient(s) can decode the message. It’s impossible to hack UTM messages back to the original. A UTM message has no content that reveals the original message. As well, UTM messages draw no attention: they look and feel like the normal, casual mundane communications that fill the Internet. UTM makes privacy on the Web easy. NOTE: This App requires a subscription. YouThisMe® (UTM) PRICING AND TERMS *Service: YouThisMe® 99-cent Monthly Subscription. This subscription gives users unlimited messaging, emails and posting each month. *Length of Subscription: Monthly *Price of this Subscription: 99-cents/Month *Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. *Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. *Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. *Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. *No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. YouThisMe® is a registered trademark of UThisMe, LLC. For more information: Terms of Use - http://prod.youthisme.com/Home/RulesOfUse Privacy Policy - https://prod.youthisme.com/Home/Privacy

About

Save by OpenArchive

This app allows users to securely archive and organize their mobile media. It provides tools for uploading, editing metadata, and sharing content to private servers or the Internet Archive, ensuring long-term preservation and control.

Highlights
  • Upload media to private servers or Internet Archive
  • Edit media metadata (location, notes)
  • Flag media as 'significant'
  • Batch edit media metadata
  • Organize media into project albums
  • Share to Save from other apps
  • Wi-Fi-only upload setting
  • Creative Commons licensing options
Features
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Save by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media. Designed with and for individuals and organizations working to securely archive media directly from their mobile devices to a server, Save keeps you in control of your media at all times. Features •⁠ ⁠Upload any type of media to a private server or directly to the Internet Archive •⁠ ⁠Edit media metadata, including location and additional notes •⁠ ⁠Flag media as “significant” for organization and/or easy retrieval later •⁠ ⁠Batch edit media — update the metadata of multiple media files at once •⁠ ⁠Create multiple project albums to keep your media organized (e.g. “Summer 2019,” “Workshop photos,” “Kitchen remodel,” etc) •⁠ ⁠Share to Save from other apps on your phone, such as your Photos or voice memos apps •⁠ ⁠“Wi-Fi-only” upload setting, for when cellular data networks are unreliable or expensive •⁠ ⁠Creative Commons licensing options for the media you collect and share •⁠ ⁠Uninterrupted uploads using a foreground service Benefits Preserve Upload your important mobile media to a private server of your choice (using a free and open source platform like Nextcloud or ownCloud). Publish the media publicly to the Internet Archive for resilient, robust preservation by a third-party. Organize Create custom-named Projects to keep your media sorted in ways that make sense to you. Add helpful notes, location, and other contextual information one by one or in bulk. Enable findability and organization with folders in the app that correspond to your own private server. Share Connect to existing project albums created and managed by partners and colleagues. Send media to the Save app from your camera roll and other applications. Secure Save always uses TLS encryption, which encrypts the connection between your mobile device and your chosen destination, whether a private server or the Internet Archive. Save works with server software like Nextcloud that makes it easy to encrypt the data you’ve collected. Help & Support OpenArchive’s FAQ - https://open-archive.org/faq/ Contact us at info[at]open-archive[dot]org About OpenArchive is a team of technologists, ethnographers, and archivists committed to helping people easily preserve and organize their mobile media. We create intuitive, privacy-first decentralized archiving tools and educational resources to preserve history. About Save Save is an intuitive, privacy-first decentralized mobile archiving app that helps people preserve their mobile media for the long term. It offers users greater control over their media by providing tools for authentication, verification, privacy, licensing, and flexible storage options for long-term access and reuse. Save addresses the gaps in the current online ecosystem existing around the a) ethical short-term collection and b) long term preservation of sensitive mobile media. We provide mobile-centered, scalable, industry-standard, ethical, intuitive, easy to use tools for at-risk communities to pseudonymously preserve and authenticate their media so that it will be accessible and maintain its provenance in the future. Links Terms of Service: https://open-archive.org/privacy/#terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://open-archive.org/privacy/#privacy-policy

Screenshots

youthisme4 screens
Save by OpenArchive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Save by OpenArchive at free against youthisme's subscription. Save by OpenArchive also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 4). youthisme's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). 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

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

youthisme holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 14 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

youthisme ships an update every 5 weeks, Save by OpenArchive every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
youthisme versus Save by OpenArchive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteryouthismeSave by OpenArchive
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better4.3 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings414 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB26 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperUThisMe, LLCOpenArchive LLC

Customer experience

youthisme

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

Save by OpenArchive

All ratings14 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

youthisme

No in-app purchases

None

Save by OpenArchive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is youthisme free?
youthisme is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Save by OpenArchive free?
Save by OpenArchive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, youthisme or Save by OpenArchive?
youthisme is rated higher. youthisme averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Save by OpenArchive averages 4.3 from 14 ratings.
Do youthisme or Save by OpenArchive have ads?
Neither youthisme nor Save by OpenArchive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, youthisme or Save by OpenArchive?
youthisme ships an update every 5 weeks, and Save by OpenArchive every 2 months. Most recently, youthisme was updated on November 1, 2026 and Save by OpenArchive on November 3, 2026.

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