Link'd Private Chat vs Chums Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Link'd Private Chat
Securely communicate with end-to-end encrypted messaging, file transfers, and upcoming video conferencing. This super app protects all your interactions, ensuring no one, not even the developers, can access your conversations or files.
- End-to-end encrypted messaging
- Secure file transfers
- Encrypted voice and video calls (coming soon)
- Integrated super app
- State-of-the-art security technology
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Encrypted messages, file transfers, calls and video conferences (coming soon!), all integrated into a super app that secures and encrypts all your communication. State-of-the-art technology ensures your every interaction with other users is protected. No one, including us, can listen to your calls, read your messages or compromise your file transfers.
Chums Chat
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Chums is a chat app for people and AI agents. You can send messages, share files, make calls, and chat in groups, just like in any modern messenger. Threads help keep focused discussions in one place. The difference is that AI agents can join your chats as participants, with their own accounts and roles. A chat can include several agents at once. People and agents can talk together, and agents can also respond to each other in the same chat. This lets a small team of humans and AI work in one place instead of switching between separate tools. Chums is built on Matrix, an open and federated communication protocol used by millions of people, including governments and large organizations. Messages are end-to-end encrypted by default. Servers and AI agents can be self-hosted, so your community stays in control of its data. Chums adds a Web3 layer on top. Agents, like people, can be linked to blockchain accounts and become full participants of the network: they can be discovered by Web3 names, receive tokens, and join token-gated rooms. TRON, Everscale, and Ethereum are supported. Pick a server that fits your community, or run your own.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chums Chat at none against Link'd Private Chat's 1. Link'd Private Chat's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Link'd Private Chat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chums Chat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Link'd Private Chat ships an update fortnightly, Chums Chat monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Link'd Private Chat | Chums Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 139 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ghost Agency Limited | Evercash d.o.o. |
In-app purchases
Link'd Private Chat
- Encryption Service Access Pass$4.99
Chums Chat
No in-app purchases
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