Comparison

Protect My Choices vs Cipher Key

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

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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.

About

Cipher Key

Features
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Security you don’t have to memorize. Most password generators create strings of characters that are impossible to type and even harder to remember. CipherKey takes a different approach, focusing on high-entropy passwords that make sense to humans but are a nightmare for hackers. The Signature Feature: Memory Mode The biggest pain point of security is forgetting your own keys. Memory Mode solves this by combining real English words with symbols and numbers. The result is a passphrase that is easy to visualize and type on a mobile keyboard, but mathematically impossible to brute-force. Expand Your Vocabulary: We pull from a library of thousands of words. We occasionally include rare words to boost security. Learn While You Lock: Not sure what a word means? CipherKey displays the definition right in the generator. Improve your vocabulary while you secure your digital life. Dual-Mode Generation Memory Mode: Human-friendly, word-based passphrases for your most-used accounts. Classic Mode: High-randomness alphanumeric strings for maximum-security vault keys. Built to Your Specs The 12-32 Range: Stay within the security sweet spot—long enough to be unhackable, but short enough to fit any site’s requirements. Deep Customization: Toggle symbols, numbers, and casing with a single tap to meet specific website rules. Grounded Security Native Encryption: We use the device’s own secure systems (Keychain) to ensure no one can read your passwords but you. On-Device Only: Your passwords never leave your phone. We do not have servers, so we cannot see your data. Biometric App Lock: Keep snoopers out by enabling a mandatory fingerprint or FaceID scan every time the app opens. Pure Experience No Ads: We believe security tools should be clean and distraction-free. No Tracking: We do not collect your data or monitor your usage. No Subscriptions: All features are available without recurring fees.

Screenshots

Protect My Choices4 screens
Cipher Key3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cipher Key at 13.0 against Protect My Choices's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Protect My Choices versus Cipher Key: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProtect My ChoicesCipher Key
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (92 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews18.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings92 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Advertising AllianceBerat Kaplan

In-app purchases

None

Protect My Choices

No in-app purchases

None

Cipher Key

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Protect My Choices free?
Protect My Choices is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cipher Key free?
Cipher Key is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Protect My Choices or Cipher Key have ads?
Neither Protect My Choices nor Cipher Key shows ads.

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