Polyguard Mobile vs Scan + Match
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Polyguard Mobile
This app provides real-time identity verification for video calls and meetings, ensuring participants are who they claim to be. It's designed for businesses to prevent fraud and enhance trust in remote communication, especially during hiring and sensitive discussions.
- Real-time identity verification
- Prevent interview fraud
- Verify participant identity
- Secure sensitive information
- Proof of attendance for audits
- Biometric data stays on device
- End-to-end encryption
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Prove Yourself. Without Compromise. When you apply for a job, join a high-stakes call, or contact a help desk, the other side now has to wonder whether you're real. Synthetic faces, stolen profiles, and imposter applicants have made everyone suspicious of everyone. Polyguard fixes that for you. Instead of leaving you to be second-guessed or lumped in with fraudsters, it helps you prove you're a real, verified human before the conversation even starts. Verify Once, Trusted Everywhere Each Polyguard proof, from a simple device integrity check to a full government identity document scan, only needs to be done once. Your proofs stay bound to your phone's secure hardware, and are never uploaded. From then on, proving you're you takes just seconds, wherever you go. Where It Matters + When you apply for a job: Sail past fraud screening that snags everyone else. You prove you're a real, authorized applicant up front, so you never get mistaken for an imposter or a sanctioned account. + When you join a meeting or interview: Show your proven identity and authentic location before the conversation starts, so the people on the other side know it's really you and you can get straight to business. + When you call a help desk: Skip the security-question runaround. Give instant proof of who you are before a reset, escalation, or access request, and get what you need without the friction. How It Works + Quickly verify your device, just once. + When identity matters, respond to a secure Polyguard prompt by link, QR, or in-flow request. + Your identity is confirmed in seconds. + The other side gets instant, tamper-proof confirmation that you're a verified human… not copies of your personal data. You don’t need an account with Polyguard or anyone else to use this app, and there’s no complex setup. Privacy by Design Polyguard is built on zero-trust principles, for people who treat consent and control as non-negotiable. + Hardware-backed identity proofs + No tracking, no profiling, no persistent identifiers + Compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and other global privacy standards + If you choose to complete a full document verification, your biometric data stays on your phone, encrypted and where you can control it Recognized By + Fast-scaling startups and regulated enterprises + Recruiting agencies and staffing platforms + Wealth managers, law firms, and M&A teams + Defense, aerospace, and critical infrastructure Detection has peaked. As generative models improve, every tool that tries to spot fakes degrades, and real people get caught in the dragnet alongside the fakes. Prevention doesn't play that game. By proving your real identity and authentic location at the moments that matter, Polyguard takes you out of the suspect pool entirely.
Scan + Match
This app scans special biometric barcodes containing personal data from documents like driver's licenses and passports. It matches encoded faces, provides a match level, and verifies digital signatures to ensure data integrity.
- Scan UR Codes
- Match encoded face data
- Provide Face Match Level
- Validate Digital Signatures
- Verify personal info immutability
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Scanner for UR Codes (Special biometric barcodes) that can contain data from Driver Licenses, Passports, Credit Cards, and many other documents. This App allows you to Match the encoded face data in the UR Code to another face and provides a Face Match Level and validates the Digital Signature that proves the immutability of the personal info stored in the barcode. For more information on UR Codes, their capabilities and for the ability to encode them visit: http://URCodes.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Scan + Match at 3 against Polyguard Mobile's 1. Scan + Match also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Polyguard Mobile against 5.0 for Scan + Match. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 7 respectively.
Polyguard Mobile ships an update every 2 weeks, Scan + Match every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Polyguard Mobile | Scan + Match |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Polyguard | FaceTec, Inc. |
Customer experience
Polyguard Mobile
Scan + Match
In-app purchases
Polyguard Mobile
No in-app purchases
Scan + Match
No in-app purchases
Questions
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