OffGrid vs Relay Secure Messenger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OffGrid
Communicate privately with end-to-end encrypted messaging. This app collects no user data, requires no personal information for signup, and prevents screenshots. A killswitch feature erases all conversations.
- End-to-end encryption
- No data collection
- No ads or trackers
- No screenshots
- Killswitch feature
- No personal info required
Read full descriptionHide full description
Your messages are never stored. Not with us. Not with you. Chat in real-time. • No phone number, email, or social • No data collection, no ads, no trackers • No screenshots or screen recordings • No access to your camera, contacts, or location Killswitch erases everything. End-to-end encrypted.
Relay Secure Messenger
This app offers a unique voice communication experience by transcribing speech on your device, encrypting it as text, and reconstructing it in your voice privately in real-time. It ensures conversations remain yours by never transmitting raw audio over the network.
- On-device speech transcription
- End-to-end encrypted text transmission
- Real-time voice reconstruction
- No raw audio transmission
- Private conversations
- Ad-free experience
Read full descriptionHide full description
Relay reimagines voice communication from the ground up. When you make a call on Relay, your voice never travels the network as audio. Speech is transcribed on your device, encrypted, and transmitted as text. On the other end, your words are reconstructed in your voice but privately, in real time. Your conversations stay yours. How it works? Speech is transcribed locally on your device. Text is encrypted end-to-end using the McNeal Protocol. Your cloned voice plays on the receiver's device. No raw audio ever leaves your phone. Built for people who mean it Whether you're protecting sensitive business conversations or simply believe your voice calls shouldn't be anyone else's business, Relay was built for you. What makes Relay different? Most encrypted apps protect your messages in transit. Relay goes further because the audio itself is never transmitted. There's nothing to intercept. End-to-end encrypted messaging. Voice calls without audio transmission. On-device speech processing. No ads. No data selling. Ever. Your calls. Your voice. Your terms.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: OffGrid at 5 against Relay Secure Messenger's 1. OffGrid also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 OffGrid against 5.0 for Relay Secure Messenger. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OffGrid has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OffGrid | Relay Secure Messenger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vetra Labs Inc. | Antonio Lambert |
Customer experience
OffGrid
Relay Secure Messenger
In-app purchases
OffGrid
No in-app purchases
Relay Secure Messenger
No in-app purchases
