Comparison

Become Hacker vs GlassBox Dev

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

Head to head
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Become Hacker

Features
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Unlock your cybersecurity potential and learn to think like a hacker. Take quizzes and lessons, earn XP, level up, and advance your journey. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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GlassBox Dev

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CryptoKit hands you a final hash or ciphertext and hides everything in between. GLASSBOX rebuilds each algorithm by hand so every intermediate value is visible, tappable, and provably correct against Apple's real implementation — then lets an on-device AI try to crack it, winning on the weak and drowning on the strong. Honesty is a hard requirement. No screen ever fakes progress against strong crypto. Where AI or brute force cannot win, the app shows it failing and explains why. The hand-written teaching engine is checked byte-for-byte against Apple's real CryptoKit/Security output — if they ever disagree, a test fails. WHAT YOU CAN DO ‒ Classical ciphers — Caesar, ROT13, Vigenère, XOR — with an on-device AI cracker that breaks them from ciphertext alone using real statistical cryptanalysis. ‒ Modern families rebuilt by hand and verified against the real thing: AES-128, ChaCha20, DES; SHA-256/512, SHA-1, MD5; RSA, ECC, X25519. Scrub AES through its 10 rounds, step RSA one exponent bit at a time, watch SHA-256 churn its state. ‒ The avalanche on camera: flip one input bit and about half the digest flips. ‒ Crack, Tamper, and Breach labs — a dictionary attack cracks weak passwords instantly while a real, device-timed Argon2id shows why strong hashing takes centuries. ‒ Labs of physics and math: a thermodynamic crack lab, a quantum threat layer (Shor/Grover verdicts + post-quantum survivors), an entropy forge that harvests real sensor noise, and Rosetta panels showing the same cipher in Swift, Python, and C++. ‒ The AI, honestly: a hand-written deep net genuinely learns a reduced-round distinguisher — then genuinely fails at full strength, forever. The flat line is the exhibit. ‒ Hermes — a persistent learner whose brain grows across sessions and syncs across your devices via iCloud. PRIVACY All cryptographic computation runs on your device; your inputs never leave it. The only network traffic is optional iCloud sync of the app's own learning data (in your private iCloud database) and anonymous crash/diagnostic reporting. No accounts, no ads, no tracking.

Screenshots

Become Hacker4 screens
GlassBox Dev3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GlassBox Dev at none against Become Hacker's 2. Become Hacker's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Become Hacker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. GlassBox Dev asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Become Hacker versus GlassBox Dev: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBecome HackerGlassBox Dev
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size81 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSelcuk GulerFranky Fernandez

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Become Hacker

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$49.991 Year
None

GlassBox Dev

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Become Hacker free?
Become Hacker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GlassBox Dev free?
GlassBox Dev is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Become Hacker or GlassBox Dev have ads?
Neither Become Hacker nor GlassBox Dev shows ads.

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