Comparison

Hood vs Pantry

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

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Hood

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์ค‘๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ์ต๋ช… ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ, Hood Hood๋Š” ๋งŒ 14์„ธ ์ด์ƒ ์ค‘๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ํ•™๊ต ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—์„œ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ณ  ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์†Œ์…œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ํ•™๊ต๋ณ„ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ - ์†Œ์† ํ•™๊ต ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค๊ณผ๋งŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ - ํ•™๊ต ์ •๋ณด๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œ์‹œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ - ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•™๊ต ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง€๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ - ์ „๊ตญ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ค‘๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธ€๋“ค์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ™ˆ ํƒญ ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๊ธ€ ์ž‘์„ฑ - ํ…์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๊ธ€ - ํ•ด์‹œํƒœ๊ทธ๋กœ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๋ณ„ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๊ธ€ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ - ํ•™๊ต ํ‘œ์‹œ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ต๋ช…์„ฑ ๋ณด์žฅ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต - ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๊ธ€์— ๋Œ“๊ธ€๋กœ ์˜๊ฒฌ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ธฐ - ์ข‹์•„์š”๋กœ ๊ณต๊ฐ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ - ๋ถ๋งˆํฌ๋กœ ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ - ํ•™๊ต๋ณ„ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๊ธ€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ - ํ•ด์‹œํƒœ๊ทธ๋กœ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ณ„ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๊ธ€ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ - ์ œ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๊ธ€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์•Œ๋ฆผ - ๋‚ด ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๊ธ€์— ๋Œ“๊ธ€์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์•Œ๋ฆผ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ - ์ข‹์•„์š”์™€ ๋Œ“๊ธ€ ํ™œ๋™ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํ™•์ธ ์‰ฌ์šด ๊ณต์œ  - ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๊ธ€์„ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ธฐ - ๋งํฌ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ ๊น”๋”ํ•œ ๋””์ž์ธ - ๋‹คํฌ๋ชจ๋“œ ์ง€์›์œผ๋กœ ๋ˆˆ์˜ ํ”ผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œ - ์ง๊ด€์ ์ธ ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋กœ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉ - ํƒœ๋ธ”๋ฆฟ๊ณผ ํฐ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋œ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ˜• ๋””์ž์ธ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ - ์ž๋™ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ๊ฒ€์—ด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ์œ ์ง€ - ์‹ ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ๊ด€๋ฆฌ - ์ต๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ํ‘œํ˜„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๋Œ€์ƒ - ๋งŒ 14์„ธ ์ด์ƒ ์ค‘๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ - ํ•™๊ต ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—์„œ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ํ•™์ƒ - ์ต๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ํ•™์ƒ Hood์—์„œ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•™๊ต ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง€๊ณ , ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ์ต๋ช…์˜ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•จ ์†์—์„œ ์ง„์†”ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Pantry

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Some things can't go in the company chat. Pantry is an anonymous chat that only reaches people who are near you right now. Phones connect directly over Bluetooth. There is no server. There is no account. [How it works] โ€ข Create a room and set a passphrase โ€ข Show the QR code or send the link to a coworker โ€ข Only people who enter the same passphrase can read the room โ€ข Messages disappear after 24 hours [What it's for] - Things you wouldn't put in writing at work - Careful subjects: leaving, pay, reviews - The conversation that stays between you - Everything from lunch plans to office rumors [Being straight with you] Bluetooth only knows that someone is close by. It cannot tell which floor they are on, or whether they work with you. That is why rooms have a passphrase โ€” close by AND holding the passphrase. When few people are around, anonymity gets weak. Someone may guess who wrote what. We show the live count on screen so you can tell. Capture protection is a deterrent, not a block. We detect recording and mirroring and hide the chat, and we tell the whole room when a capture is detected. But no app can stop someone photographing your screen with a second phone. [How conversations end] - Messages: deleted after 24 hours - Rooms: gone after 3 quiet days - Uploaded to a server: nothing [Thermos โ€” keep only what you choose] Everything disappears by default. Turn on Thermos only for the chats worth keeping. - Only the conversations you pick are saved - Saved conversations open with device authentication - Never uploaded โ€” not to your employer, not to us - Delete all of it whenever you want [Privacy] - No server โ€” messages travel directly between phones - No sign-up โ€” no email, no phone number - No tracking โ€” no advertising identifier, no location [Subscription & Terms] - Thermos: USD 0.99 per month, auto-renewing monthly subscription - Renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; your Apple Account is charged on confirmation of purchase - Manage or cancel any time in your App Store settings - Privacy Policy: https://devjihwan.github.io/NearTalk_Privacy/privacy-policy.html - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hood4 screens
Pantry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hood at none against Pantry's 3. Hood also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Pantry's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Pantry sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Hood asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hood ships an update every 9 days, Pantry every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Hood versus Pantry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHoodPantry
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 8 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better16.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size37 MB11 MB
Age rating17+17+
Developereunyoung chaJIHWAN SEOK

In-app purchases

None

Hood

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Pantry

Subscriptions3
  • Thermos$0.991 Month
  • OffTalk Pro Subscription$2.991 Month
  • OffTalk Pro$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Hood free?
Hood is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pantry free?
Pantry is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hood or Pantry have ads?
Hood shows ads; Pantry does not.
Which is updated more often, Hood or Pantry?
Hood ships an update every 9 days, and Pantry every 8 days. Most recently, Hood was updated on October 10, 2026 and Pantry on October 19, 2026.

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