Comparison

Hush Secret Text vs Network

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

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Hush Secret Text

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Encrypt text and files on your device using a shared secret. Hush requires no account and provides no message server. Share the encrypted result through an app or destination you choose. NEW IN 4.0 Search your Message Ledger by label or stored message text and filter encrypted or plaintext entries. Export an encrypted ledger backup through Files, then import it with a preview and confirmation before replacing your saved messages. The backup uses your chosen secret; Hush cannot recover a forgotten secret. Saved messages and templates are no longer silently removed when their libraries reach capacity. Unreadable originals are preserved instead of overwritten. Template recovery can preserve the original and start a new library, with an unencrypted recovery-data export for troubleshooting. TEXT AND FILE TOOLS Encrypt and decrypt secret text, save reusable plaintext templates, manage named device-only Keychain secrets, create QR codes for supported message sizes, verify shared secrets, and use dual-message packages. Optional app locking uses device authentication. Clipboard copies can expire after your selected delay and stay local to this device. Sealed Bundles protects several files in one authenticated encrypted package. Open Sealed Bundles, select files and enter a strong secret. Reopen and authenticate the whole bundle before preparing recovered files for sharing. Bundles are not ZIP archives. Single-file encryption and decryption are also available. WHAT TO KNOW Decrypted ledger entries and templates are stored locally as plaintext. Ledger backups encrypt the exported file, not the local library. Backups contain ledger entries only, not Keychain secrets, templates or file bundles. Restore replaces the entire ledger and preserves the previous local value. Limits: 50 ledger entries, 100 KB per entry and 1 MB per backup; 30 templates. Single-file and photo imports support up to 100 MB. Bundles support 1โ€“12 files totaling up to 20 MB of original data. New HUSH2 text and HUSHF2 file packages use AES-256-GCM and PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 with 600,000 iterations; older supported formats remain readable. Recipient expiry and burn-after-reading instructions rely on compatible Hush behavior. They cannot prevent screenshots, copied text, exported packages or device-clock changes. Clipboard expiration cannot remove text already pasted elsewhere. Recovered file exports are ordinary independent files; clearing a workspace is not guaranteed secure erasure and does not remove shared copies. iPhone and iPad. No subscription or account required.

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Network

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Network Doctor finds out why your home network feels slow โ€” and shows the evidence behind every conclusion. WHAT IT MEASURES Every check runs a fixed, deterministic sequence: idle latency, latency under load in both directions (bufferbloat), request loss, time-boxed saturation download and upload throughput, and server-assisted path MTU โ€” which detects the reductions typical of DS-Lite and PPPoE lines. ROUTER INTELLIGENCE, NO CREDENTIALS NEEDED Network Doctor auto-detects FRITZ!Box, Telekom Speedport, Vodafone Station/EasyBox, O2 HomeBox, and any UPnP-capable router. It classifies your line as native dual stack, DS-Lite, carrier-grade NAT, or double NAT from the WAN address, reads the line sync rates, and compares them with the Wi-Fi throughput it actually measured: your line delivers 100, your WLAN delivers 31. FRITZ!BOX DEEP EVIDENCE (OPTIONAL) With optional credentials โ€” strictly read-only โ€” Network Doctor maps your mesh: which repeater serves your phone, the backhaul medium and its bottleneck rate (Wi-Fi, Ethernet, or Powerline, including devolo), 100-Mbit cable detection, channel utilization, and topology loops. FINDINGS YOU CAN CHECK Every finding names the measurements behind it and states a confidence. Typical findings: weak mesh backhaul, bufferbloat, congested channel, recurring evening losses, double NAT. GUIDED A/B TESTS Is it your home network or your provider? Compare WLAN against cellular. Is it coverage? Compare where you are against next-to-router. SAFE REMEDIATION Every suggested change comes with a preview and a rollback path, is confirmed explicitly, and is validated by the next measurement: resolved, improved, unchanged, or regressed. Router access is strictly read-only โ€” Network Doctor never changes router settings. HISTORY AND TRENDS Every check is stored locally, with trends and per-room sparklines. History-based rules catch patterns a single check misses, such as losses that recur every evening. PRIVACY Local-first by design: no account, no tracking, no third-party SDKs, and a privacy manifest. Optional cloud analysis (Claude) is off by default, never sends network names or addresses, and the exact payload can be previewed in the app before anything leaves your device. A support report can be exported via the share sheet. A NOTE ON LANGUAGE Network Doctor is developed German-first. The user interface is available in English, but the diagnostic finding texts currently appear in German. Requires iOS 18 or later. For iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Hush Secret Text4 screens
Network4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hush Secret Text at $2.99 against Network's $4.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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

Hush Secret Text costs $2.99 and Network $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Hush Secret Text versus Network: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHush Secret TextNetwork
Price$2.99 โ€” better$4.99
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert CorbinKonrad Kern

In-app purchases

None

Hush Secret Text

No in-app purchases

None

Network

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hush Secret Text free?
Hush Secret Text costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Network free?
Network costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hush Secret Text or Network have ads?
Neither Hush Secret Text nor Network shows ads.

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