Hush Secret Text vs Bars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
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 1โ12 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.
Bars
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Bars puts every limit you pay for on one screen: your AI plans, your API and cloud bills, your phone's data plan and your proxy's monthly bandwidth. One bar each, filling left to right, so the one closest to its limit is obvious at a glance. AI, CLOUD, CELLULAR AND PROXIES IN ONE PLACE Claude's five-hour session and its weeklies. Codex's windows. Notion AI. The Claude API, Vertex AI, AWS, Google Cloud and Cloudflare against a budget you set. Your carrier's cellular data plan. Proxy subscription links and VPS bandwidth. Add as many accounts as you have. A PACE MARK ON EVERY BAR A percentage tells you where you are. It does not tell you whether that is fine. Every bar carries a mark showing where you would be if you spent evenly across the window. A bar 78% full with three days left reads instantly as trouble; the same bar with three hours left reads as a job well paced. BUILT LIKE PART OF iOS A Live Activity counts down to the reset on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Home Screen widgets come in small and medium, including one for this month's spend. Notifications arrive at the thresholds you choose, and when you start spending faster than the window allows. INSIGHTS AND RECEIPTS See what each day took from each limit and the pace of the window you are in, then print your month on a receipt you can share. YOUR CREDENTIALS STAY ON YOUR PHONE Bars signs you in the way the official tools do: the provider's own sign-in page, never a password box of ours. Tokens go into the iOS Keychain. There is no account to create, and your history syncs through your own private iCloud. FREE AND PRO Bars Free reads one account in full, with its pace mark and its notifications. Bars Pro reads every account and every limit, and adds the Live Activity, widgets, Insights and receipts. Pro is monthly, yearly with a free week to start, or once for life. Bars is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Anthropic, OpenAI, Notion, Google, Amazon or Cloudflare. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Bars reads the same endpoints those services' own tools read, using credentials you provide, and any sample figures shown before you connect an account are clearly labelled as demo data. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://noahgeneralgroup.com/bars/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bars at Free against Hush Secret Text's $2.99. Hush Secret Text's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Bars is free to download; Hush Secret Text costs $2.99 up front. Bars sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Hush Secret Text asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hush Secret Text ships an update every 2 weeks, Bars monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hush Secret Text | Bars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free โ better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks โ better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Corbin | Noah General Group Inc. |
In-app purchases
Hush Secret Text
No in-app purchases
Bars
- Bars Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Bars Pro Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Bars Pro$4.99
- Bars Pro$14.99









