Skytalk Me vs hellotern
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Skytalk Me
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Skytalk Me is a messaging app for people who care about privacy. Every message, call, and file you share is end-to-end encrypted, which means only you and the people in your conversation can see what's being said. Not even we can read your stuff. PRIVATE MESSAGING Send texts, photos, videos, voice messages, and files without worrying about who might be snooping. Everything is encrypted by default, no setup needed. Works great for one-on-one chats and group conversations alike. VOICE & VIDEO CALLS Make clear voice and video calls to anyone on Skytalk Me. Every call is end-to-end encrypted so your conversations stay between you and the person you're talking to. GROUP CHATS & ROOMS Set up group chats for your family, friends, or work team. Organize things into rooms and spaces, set permissions, invite people, and keep everything tidy. SMART NOTIFICATIONS No more notification overload. Skytalk Me only buzzes you about the stuff that actually matters, like messages meant for you, mentions, and incoming calls. You can mute rooms, set mentions-only mode, or customize alerts however you like. EASY TO USE Sign up and start chatting in seconds. No complicated setup, no fiddling with settings. Just one account, one secure platform, and a clean experience on iPhone and iPad. HIGHLIGHTS ⢠End-to-end encryption on all messages and calls ⢠Private and group chats ⢠Encrypted voice and video calling ⢠Share files, photos, and media ⢠Smart notification filtering ⢠Rooms and spaces to stay organized ⢠Syncs across your devices Privacy isn't just a feature here, it's the whole point. Give Skytalk Me a try!
hellotern
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Tern is a private messenger for the people you actually talk to: end-to-end encrypted rooms, voice and video calls, and small communities, with the intelligence running on your phone, inside the encryption, instead of on a server that reads along. NO ACCOUNT, NO PHONE NUMBER Open Tern, pick a name, create a room. Share its invite code or link and the people you invite are in. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to sell. ENCRYPTED END TO END, INCLUDING CALLS Messages, photos, voice notes and files are sealed on your device with modern group encryption (MLS) and stay sealed through the relay. Voice and video calls are encrypted frame by frame on your phone; the call server forwards packets it cannot decode. CALLS THAT HOLD UP One-to-one and group voice and video calls, ring everyone in a room at once, add someone mid-call, switch from voice to video, picture-in-picture, call history, and a Test call engine button in Call diagnostics for when a network is being difficult. ROOMS THAT FEEL LIKE HOME Channels and threads, pinned messages, polls and events, voice rooms you can hop in and out of, a Space Home that shows who is around, disappearing and view-once media, stickers you cut out yourself. INTELLIGENCE THAT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Catch Me Up summarizes what you missed, in eight languages, from your own device. Search finds the message you half-remember. Voice notes are transcribed locally. No message leaves your phone to make any of this work, and everything AI-generated is labelled as such. CALM BY CONSTRUCTION No feed, no algorithmic ranking, no streaks, no autoplay. A chronological view is the only view. You are always caught up when the messages end. WHAT WE CANNOT SEE Tern's relay stores sealed envelopes it cannot open and forwards call packets it cannot decode. Notifications are content-free nudges. There are no ads, no trackers, and no third-party analytics in the app or on hellotern.com. Tern is free. Details of what the app can and cannot do, and how the encryption works, are at hellotern.com.
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The clearest difference is device support: Skytalk Me at 3 against hellotern's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Skytalk Me | hellotern |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | ā | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 ā better | 16.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 165 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hudzaifah Lutfi | Saad Maan |
In-app purchases
Skytalk Me
No in-app purchases
hellotern
No in-app purchases









