Comparison

Darwin Security vs Silicon Audit

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

Head to head
About

Darwin Security

This digital security guard screens unknown callers, detects AI or scam voices, and identifies scam texts, emails, and social DMs. It offers a safe sandbox for suspicious links and checks for AI-generated media, protecting the whole family with a private, encrypted subscription.

Highlights
  • Screens unknown callers
  • Detects AI/scam voices
  • Identifies scam texts/emails/DMs
  • Safe link sandbox
  • AI-generated media detection
  • Family protection subscription
Features
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You cannot pick up every call your mom gets or read every DM your kid opens. Darwin can. Someone is finally watching out for the people you love. Darwin is your family's digital security guard. - Screen unknown callers before the phone rings - Receive a warning when the voice on the line is AI or sounds like a scam - Catch scam texts, emails and social DMs - Ask Darwin for a quick second opinion - Open suspicious looking links in a safe sandbox - Check whether a photo or video is AI generated - Protect the entire family with one subscription - Keep your data private. Darwin only reads what you connect and all your data is completely encrypted

About

Silicon Audit

This app analyzes your Apple device's chip and kernel to report on its security features. It provides both plain-language explanations and deep technical details about hardware protections. The app monitors for changes and allows you to export reports, all while prioritizing user privacy with no network access or analytics.

Highlights
  • Chip and kernel security feature analysis
  • Plain language and technical detail explanations
  • Memory tagging and integrity enforcement checks
  • Pointer authentication and speculation hardening
  • Kernel protection documentation
  • Change monitoring and notifications
  • JSON report export
Features
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Silicon Audit shows what your Apple device's chip and kernel report about their security features: in plain language first, and in full technical detail when you want it. WHAT IT CHECKS • Memory tagging hardware (MTE) and Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement • Pointer authentication and branch target protection • Speculation hardening and constant-time execution • The kernel protections Apple documents for your chip family • On macOS, whether memory tagging is active right now, and whether it is active for this app Every answer says where it came from. Measured means your device's kernel reported it through the public sysctl interface. Documented means Apple published it, and the source and date are shown. The app never guesses: a chip Apple has not documented reads as not documented. LOOK DEEPER Every check opens to the facts behind it, and every fact to its raw reading: the sysctl key, type, length and value. All readings sit on three shelves: security protections, chip and instruction sets, device and system. A measurement screen explains how the report was produced. CHANGE MONITORING The first reading becomes a baseline. Silicon Audit checks again when you open it and periodically in the background, and tells you if anything moved: a protection that was reported on and now reports off, a value that changed, a key that appeared or vanished, a system update. Each change is explained at three depths: a plain sentence, what it could mean, and the technical before and after. Notifications are optional. The monitor sees only what the kernel exposes, and the app says so. EXPORT AND CONTRIBUTE Export a JSON report with provenance on every fact. It contains no serial number, device identifier, hostname or account. Contribute it to the public results database on GitHub to help map which Apple chips report which protections. PRIVACY No network access. No analytics. Readings stay on your device unless you share them. Open source under Apache-2.0. Apple Watch: measure on the watch itself and send the report to your iPhone. Apple TV: export as a QR code.

Screenshots

Darwin Security4 screens
Silicon Audit3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Silicon Audit at none against Darwin Security's 2. Silicon Audit also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). Darwin Security's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price and rating there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Darwin Security sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 per month. Silicon Audit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Darwin Security against 5.0 for Silicon Audit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Darwin Security versus Silicon Audit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDarwin SecuritySilicon Audit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDarwin Labs Inc.Unredacted Inc

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Darwin Security

Subscriptions2
  • Darwin Secure$10.001 Month
  • Darwin Secure (Yearly)$96.001 Year
None

Silicon Audit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Darwin Security free?
Darwin Security is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Silicon Audit free?
Silicon Audit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Darwin Security or Silicon Audit?
Darwin Security and Silicon Audit are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Darwin Security or Silicon Audit have ads?
Darwin Security shows ads; Silicon Audit does not.

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