mySOS vs PassPony
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
mySOS
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mySOS — Peace of Mind in your pocket. mySOS turns your phone into a personal safety device. When you feel unsafe or face an emergency, one tap raises the alarm and shares your live GPS location with the people who matter most, so help can find you fast. EMERGENCY AT A TAP Choose the help you need — Medical, Police, Road, Fire, Sea or Other — and instantly alert your emergency contacts with your real-time location. LIVE LOCATION SHARING Your contacts can see where you are on a map and follow your movements until you are safe. JOURNEY TRACKING Heading out for a walk, run or drive? Start a Journey and let your contacts watch over your trip. If something goes wrong, they are alerted. FIND HELP NEAR ME Quickly locate the nearest hospital, police station, pharmacy and other essential services, wherever you are. PANIC BUTTON READY Pair a mySOS GSM or 4G panic button to raise an emergency even when your phone is not in your hand. HOW IT WORKS Free plan: your saved emergency contacts are notified with your live location whenever you raise an alarm. Premium plan (Peace of Mind): adds professional 24/7 call-centre monitoring that calls you to verify your emergency and dispatches the right help — medical, security or roadside — while keeping your contacts informed. Whether you are walking to your car, travelling, or simply keeping loved ones close at hand, mySOS helps you feel safer every day. Your safety, shared. Download mySOS today. mySOS is provided by mySOS Solutions (Pty) Ltd. mySOS supports your safety but cannot guarantee response times or outcomes and is not a substitute for official emergency services.
PassPony
This app is an open-source password manager that allows you to own your encrypted password files. It syncs with Git and is interoperable with command-line tools, offering features like QuickType autofill and live one-time codes.
- File-based encrypted password storage
- Git synchronization
- Interoperable with pass/passage CLI
- QuickType autofill
- Live one-time codes (TOTP)
- Face ID/Touch ID unlock
- Ephemeral clipboard
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PassPony is a password manager for people who want to own their passwords. Every entry is one encrypted file in a store you control, in the same format as the pass and passage command line tools. Your Mac, your server, and your phone can all work on the same store. WHY A FILE-BASED STORE One entry, one file: the password on the first line, anything else after it. Encrypted with your keys: age identities for passage stores, OpenPGP keys for pass stores. Synced with git: clone your existing store, publish a new one, and resolve conflicts per entry, never with a silent merge. Interoperable: commits match the pass CLI format, so the store stays fully usable from the desktop tools. EVERYDAY USE QuickType autofill: your passes appear above the keyboard when you sign in. Only entry names are indexed; nothing decrypts until you fill. Live one-time codes: entries with an otpauth line show a TOTP code with a countdown ring. Face ID or Touch ID unlock, with a five-minute grace window shared with autofill. Ephemeral clipboard: copies are local only and clear after 45 seconds. Field-level editing that preserves the exact bytes of lines it does not touch. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account, no signup, no PassPony server. The only network connection is the git remote you configure. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Open source, Apache-2.0. The full app and its Rust core are published in a public git repository for anyone to audit. FORMATS passage stores encrypt with modern age identities. pass stores encrypt with OpenPGP keys (Cv25519 and X25519/Ed25519 in software). RSA-keyed stores need a smartcard, which is not supported yet. Each format keeps its own store; switching never touches the other. Localized in English, Spanish, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian. If you already run pass or passage, PassPony is the missing phone half of your setup. If you have never used them, the first-run tour will have you adding your first pass in about a minute.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PassPony at every 5 days against mySOS's every 3 weeks. mySOS's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
mySOS ships an update every 3 weeks, PassPony every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | mySOS | PassPony |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mackor (Pty) Ltd | Kevin Stewart |
In-app purchases
mySOS
No in-app purchases
PassPony
No in-app purchases









