Comparison

mySOS vs VaultPony

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

Head to head
About

mySOS

Features
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mySOS โ€” 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 โ€” Medical, Police, Road, Fire, Sea or Other โ€” 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 โ€” medical, security or roadside โ€” 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.

About

VaultPony

Features
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VaultPony creates and opens encrypted containers on iPhone and iPad. A vault is a single encrypted file that holds a private filesystem, and only your password opens it. The containers are compatible with VeraCrypt, so you can open the same vaults on the desktop and back. There is no account, no cloud, and no network access. Your vaults are just files, kept wherever you choose, On My iPhone, iCloud Drive, or a third-party storage provider. Features: Create and open VeraCrypt-compatible containers, with a choice of cipher, hash, and filesystem (FAT or exFAT). Hidden volumes: conceal a second vault inside the first. Two passwords, and the outer one gives no sign the hidden one exists. The outer volume can be write-protected so normal use will not overwrite the hidden data. Header backup and recovery, in-place password change, and keyfiles. Face ID unlock, auto-lock when the app leaves the foreground, a privacy screen that hides vault content in the app switcher, and a no-trace mode that never writes decrypted content outside the vault. A full split-view layout on iPad; browse and preview side by side. Localized in English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. VaultPony is free and open source, built on a shared Rust core you can inspect. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by IDRIX; VeraCrypt is a registered trademark of IDRIX.

Screenshots

mySOS4 screens
VaultPony4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: mySOS at 13.0 against VaultPony's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mySOS ships an update every 3 weeks, VaultPony every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
mySOS versus VaultPony: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermySOSVaultPony
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size20 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMackor (Pty) LtdKevin Stewart

In-app purchases

None

mySOS

No in-app purchases

None

VaultPony

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is mySOS free?
mySOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is VaultPony free?
VaultPony is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do mySOS or VaultPony have ads?
Neither mySOS nor VaultPony shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mySOS or VaultPony?
mySOS ships an update every 3 weeks, and VaultPony every 2 weeks. Most recently, mySOS was updated on October 1, 2026 and VaultPony on October 19, 2026.

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