Comparison

Haven Private Circles vs NoPeek Messenger

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

Head to head
About

Haven Private Circles

A private social network focused on secure sharing with close friends and family. It offers end-to-end encrypted posts, messages, and calls, with no ads or tracking. Content is shared directly between devices or via relays, ensuring privacy.

Highlights
  • Private circles for specific groups
  • End-to-end encrypted posts, photos, videos, and stories
  • Direct and group messaging with secret messages
  • Group voice and video calls with screen sharing
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Disappearing posts
  • Offline nearby sharing via Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
Features
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Haven is a private social network for the people who actually matter. No ads. No tracking. No algorithm deciding what you see. No company server holding your memories. Everything you share is end-to-end encrypted with hybrid post-quantum cryptography and travels between your devices over the internet — directly, or through a relay that can't read it — or over Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi when you're together offline. Even we can't read it. • Private circles — share with family and close friends in separate, invite‑only circles, and always see exactly who a post will reach • Posts, photos, videos & stories — with a modern camera, easy captions, and a song • Direct & group messages — with sender names, timestamps, and delivery checks, plus scheduled and screenshot‑protected secret messages • Group voice & video calls — 1:1 and group, with screen sharing, peer‑to‑peer, no call server in the middle • All your devices in sync — start on iPhone, pick up on iPad or Mac; your posts and messages follow you • Disappearing posts — you decide how long things stick around • Nearby sharing — works with no internet at all, phone to phone • Your relay does the heavy lifting — photos and videos go up once to a relay you run and friends fetch them from there, so your phone stays cool; or keep memories on your own S3 bucket • Stays out of your way — big transfers wait while you're on a call, or when your device is hot or in Low Power Mode • No account, no phone number, no email — your identity lives only on your device Haven is a stronghold for the people you love. It's built so that no one — not advertisers, not data brokers, not even the people who made it — can get between you and your circle.

About

NoPeek Messenger

Features
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NoPeek Messenger is a private messenger for teams and organizations, built on one rule: ciphertext to us, plaintext to you. Every message, photo, file, and reaction is end-to-end encrypted on your device using MLS (RFC 9420) before it ever touches a server. We store and route ciphertext we cannot read — not for analytics, not for advertising, not on request. CALLS THAT RING LIKE CALLS Incoming voice and video calls light up your phone's native call screen. The call itself is peer-to-peer WebRTC, encrypted end-to-end — there are no relay servers, period. Your audio and video travel directly between devices; on the rare network where a direct path is impossible, we tell you instead of routing your call through a middleman. We never record calls; we couldn't play them back if we did. YOUR AI, YOUR HARDWARE Add AI bots to your chats — but unlike other platforms, NoPeek bots run on their owner's computer, never on our servers. A bot can decrypt only the groups its owner explicitly grants, and bots are private by default: only authorized senders reach them. Your agent, your hardware, your keys. BUILT FOR ORGS Groups and organizations with real admin controls: manage membership, control who can reach a bot, and switch off saving media to device galleries org-wide. HIPAA-friendly controls for compliance-minded teams — controls, not certifications; bring your own compliance program. SHARE IN, SAFELY NoPeek sits in your phone's share sheet. Photos and files you share in are encrypted on-device before they go anywhere. Saving received media to your gallery happens only when you tap Save, using write-only access — the app can add that photo; it can't browse the rest. NEVER LOGGED OUT Sessions persist across restarts and updates. Lose every device and your history still comes back: recovery is an encrypted key backup that only your email and password can unwrap. We store the blob; we can't open it. FAST AND LOCKED DOWN Recent messages are cached decrypted on your device — and only there — so chats open before the network does. Biometric app lock, privacy screen, and QR device linking: new devices join with a scan, not a password reset. WHAT WE CAN'T SEE Message text. Attachments. Reactions. Call audio and video. Your address book — contact matching happens on your device and nothing is uploaded. Your location — shared only inside encrypted messages, user to user. WHAT WE DO PROCESS Account basics (name, email), routing metadata (who is in which channel, timestamps, delivery markers), and call signaling (who called whom, when, for how long). That's the honest list — the full privacy policy has the details. NoPeek Messenger is not a replacement for your telephone and cannot reach emergency services (911/112).

Screenshots

Haven Private Circles4 screens
NoPeek Messenger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Haven Private Circles at every 4 days against NoPeek Messenger's every 2 weeks. Haven Private Circles also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Haven Private Circles ships an update every 4 days, NoPeek Messenger every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Haven Private Circles versus NoPeek Messenger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHaven Private CirclesNoPeek Messenger
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlaine MillerSignOut

In-app purchases

None

Haven Private Circles

No in-app purchases

None

NoPeek Messenger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Haven Private Circles free?
Haven Private Circles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NoPeek Messenger free?
NoPeek Messenger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Haven Private Circles or NoPeek Messenger have ads?
Neither Haven Private Circles nor NoPeek Messenger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Haven Private Circles or NoPeek Messenger?
Haven Private Circles ships an update every 4 days, and NoPeek Messenger every 2 weeks. Most recently, Haven Private Circles was updated on November 5, 2026 and NoPeek Messenger on October 31, 2026.

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