Comparison

RelayPony vs ICIDO

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

Head to head
About

RelayPony

Features
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Send files from one device to another, privately. RelayPony is an encrypted file transfer app for photos, videos, documents, folders, text and links. Pair two devices once, then send between them over Wi-Fi or over the internet. No account, no sign-up, no cloud copy of your files. HOW IT WORKS Pair two devices by scanning a QR code or typing a short word code. From then on, pick what to send and tap the device. Nearby devices connect directly over your Wi-Fi network. Devices on different networks connect over the internet, directly when they can, or through a relay that only ever sees encrypted data. WHY RELAYPONY • End-to-end encrypted with the age encryption standard. Only the paired device can open what you send. • No account, no sign-up, no cloud storage. The relay passes encrypted data along and keeps nothing. • Only paired devices can send to you. Anyone else is turned away and listed, so you can pair with them if you want to. • No size limit set by the app. Send one photo or a whole video library. • Folders, text and links. Folders arrive as a zip you can extract to Files, and links arrive ready to open. • Share from any app. RelayPony is in the share sheet, so photos, documents and links go straight to the device you choose. • Run your own relay server if you prefer. It is open source too. • No ads, no tracking, no in-app purchases, no analytics. • Open source, so anyone can check exactly what the app does. WORKS ACROSS PLATFORMS RelayPony 4 pairs and sends between iPhone, iPad and RelayPony 4 on other platforms, with the same QR and word codes. PRIVATE FILE SHARING, NOT FILE HOSTING Nothing is uploaded to a server you have to trust. A nearby transfer never leaves your network. An internet transfer is encrypted on your device before it goes anywhere, and the relay cannot read it. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE RelayPony is available in English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Hindi and Brazilian Portuguese. PERMISSIONS, PLAINLY The camera is used only to scan a pairing QR code, on your device. Local network access is used only to find and connect to the device you are sending to. Your files leave your device only as the encrypted transfer you choose to send. relaypony.app

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ICIDO

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ICIDO turns your iPhone's LiDAR scanner into an indoor map you can navigate — no beacons, no Wi-Fi setup, no internet. Scan a room once and ICIDO remembers its exact shape. Walk back in later and it recognizes where you are and guides you to any spot, even where GPS has no signal. HOW IT WORKS • Scan — sweep your iPhone across a room to capture its walls, floor, and furniture in 3D. • Find yourself — tap Find Me and ICIDO works out which place you're in and exactly where you're standing. • Navigate — pick a saved spot or tap the map, and a route is drawn on the real floor, steering around furniture and through doorways. FEATURES • Tag any spot — drop a waypoint ("printer", "exit", "room 204") and route straight to it. • Rooms, detected automatically — larger maps split into named rooms at the doorways. • Grow your maps — add newly scanned areas to a place, or combine two overlapping maps into one. • Buildings — stack scanned floors into a building and ICIDO follows you between them. • History — revisit where you've been with trails and heat maps. • Share — send a place as a .spacemap file; the other person can open and navigate it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no networking. Your scans never leave your iPhone. REQUIRES LiDAR ICIDO needs the LiDAR sensor, available on iPhone 12 Pro and later Pro models (Pro and Pro Max). It will not scan on non-Pro iPhones.

Screenshots

RelayPony4 screens
ICIDO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ICIDO at every 8 days against RelayPony's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RelayPony ships an update every 2 months, ICIDO every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
RelayPony versus ICIDO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRelayPonyICIDO
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin StewartFab Lab Connect

In-app purchases

None

RelayPony

No in-app purchases

None

ICIDO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RelayPony free?
RelayPony is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ICIDO free?
ICIDO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RelayPony or ICIDO have ads?
Neither RelayPony nor ICIDO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RelayPony or ICIDO?
RelayPony ships an update every 2 months, and ICIDO every 8 days. Most recently, RelayPony was updated on October 31, 2026 and ICIDO on October 31, 2026.

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