Comparison

Avira Mobile Security vs IDNotify

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

Head to head
About

Avira Mobile Security

Enhance your iPhone's privacy and security with a VPN for anonymous browsing, identity protection against email leaks, and web protection against malicious sites. It also includes call blocking and contact backup features.

Highlights
  • Free VPN for anonymous browsing
  • Identity Safeguard for email leak detection
  • Web Protection against phishing and malware
  • Call Blocker for unwanted calls
  • Contacts Backup and Restore
  • Device Analyzer for storage and memory
Features
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Why iPhones deserve Avira? We’re a multi-award-winning German security company with +30 years of experience and a global vision: To keep people connected and secure in our digital world. Avira loves iPhones. Your phone is state-of-the-art—give it privacy and security to match: • Care about your Privacy? Keep your data safe and your online activity anonymous with our Free VPN • Email leaked? Find out fast with Identity Safeguard • Browsing online? Web Protection checks the safety of sites first Avira Mobile Security protects your phone: • VPN: Secure your connection with a simple push of a button for complete privacy as you surf. When you use our VPN, all your data goes through a secure connection—so it can’t be intercepted or stolen. Plus, we use military-grade encryption to keep your data extra safe. The auto-secure function detects if your WiFi network is untrusted, and we promise our servers don’t save your log files. • Web Protection: Like online shopping and banking? Do you store your credit card details online? This categorizes and blocks phishing, malware, spam, and fraud so you can browse freely and safely. • Identity Safeguard: Find out if your email addresses have been hacked. Schedule the frequency (once a day/week/month), and we’ll automatically scan your email, and those of your contacts, to check whether they were leaked online in a security breach. • Call Blocker: Create your own blacklist and block spam and other unwanted calls and texts. • Contacts Backup: Easily back up and restore contacts straight from your phone and send them to your email, Dropbox, or Google Drive. Avira Mobile Security lets nothing stand in the way of your iPhone’s awesomeness: • Device Analyzer: View your iPhone’s use of storage and memory to see where you can make gains. * VPN service is not available for use within India as a result of governmental regulations requiring the logging and saving of user data, but you can still use your VPN service when traveling outside of India. Avira Mobile Security keeps everything you do between you and your iPhone: Privacy Policy available at https://www.avira.com/en/general-privacy Terms and Conditions available at https://www.avira.com/en/legal-terms

About

IDNotify

Protect your online activity and personal information from hackers on public Wi-Fi. This app creates an encrypted virtual private network to secure your browsing and prevent third parties from tracking your device and location.

Highlights
  • Encrypts browsing activity
  • Protects personal information
  • Secures Wi-Fi network connections
  • Prevents location tracking
  • Creates encrypted VPN connection
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Shield your browsing activity from hackers while on public networks. You will be able to create your own encrypted virtual private network connection whenever you want to protect your browsing activity. Secure VPN will help you keep your device wi-fi network secure and private. Using it will help you: 1. Prevent hackers from gaining access to your personal information and other data as it’s in transit or being sent from and received by your device on a wi-fi network. 2. Prevent third parties from gathering device, IP address, location information while on wi-fi network. Recommended use of the VPN We recommend that you turn on your VPN every time you are using your device to connect to the internet. This includes while you are browsing the internet or using applications that use the internet; for instance: (Social media, banking, and gaming apps). Keep the VPN on until you are finished with your session. Some choose to leave the VPN always on during the day.

Screenshots

Avira Mobile Security4 screens
IDNotify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Avira Mobile Security at 67% against IDNotify's 0%. IDNotify's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11). On price, ads, device support 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. Avira Mobile Security sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. IDNotify asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Avira Mobile Security versus IDNotify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAvira Mobile SecurityIDNotify
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (4.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews67.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4.6K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAvira HoldingCSIdentity corporation

Customer experience

Avira Mobile Security

All ratings4,649 ratings
Positive81.3%
Neutral5.8%
Negative12.9%
Written reviews1,722 reviews
Positive67.1%
Neutral8.9%
Negative24.0%

IDNotify

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Avira Mobile Security

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Login/account issues, unable to restore purchases
  • Inconsistent VPN behavior, frequently turning off
  • Scanning issues, getting stuck at certain percentages
  • Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
  • Unexplained charges and subscription issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved VPN functionality and reliability
  • Better customer support and communication channels
  • Ability to selectively delete duplicate photos
  • More transparency on free vs paid features

IDNotify

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Avira Mobile Security

Subscriptions10
  • Identity & Web Protection$1.991 Month
  • Ultimate Security - Pro + VPN$3.491 Month
  • Identity & Web Protection$5.491 Year
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  • Pro: Identity & Web Protection7 Days trial$5.491 Year
  • Identity & Web Protection2 variants$14.991 Year
  • Ultimate Security - Pro + VPN$22.991 Year
  • Prime Mobile Trial$22.991 Year
  • Pro+Unlimited VPN+Spam Caller$29.991 Year
  • Pro+Unlimited VPN+Spam Caller$34.991 Year
  • Pro+Unlimited VPN+Spam Caller$39.991 Year
None

IDNotify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Avira Mobile Security free?
Avira Mobile Security is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is IDNotify free?
IDNotify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Avira Mobile Security or IDNotify have ads?
Neither Avira Mobile Security nor IDNotify shows ads.

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