Virtru Email Protection vs Group Text and Email
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Virtru Email Protection
Secure your emails and attachments with end-to-end encryption on your iOS device. Control access, set expiration dates, and revoke sent messages to ensure data privacy and compliance. Recipients can view protected emails seamlessly without new accounts.
- End-to-end email encryption
- Encrypt messages and attachments
- Set expiration dates
- Disable forwarding
- Revoke access to sent emails
- Seamless recipient access
- Secure mobile collaboration
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Protect email messages and attachments sent from your iOS device and gain the confidence to collaborate while maintaining control of your data. Virtru Email Protection is secure (256-bit encryption). It gives you end-to-end encryption and access controls that prevent unauthorized access by third parties, ensuring privacy and compliance. • Encrypt messages and attachments within the compose screen, then add expiration dates and disable forwarding for granular control. • Revoke access to emails sent in error immediately, right from your Sent folder. • Give your recipients seamless access to messages encrypted on your mobile device, without forcing them to create new accounts, manage new passwords, or install a new application. • Securely view Virtru-protected email on-the-go for secure, mobile collaboration.
Group Text and Email
This app provides a quick and efficient method for sending personalized group text and email messages. Utilize templates to automatically insert specific details, making your communications more impactful and tailored to recipients.
- Personalized group messaging
- Template-based message creation
- Efficient message sending
- Email and text message support
- Customizable message content
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Want to personalize your text/email messages? We got solutions for you. This app offers a faster and more effective way to send personalized group text/email messages on a regular basis. If you use a template, the app can fill in the right information to get your messages more personalized. To make your text/email messages more powerful and effective, you need this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Group Text and Email at 4.0 against Virtru Email Protection's 2.7. Virtru Email Protection's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Group Text and Email sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Virtru Email Protection asks for nothing beyond the download.
Group Text and Email holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 65 and 47 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Virtru Email Protection's written reviews are positive against 33% of Group Text and Email's.
Virtru Email Protection ships an update every 2 months, Group Text and Email every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Virtru Email Protection | Group Text and Email |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (65 ratings) | 4.0 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 65 — better | 47 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Virtru Corporation | Appiplayer Software |
Customer experience
Virtru Email Protection
Group Text and Email
Bugs and requests
Virtru Email Protection
Reported bugs
70 issues- App crashes on startup
- App won't open
- Keeps crashing
- Unusable after setting passcode
- Cannot open received emails
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- Slow loading of emails
- Emails disappear/not sent
- Buggy and doesn't refresh properly
- Issues with iCloud/Gmail
- Frustrating attachment handling
- Deletes drafts
- Keyboard blocks writing
- Inconsistent updates break app
- Clunky/ugly interface
- Cannot send emails
- No access to documents/Dropbox
- Only attaches photos, not documents
- Lost entire emails due to errors
- Does not work with Internet Explorer recipients
- Activation/login issues
- Not easy to add mail accounts
- IMAP only, difficult configuration
- Black screen after update
- App crashes on open
- Not authorized error
- Verification takes hours
- Asking to update payment method
- Does not work on older iOS versions
- Unable to activate on iPad
- Only works with Google/Gmail
- App doesn't reflect email confirmation
- Passcode/Face ID locks app
- No submit button after code entry
- Rarely get emails sent to me
- Support is no help
- Does not send anything/error message
- Does not work with iCloud
- Super slow and horrible
- Downloads emails in batches
- Crashes on startup
- Will not work on my version of IOS
- App didn't work for my gmail
- Emails disappear
- Horrible shortcomings
- Periodically great, but updates break it
- This version is absolutely horrible
- Won't activate with gmail
- Cannot long into through my email
- Super slow... Takes forever to load messages
- No access to Dropbox or any other file service
- Update for iPhone X needed
- Black screen after update
- App crashes
- Missing attachment function
- Lousy
- No way to send attachments from iOS
- Needs notification for new mail
- Nearly unusable to SEND messages
- Unable to send
- Not working on iPad
- Lacks support for multiple email accounts
- Version 1.1.7 issues
- Unable to sign in
- Not easy to add mail accounts
- Almost impossible to configure
- Works ONCE, then never again
- Does not work as part of IOS Mail
- Enable disabled forwarding does not prevent
- Revoke feature doesn't work
- Confirmation link expired
Requested features
8 requests- Support for multiple email addresses/accounts
- Add support for documents as attachments
- Enable badge notification for new mail
- Ability to sort mail normally
- Dark mode option
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- Landscape orientation support
- Update for facial recognition on iPhone X
- Multi accounts support
Group Text and Email
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Virtru Email Protection
No in-app purchases
Group Text and Email
- Group Text and Email Pro$7.99
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