Comparison

Secret Code Maker vs LiteWire Messaging

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

Head to head
About

Secret Code Maker

Create unique images that secretly embed your messages. View hidden text by aligning the image with your device's charging port. This fun entertainment app offers a novel way to share secrets.

Highlights
  • Embed messages into images
  • View hidden text via charging port alignment
  • Create unique visual secrets
  • Hard-to-read message encoding
Features
Read full description

With this application, you can make a wonderful picture easily. The picture you made includes your messages inside. You can only see the messages, if you see the picture through the direction of the charge mouth of iPhone. This is not real cipher. But it's hard to read. Can you read THIS??? FYI, if you can't see the messages well, please watch this movie I made. http://youtu.be/xkblFaH-PXQ This is Japanese version. But you can find how to see the picture soon.

About

LiteWire Messaging

This messaging app offers enhanced privacy and safety features, allowing users to delete messages for all parties and send distress beacons with location and audio. It prioritizes user control and anonymity with no personal information required for signup.

Highlights
  • Anonymous signup
  • Delete messages for all
  • Custom watermarks
  • Screenshot notifications
  • Distress beacon with location and audio
  • End-to-end encryption
Features
Read full description

Just another messaging app to clutter your app drawer, right? That's exactly what LiteWire is, and we don't even have degrees from MIT or Harvard like everyone else. But, we are the only messaging app that is as fun as we are safe. With just one gesture, you can delete any regretful text, or send a distress beacon that alerts your close contacts of your location and mic recordings of your surroundings. LiteWire will protect you from embarrassing decisions just as much as it will protect you from danger. Here’s a shortlist of our features: - Complete anonymity for sign up: no phone number, contacts, email address, last four of your social and credit card CVC code, blood type, etc. Just agree on a channel name or find each other by username. - Deleting messages deletes for all parties. This includes images and videos you send. - Custom watermarks protect your private content on your buddies’ devices, along with screenshot notifications - Distress beacon tells your close buddies your exact GPS coordinates and continual audio recordings of your surroundings. - End to end encryption, obviously. We can't read anything you send and don't want to. It's probably boring. - We are free! Other chat apps that offer similar features want your money. Gross. We made this app so you are in complete control of your communications and feel safe, both in the cyber world and the real world. Protect your communications from ex’s, Apples, Googles, and governments with LiteWire, the ultimate app for sexting (safe texting).

Screenshots

Secret Code Maker4 screens
LiteWire Messaging1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: LiteWire Messaging at weekly against Secret Code Maker's every 2 months. LiteWire Messaging also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Secret Code Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Secret Code Maker against 5.0 for LiteWire Messaging. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 10 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Secret Code Maker's written reviews are positive against 100% of LiteWire Messaging's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Secret Code Maker ships an update every 2 months, LiteWire Messaging weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Secret Code Maker versus LiteWire Messaging: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSecret Code MakerLiteWire Messaging
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (11 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better12.5
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB101 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSho KurozumiEdward Wayne

Customer experience

Secret Code Maker

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

LiteWire Messaging

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Secret Code Maker

No in-app purchases

None

LiteWire Messaging

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Secret Code Maker free?
Secret Code Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LiteWire Messaging free?
LiteWire Messaging is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Secret Code Maker or LiteWire Messaging?
Secret Code Maker and LiteWire Messaging are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 11 and 10 ratings respectively.
Do Secret Code Maker or LiteWire Messaging have ads?
Neither Secret Code Maker nor LiteWire Messaging shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Secret Code Maker or LiteWire Messaging?
Secret Code Maker ships an update every 2 months, and LiteWire Messaging weekly. Most recently, Secret Code Maker was updated on October 7, 2026 and LiteWire Messaging on October 3, 2026.

Other comparisons