Whatool vs Tapadito
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Whatool
Search your WhatsApp, Line, and Viber chats with advanced filters for date, sender, and message content. Keep your messages safe with on-device processing and create backup copies. Merge multiple conversations for a unified search experience.
- Advanced chat search
- Filter by date, sender, content
- On-device data processing
- Merge multiple conversations
- Create message backups
- Compatible with WhatsApp, Line, Viber
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Whatool turns an exported chat into something you can read and search, on your own device. In WhatsApp choose Export chat, then pick Whatool from the share sheet — it sits among the actions, in the bottom row. The .txt file and the .zip WhatsApp produces today are both read, and a chat file already on your device opens just as well. The whole history then becomes searchable: by word, by sender, by date. Jump to the day you are looking for instead of thumbing through years of messages. MERGE puts several conversations into one timeline, so a story told across three chats reads as one. Everything happens on your iPhone or iPad. Your messages are read and stored on the device, nothing is sent to a server, and Whatool works with no connection at all. Whatool also keeps what a messaging app does not. A phone you no longer own, a chat you cleared, someone you have lost: an export opened in Whatool stays readable years later. LINE exports are read too. Free, with optional purchases to remove the ads and lift the free limits. ----------------------------------- Disclaimer: app created by Luca Rubin. WhatsApp Messenger, LINE, their names, registered trademarks and all other aspects of these applications are registered trademarks of their respective owners. If you believe your rights have been infringed, please email us with all the relevant details at whatool@lucarubin.com
Tapadito
Protect your personal phone number by using a temporary, disposable number for communication. Ideal for real estate agents or online dating, it allows you to stay in touch without revealing your private contact details.
- Disposable phone numbers
- Private communication
- Number masking
- Temporary contact
- Secure messaging
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Today our personal phone number is a very delicate thing to simply give to anyone. For this reason, people who work in real estate or a girl who has just met a boy on the Internet, are a little afraid to give their personal phone number to someone they have just met. Now with Tapadito, that fear has passed into the past! Now, with Tapadito you can keep in touch with someone without having to give them your personal phone number.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tapadito at 100% against Whatool's 24%. Tapadito also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Whatool's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (70 vs 5). On price, ads and device support 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. Whatool sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Tapadito asks for nothing beyond the download.
Whatool holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Whatool has 70 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 24% of Whatool's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tapadito's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Whatool ships an update every 3 months, Tapadito every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Whatool | Tapadito |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (70 ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luca Rubin | Remwes, LLC |
Customer experience
Whatool
Tapadito
In-app purchases
Whatool
- Unlimited conversations$0.99
- Remove adverts$1.99
- Merge up to 5 conversations$1.99
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- Unlimited merging$3.99
- Unlock all features$5.99
Tapadito
No in-app purchases









