Signal vs Dynetix Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Signal
This messaging app prioritizes your privacy with strong end-to-end encryption for all communications. It offers free text, voice, and video messaging, including group chats and disappearing stories, all without collecting your data.
- End-to-end encrypted messaging
- Free voice and video calls
- Group chats up to 1000 people
- Disappearing Stories
- File sharing
- Admin controls for groups
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Signal is a messaging app with privacy at its core. It is free and easy to use, with strong end-to-end encryption that keeps your communication completely private. • Send texts, voice messages, photos, videos, GIFs, and files for free. Signal uses your phone’s data connection, so you avoid SMS and MMS fees. • Call your friends with crystal-clear encrypted voice and video calls. Group calls supported for up to 50 people. • Stay connected with group chats up to 1,000 people. Control who can post and manage group members with admin permission settings. • Share image, text, and video Stories that disappear after 24 hours. Privacy settings keep you in charge of exactly who can see each Story. • Signal is built for your privacy. We know nothing about you or who you’re talking to. Our open source Signal Protocol means that we can’t read your messages or listen to your calls. Neither can anyone else. No back doors, no data collection, no compromises. • Signal is independent and not for profit; a different kind of tech from a different kind of organization. As a 501c3 nonprofit we are supported by your donations, not by advertisers or investors. • For support, questions, or more information please visit https://support.signal.org/ To check out our source code, visit https://github.com/signalapp Follow us on Twitter @signalapp and Instagram @signal_app
Dynetix Chat
Connect with friends globally through unlimited live video chats. Create secure rooms with passcodes, share messages, and control your privacy with options to mute audio/video or use virtual backgrounds. Enjoy extended conversations without time limits.
- Unlimited live video chat
- Secure chat rooms with passcodes
- Mute camera and microphone
- Virtual backgrounds and blur effects
- In-chat text messaging
- Switch between front/back cameras
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This powerful and secure app allows you to perform unlimited live video chat with up to six friends, who may be at anywhere in the world, for unlimited time. Specifically, you may login or sign-up into the app via your selected email address and password. After that, you may either enter an existing chat room, if you know the room's name and security code, or create your own chat room by specifying a room name and a security code in the app's main view. You then enter the room by clicking the Enter key. Furthermore, prior to entering a chat room, you may message or email your friends to join you in the chat room, via the SMS or email button, respectively. Finally, you may click the 'I' button to access an information menu, which let you access Settings, view group video chat subscription term of use, etc. Once you are in a chat room. you will be automatically connected to other peers as they enter the chat room. Moreover, their video screens will be added and shown on yours and other users' device. You may click the video and/or audio buttons to turn-on/off your device camera and microphone for privacy. Moreover, you may click the people button to view a list of participants currently in the chat room, and click the message button to send a message to all connected peers. Added to all that, you may click the switch camera button to select using the front or back camera on your device to stream your local image to your peers. When you want to exit the chat room, click the phone hangup button to leave the chat room. As each person enter or leave a chat room, all other participants in the room will be notified, and their video screens will be added or removed accordingly. Added to the above, via the app's Settings, you may specify a photo to be used as a virtual background for the local video stream, or you may ask the app to blur the local stream background image, so that in live chats, remote users will not be able to see your background image for privacy. To summarize, the special features of this app are: 1. No time limit on your video chat. 2. You may exit and re-enter a chat room at any time. 3. Each chat room is guarded by a security code for security. 4. You may mute your camera and/or microphone for privacy. 5. During live chat, you may tap on any one of the videos to display that stream in full screen, and all other streams to be shown in thumbnails. You may tap on the screen again to show all video streams in their regular windows. 6. You may click the message button to send text messages to all connected peers. 7. You may long press on any video view to hide or show all the control buttons and the room label. 8. Via the app's Settings, you may specify an auto hangup time period. If that time period is set, the app will automatically hang up your video screen when all connected peers have left the chat room and the user-specified time period expires. 9. Localized for US English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. 10. You may specify a photo to be depicted when local video is turned off during live chat. 11. You may long press on the video view to hide/show the functional buttons. 12 You may blur or specify a photo for your local stream, so that remote users will not see your background for privacy. 13. Via the Background Photo button in the video view, you may change the virtual background image or video-off photo. Group Video Chat Subscription By default, the app allows you to chat with a peer for one-on-one video chat. If you want to chat with two or more peers at the same time, you will need to purchase the Group Video Chat Subscription. To purchase the Group Video Chat Subscription, click on the red people icon in the app's main view, and follow the prompts to make the purchase. You may cancel the subscription at any time via the Settings app on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Signal at Free against Dynetix Chat's $0.99. Signal also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (1.1M vs 2). Dynetix Chat's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Signal is free to download; Dynetix Chat costs $0.99 up front. Signal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Dynetix Chat sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dynetix Chat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Signal has 1.1M ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Signal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dynetix Chat's.
Signal ships an update every 6 days, Dynetix Chat every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Signal | Dynetix Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.1M ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1M — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #9 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Signal Messenger, LLC | Dynetix Design Solutions Inc |
Customer experience
Signal
Dynetix Chat
Bugs and requests
Signal
Reported bugs
5 issues- Problem retrieving data, resulting in lost message history
- Keyboard covering the current conversation
- Inconsistent behavior when attaching photos/videos
- Scrolling issues when reading through messages
- Inability to recover message history after device change
Requested features
10 requests- Add filters and customization options
- Allow adding music to stories
- Implement a sticker store
- Add ability to pin messages in group chats
- Allow new members to view previous group messages
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- Make group background changes visible to all
- Implement a backup/restore feature
- Add option to move sent messages to the left side
- Bring back pause and skip functions for longer audio messages
- Allow batch deletion of group messages
Dynetix Chat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Signal
- Signal Secure Backups$1.991 Month
Dynetix Chat
- Group Video Chat Subscription$1.991 Month









