Private Message Box vs Fingerprint Lock Hide Message
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Private Message Box
Secure your private conversations with password protection. Send unlimited texts, photos, and location details to other users for free. Enhance your privacy with a virtual number option.
- Password protected conversations
- Free texting between users
- Send unlimited text, photo, and location
- Full emoji support
- Virtual number for hidden communication
- Privacy Guard
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Do you want to hide your private conversations? Worried on messages from one friend checked by others, then Private Message Box is for you. It saves messages of secret contacts behind PIN pad. Its easy to use and keeps user conversation secret. Your conversation with PSB contacts is 100% SECRET and secure. It also provides free texting between App Users. Just Sign-In with your number. Send unlimited text, photo and location details to another user. You can do conversations only with users who have enabled Free messaging. Full of emoji characters (300 emoji support), useful to represent emotions. Features - Free text & Multimedia Messaging between Users - Image/Location sharing - Password protection: Cannot be opened by other people - Privacy Guard Pro version feature: -No Advertise - Remove ads from the application. Pro version subscriptions Options: -Duration of the subscription is 1 Year with a charge of $4.99 every year. Buy Virtual Number: - Hide your private conversation from your personal cell phone bill. - Keep your personal phone number hidden from some contacts. - Send or receive messages from anywhere in the world. Buy Virtual Number Options: - 58.99$/year for countries like USA, Canada etc. - 102.99$/year for countries like Estonia, Latvia etc. Please note :- All subscriptions are auto renewable. Subscription will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can cancel your subscription any time by turning off auto-renewal in your iTunes Account Settings. You can manage your subscription in iTunes Account settings after purchase. -Find more information in our privacy policy, click on this link http://privatesmsbox.com/legal.html - For terms of use, click on this link http://privatesmsbox.com/termsofuse.html Excited to receive feedbacks or queries at: info@privatesmsbox.com
Fingerprint Lock Hide Message
Secure your private conversations and messages with advanced locking features. Easily back up and retrieve chats from popular messaging applications, ensuring your sensitive information remains protected and accessible only to you.
- Password or fingerprint lock
- Backup messages from popular apps
- Retrieve backed-up chats
- Easy to use interface
- Secure privacy for conversations
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Fingerprint Lock is the best way to secure your privacy and secret! You can make your conversations private easily. The Best and Secure app for your chats messages backup and retrieve. Main Features √ Lock your privacy with password or fingerprint √ Backup your messages in popular messaging applicatios such as WhatsApp, and access them whenever you need with password only √ Chat your friends and save this funny moment √ Easy to use NOTE: this app does note add a passcode to the WhatsApp app. ----- Information about the auto-renewable nature of the subscription - With subscribing you can lock & backup your chats without restriction. - Subscription periods are 1 month. Every 1 month your subscription renews. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. - You can cancel your subscription via this url: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 - Privacy policy: http://linwang.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/fingerprint/privacypolicy.html - Term of use: http://linwang.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/fingerprint/termsofservice.html DISCLAIMER Unofficial Product. Any product names, logos, brands, and other trademarks or images featured or referred to within this app are the property of their respective trademark holders. Any of these trademark holders are not affiliated with us, our products, or our apps. They do not sponsor or endorse this app or any of our online products.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Private Message Box at free with in-app purchases against Fingerprint Lock Hide Message's subscription. Private Message Box also leads on rating (2.9 vs 2.6). Fingerprint Lock Hide Message's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (17% vs 7%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Private Message Box sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and Fingerprint Lock Hide Message sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Private Message Box holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 66 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 7% of Private Message Box's written reviews are positive against 17% of Fingerprint Lock Hide Message's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Private Message Box ships an update monthly, Fingerprint Lock Hide Message every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Private Message Box | Fingerprint Lock Hide Message |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (20 ratings) — better | 2.6 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 6.7% of reviews | 17.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vartit Technology Private Limited | Dhani Jagatap |
Customer experience
Private Message Box
Fingerprint Lock Hide Message
In-app purchases
Private Message Box
- Proversion$4.991 Year
- Buy Number - Zone1 Yearly$21.991 Year
- Buy Number - Zone2 Yearly$58.991 Year
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- Buy Number - Zone3 Yearly$102.991 Year
- Get SMS Balance$6.99
Fingerprint Lock Hide Message
- Unlimited to backup chats3 Days trial$9.991 Month
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