Comparison

Private Message Box vs Feud for Thought

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Password protected conversations
  • Free texting between users
  • Send unlimited text, photo, and location
  • Full emoji support
  • Virtual number for hidden communication
  • Privacy Guard
Features
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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

About

Feud for Thought

Engage in structured debates with others, where you can challenge friends or strangers to a "feud." Users present claims and argue their points, with the community voting on the winner. Build your reputation based on your debate success.

Highlights
  • Create and join structured debates (feuds)
  • Challenge friends or random users
  • Community voting and liking system
  • Follow users and their public content
  • Profile customization and friend management
  • Vote weight based on past performance
Features
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A feud is a debate between two users and it consists of a name, a claim, an anonymity setting (whether the profiles of the protagonists are visible to others) and an end date. It works like this: someone (we call him “proponent”) starts a feud by proposing a name, a claim, an anonymity and an end date to the other person; the other party (known as “opponent”) has to agree with the name, agree to oppose the claim, and agree on whether the feud should be public or private and on the end date of the whole affair (the opponent can ask for changes to any of these initial terms and then it’s the proponent’s turn to either agree or propose new changes, and so on); once the terms are agreed upon, the feud becomes active and the two parties will try to convince each other to concede by the end date in order to win. Other users can vote, like and share the feud, they can follow the proponent and opponent if the feud is public, they can leave a comment if they've voted and they can follow one another if they so choose. If neither the proponent nor the opponent have conceded by the end date, the app counts the votes and declares a winner. Each user has a specific vote weight, based on how right they've been over the past three months (either by winning their own feuds or by voting for the winning party in others' feuds). Feud for Thought allows users to register an account; set up various profile elements; add as friends, block and report users; follow users to get their publicly available content; challenge their friends to feuds; vote, like, share, block and report other users' feuds; engage in feuds with random other users through a special type of feud called an open feud.

Screenshots

Private Message Box4 screens
Feud for Thought1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Feud for Thought at 4.3 against Private Message Box's 2.9. Feud for Thought also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). Private Message Box's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Private Message Box sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Feud for Thought asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Feud for Thought holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 7% of Private Message Box's written reviews are positive against 0% of Feud for Thought's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Private Message Box ships an update monthly, Feud for Thought weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Private Message Box versus Feud for Thought: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrivate Message BoxFeud for Thought
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (20 ratings)4.3 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews6.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better6
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB55 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperVartit Technology Private LimitedAlecu Truica

Customer experience

Private Message Box

All ratings20 ratings
Positive45.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative55.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive6.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative86.7%

Feud for Thought

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Private Message Box

Subscriptions4
  • 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
One-time1
  • Get SMS Balance$6.99
None

Feud for Thought

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Private Message Box free?
Private Message Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Feud for Thought free?
Feud for Thought is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Private Message Box or Feud for Thought?
Feud for Thought is rated higher. Private Message Box averages 2.9 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Feud for Thought averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Private Message Box or Feud for Thought have ads?
Private Message Box shows ads; Feud for Thought does not.
Which is updated more often, Private Message Box or Feud for Thought?
Private Message Box ships an update monthly, and Feud for Thought weekly. Most recently, Private Message Box was updated on October 1, 2026 and Feud for Thought on October 6, 2026.

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