Zing Messenger vs Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zing Messenger
Securely connect with friends and family through encrypted messaging, voice calls, and conferences. Control your status and location sharing for enhanced privacy. Enjoy free communication with robust security features.
- Encrypted messaging
- Voice calls
- Conferencing
- Status sharing control
- Location sharing control
- Secure connections
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Zing provides free and secure messaging, conferencing and voice calls. All connections to and from server for messages, data and calls are securely encrypted. You can control sending your status and location. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Chat
This secure messaging app connects you with friends and family globally using your phone's internet. It offers fast, end-to-end encrypted communication without subscriptions or ads. Easily access contacts and keep in touch, even with offline message storage.
- End-to-end encryption
- Free messaging
- No subscription required
- Fast message delivery
- Offline message storage
- Profile photo upload
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Chat-In is an app that allows you messaging with your friends and family. Chat-In which is compatible with IOS smartphones uses your phone Internet connection (4G,3G,2G or Wi-Fi) for your communication. Keep in touch with your loved ones! And even it is easy to use, fast, secure and free! WHY Chat-In? FREE: No subscription fee, no adds and always free. You can send messages for free whenever you like and wherever you are. Chat your friends who are all over the world without any international SMS fee.(*) SECURE: Our mission is to send your messages concealing from third parties. Chat-In encrypts messages with End- to- End -Encryption and do not share them. FAST: We know that your messages are important and that is why we are transferring them instantly. NO SUBSCRIPTION: No need to subscribe or log on. Chat-In easily access to your contacts without any need for you to remember username and it gets you to keep in touch with your friends. OFFLINE MESSAGES: Don't panic! when your phone is turned off or when you don't have Internet connection. Chat-In keeps your last messages until you reopen the app. ADDITIONAL SPECIFICATIONS: You can know the time of seen messages You can upload any photo that you like to your profile Try it and discover more! (*) Data charges may apply.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chat at none against Zing Messenger's 3. Chat also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (21 vs 2). Zing Messenger's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 23%) and rating (3.5 vs 3.3). 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. Zing Messenger sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Chat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Zing Messenger holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chat has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Zing Messenger's written reviews are positive against 23% of Chat's.
Zing Messenger ships an update every 5 weeks, Chat fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zing Messenger | Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | 3.3 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 23.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Global Solutions Inc | KALE ILERI TEKNOLOJI |
Customer experience
Zing Messenger
Chat
In-app purchases
Zing Messenger
- GAPP Credit$1.99
- GAPP Credit$4.99
- Gapp Credit$9.99
Chat
No in-app purchases
