Secret Folder vs ScreenShield
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Secret Folder
Securely hide your personal photos and videos behind a password-protected folder. Import content, take private media directly within the app, and manage it all with organized albums. Additional features include a decoy password, export options, secret notes, and an app disguise.
- Password protection
- Hide photos and videos
- Import from camera roll
- Private camera/video capture
- Album management
- Decoy password
- Secret notes
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Hide your photos and videos in a secret folder protected with password. - Import content from your device's camera roll. - Take a picture or capture a video, it's PRIVATE. - Create and manage your albums. - Decoy password: setup some fake photos as a second defense. - Export content to your phone - Create secret notes for things to remember like link, text or contact. - Disguise your app as a calculator Enjoy watching your videos with full privacy and security.
ScreenShield
This app creates a visual illusion of system processes like software updates or disk cleanups to deter unwanted attention. It uses realistic progress bars and messages to create a distraction, with a hidden gesture to exit safely. Designed for privacy and entertainment.
- Simulated software updates and lockdowns
- Realistic progress bars and system messages
- Customizable durations and modes
- Hidden exit gesture
- Visual-only simulations
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ScreenShield is a privacy-focused simulation app designed to deter unwanted attention and protect your screen from prying eyes. Whether you’re in a public space, around nosy friends, or just want to create a digital distraction, ScreenShield simulates realistic system activities like software updates, firmware installs, and disk cleanups to discourage interaction. With professionally styled progress bars, file logs, and optional sound effects, ScreenShield creates the illusion that your device is in the middle of a critical operation. Each simulation is fully visual—no actual system changes are made. When you’re ready to exit, simply triple-tap the screen to return safely to the home screen. This hidden gesture ensures no one else can easily break the illusion. Key Features: • Simulated software updates, lockdowns, and cleanups • Realistic progress bars, system messages, and countdowns • Customizable durations and modes • Optional premium unlock for longer sessions • Designed for entertainment, privacy, and deterrence Note: This app does not make actual changes to your system. All simulations are visual and for deterrent purposes only.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Secret Folder at free against ScreenShield's paid. Secret Folder also leads on ratings volume (74 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). ScreenShield's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Secret Folder costs $0.99 and ScreenShield $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScreenShield holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Secret Folder has 74 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Secret Folder | ScreenShield |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (74 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tung Nguyen | Jimmy Louis |
Customer experience
Secret Folder
ScreenShield
In-app purchases
Secret Folder
No in-app purchases
ScreenShield
No in-app purchases









