TalkKing vs Cipchat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TalkKing
Connect with friends from your address book through live chat and messaging. Share text, photos, and even offline messages that are delivered when your friends are online. It offers a free alternative for instant communication.
- Live chat with friends
- Send text messages
- Share photos
- Offline message delivery
- Add friends from address book
- Free SMS invitations
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TalkKing is a live-chat application that allows you to add friends from your address book into the app. It is also named as TalkKing,Talk King,齐聊,齊聊,乜都傾,SMS,Instant Message,Whatsapp,WeChat,Facebook,LINE,Skype,MSN,Telegram. With TalkKing, you can send text messages, photos, and even offline messages to your friends. Whenever your friends open TalkKing, they can receive your offline messages or directly have a live chat with you! To receive the validation code when registering, please use your mobile phone number. An alternative to WhatsApp. 1. Free SMS 2. Send photos 3. Add friends from your phone's address book 4. Send invitation to your friends by Free SMS 5. Receive live message and notifications
Cipchat
This app provides secure messaging with end-to-end encryption and messages that disappear after being read. It also offers encrypted voice and video calls for private online communication.
- End-to-end encryption
- Burn after reading messages
- Encrypted voice calls
- Encrypted video calls
- Securely send text, pictures, GIF, audio, and video
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【Features】 End-to-end encryption and burn after reading. Safely escort every message you have. 【Encrypted video call】 Encrypted voice and video calls, free online communication anytime, anywhere. 【Safe Communication】 Your personal information and address book have been encrypted end-to-end, only you and your friends can view it, and no third party can obtain it, and neither can Cipchat. 【Burn after reading】 The sent information is automatically eliminated after reading, so there is no need to worry about the content of the chat being leaked. 【Diversified Communication】 Send text, pictures, GIF, audio, and video in an end-to-end encrypted way for interactive communication, making chat safe everywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cipchat at 4.8 against TalkKing's 4.3. Cipchat also leads on ratings volume (61 vs 4) and review sentiment (20% vs 11%). TalkKing's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cipchat holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cipchat has 61 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of TalkKing's written reviews are positive against 20% of Cipchat's.
TalkKing ships an update monthly, Cipchat every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TalkKing | Cipchat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (61 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.5% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 61 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 205 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Reasonable Software | ZERO & ONE SOFTWARE PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
TalkKing
Cipchat
In-app purchases
TalkKing
No in-app purchases
Cipchat
No in-app purchases
