Monster Messenger vs ZZZ GhostChat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monster Messenger
This app provides a secure and engaging platform for children to communicate with friends and family. It allows for sharing photos, voice messages, drawings, and text, all under strict parental control and with a zero-tolerance bullying policy.
- Photo, voice, drawing, and text messaging
- Cute sticker library
- Photo personalization
- Collection pinning and sharing
- Full parental control
- Reporting and blocking features
- Zero-bullying policy
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Monster Messenger is a safe instant messaging app for our little monsters. With Monster Messenger, kids communicate with their friends and family in a safe, fun and creative way! GROW UP WITH LOVE! Monster Messenger enables children and their relatives to exchange all these little daily signs of love and reinforcement that are oh-so important to help children to grow up in harmony and confidence. Sharing with your child a photo, a voice message, a drawing or a short text message gives you instant presence by your child, wherever you are. Your child can also safely communicate with family members and closest friends, because you validate all invitations received, and sent. With Monster Messenger, share all day long with your children what matters most for their growth: your love. Loaded with fun features: ‣ Photos, drawings, voice and text messages ‣ Tons of cute stickers to share ‣ Personalize your photos with stickers, drawings and text! ‣ Pin your favorite pictures to your collection ‣ Discover your friends' collections, like their images and enrich your own collection with the best ones A kid-safe experience: ‣ Full parental control: parents manage their children’s accounts, invitations, have access to their contact lists and can block contacts at any time ‣ Simple one-swipe gesture to report a conversation or to block a user ‣ 0-bullying tolerance policy: we invite children to think twice before sending some inappropriate messages ‣ Kid-safe and kid-appropriate content and behavior only are allowed within the App ‣ Professional trained moderators enforce anti-bullying, safe content and behavior policies ‣ Children (and all users') personal data is covered by a public privacy policy. In plain English: all of your children’s personal information (including conversations) is encrypted and never shared with any third party. One more thing: Monster Messenger is 100% free! :) Monster Messenger is created by eduPad, whose educational apps are already used by 10 million children in 146 countries.
ZZZ GhostChat
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ZZZ GhostChat is a peer-to-peer mesh chat app that uses no server at all. Nearby devices connect directly over Bluetooth to exchange messages. No account, no phone number, no email — and everything you create stays only on your own device. ■ Great for ・Staying in touch with the people around you — a classroom, club, or event ・Quick messages at festivals, campsites, or while traveling where signal is weak ・When you just want to chat casually with whoever is right here, right now ■ Highlights ・Serverless: there is no operator server. Your messages are never gathered anywhere ・No sign-up: just pick a nickname and an emoji avatar and start ・End-to-end encryption with forward secrecy ・Mesh relay: messages can hop through in-between devices to reach friends just out of range ・One-to-one and group chat ・Pairing approval: connecting with someone new requires their consent (auto-pairing is OFF by default) ・Read/delivery receipts, message deletion, unread badges ・Block / mute / report anyone you’d rather not see ・Light / Dark mode, English and Japanese ■ How it works / please note ・Communication travels over Bluetooth radio, so you need to be physically near the other person ・This is a lightweight tool for casual nearby messaging. Some metadata (who is communicating, and when) may be observable nearby. Please don’t send sensitive personal information ・Uninstalling permanently deletes all stored data (messages, contacts, groups, keys)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Monster Messenger at every 3 weeks against ZZZ GhostChat's every 6 weeks. Monster Messenger also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Monster Messenger ships an update every 3 weeks, ZZZ GhostChat every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monster Messenger | ZZZ GhostChat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (703 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 703 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Centres Relier | SMOLT STAGE, K.K. |
In-app purchases
Monster Messenger
No in-app purchases
ZZZ GhostChat
No in-app purchases
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