Crypty - Secure communications
Secure texting and calling
Free
Crypty is the only secure communication solution for your messages, calls and files sharing.
Powerful, simple, instantaneous and illimited.
Crypty enables you to:
- Make and receive encrypted voice calls
- Send and receive encrypted text, voice and video messages
- Share your encrypted files
- Create group chats
- Create chatrooms
- Take and send encrypted pictures
- Use timed self-destruction option for messages
- Create a confidential live stream, with recording for later viewing
- Confidentially share your location
- Use your corporate servers (opzional)
- Wipe the Crypty app by remote
Crypty provides full end-to-end encryption. It is the only secure communication app whose on-device data is safe even from spy software.
more * New feature - Media quality selection
* Updated app icons
* Updates for iPad multi window mode
* iOS 26 compatibility
* Various bug fixes and performance improvements
9.8.0 Jun 11
- Do Not Disturb mode added.
- Custom Message reactions.
- Improved Situational Awareness: pending user list + improvements for reliability.
- Detailed coordinates now shown in live location message bubbles.
- Extended Diagnostic Test added.
- Crash fixes and stability improvements.
9.6.1 10/06/2025
What's New in 9.5.0
Map Screen Enhancements:
- Tactical Mapping Capabilities: Draw Tactical Symbols and apply custom or MGRS grids to any area on the map.
- Map Source Switching: Transition seamlessly between available server-based map styles.
- Coordinate System Support: Display locations in DMS, Coordinates, or MGRS formats, with a streamlined copy-paste function for effortless sharing.
- Live Status Update: Locations are now updated more frequently, with those not refreshed within seconds marked as offline for improved visibility.
Security and Access Improvements:
- Location Service Monitoring: Devices now report disabled location permissions to the server, enabling administrators to address configuration issues efficiently.
- Improved AppLock: A maximum retry limit enforces application lockdown upon repeated failed attempts, resolvable only by server administrators. Additionally, a PIN validator now rejects simplistic entries.
- QR Code Authentication: Users without passwords can re-authenticate via QR code scanning post-logout for uninterrupted access.
- Crash Reporting Refinement: An updated dialog enhances our ability to identify and resolve issues swiftly.
- Resolved bugs and optimizations
This release of Crypty introduces performance optimizations and bug resolutions, accompanied by a range of advanced features to enhance functionality.
9.5.0 05/27/2025
What's New in v9.4.0
- Major Upgrade:
Enhanced maps and mapping functionalities. Pins have been redesigned to provide clearer visual cues and new capabilities. Map layer pins can now hold various attachments, including images, documents, and videos. Additionally, live location pins pulse as they move, offering real-time information.
- Improvement:
All pop-ups have been redesigned for a more uniform appearance and improved functionality.
- Improvement:
Ephemeral audio and video calls now include authentication keywords, allowing users to verify the security of the call.
- New Feature:
Users can connect a secondary device without requiring a password. This feature is accessible under Settings > Account.
- Overall Improvements and Optimizations: Various enhancements have been made to optimize performance and user experience.
9.4.0 11/28/2024
What's New in v9.3.5
We're excited to bring you a series of powerful new features and improvements in this update:
- Offline Mode with PIN/Biometrics:
Access your messages offline using PIN or biometrics for enhanced security and convenience.
- Enhanced Emergency Mode:
Our improved emergency feature now supports sending short videos, providing more context in critical situations.
- Device Ring Selection:
Choose which of your devices will ring for incoming calls, giving you greater control and flexibility.
- Request Location Share:
Easily request live location sharing from chat directly for quick and efficient coordination.
- Call Waiting:
Never miss an important call with our new call waiting feature, ensuring you can manage multiple calls effortlessly.
- Improved Media Picker:
We’ve replaced our media picker with the system dialog, eliminating the need for Photos permissions while simplifying media selection.
- Push-to-talk hardware button support:
You can use a hardware button to trigger push to talk.
- Screen Sharing:
You can share your device screen in video calls and conference calls.
We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements! Your feedback is invaluable as we continue to enhance your experience.
Stay secure and connected!
9.3.5 08/28/2024
In this update, we're thrilled to bring you several improvements and fixes to enhance your experience:
Situational Awareness Enhancements:
Responses on maps are now more clearly visible, providing a better understanding of user statuses.
Tapping on a user response on the map reveals all the details.
Situational Awareness messages are now included in backups. Additionally, you can now retry sending if they failed previously.
Improvements:
The map no longer crashes when multiple users are sharing their live location.
The expiration time of ephemeral keys is now configurable, enabling server admins to extend the validity of ephemeral calls.
Threat detection now reports additional jailbreak techniques ant tools.
Resolved a bug where users, in a specific use-case, were not prompted for critical notifications permission.
We've addressed a visual issue with code blocks in message bubbles, ensuring a smoother and more polished chat experience.
We're committed to providing you with a secure and seamless messaging experience.
Stay secure and connected!
9.2.2 03/20/2024
What's New in v9.1
We're thrilled to introduce exciting new features and improvements in our latest update! Here's what's waiting for you:
1. Situational Awareness: Admins can now initiate situational checks in chatrooms, receiving participant responses along with their live locations.
2. Map Drawings: Express yourself on the map! Users can draw shapes, lines, and add points, making map interactions more dynamic and collaborative.
3. Offline Maps: No connection? No problem! Mark regions on maps to download and access them offline, ensuring you stay connected even in remote areas.
4. Emergency Signals: Your safety matters. Activate Emergency mode to send SOS signals with your location to designated responders. Even if their phone is muted, they'll receive an audible alert.
5. Refreshed Design: Enjoy a sleek new look across the entire app. We've refreshed the design for a more modern and user-friendly experience.
6. Edit My Account Page: Personalize your profile! The new edit my account page includes an option to change your avatar color, adding a touch of uniqueness to your identity.
7. Admin Control in Chatroom Calls: Admins now have the power to mute participants during chatroom calls, ensuring smooth and controlled communication.
8. Other Improvements: We've made several additional enhancements for a smoother experience:
- Message info now includes read timestamps.
- Improved message delivery reporting.
- Enhanced upload progress visibility for all files.
- YubiKey support now extends to USB-C, offering more flexibility and security options.
Stay secure and connected!
9.1.6 02/06/2024
What's New in Version 9.0.1:
New Features:
- Secure Messenger Lockdown: Now you can choose to lock the app immediately when it goes into the background or set a delay for added security.
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
- Backup WiFi export: Fixed issue with invalid QR code
- Crash Fix: We've resolved a crash issue related to mentions in chat drafts.
- Crash Fix: Fixed a crash that occurred when receiving incoming expired messages.
- Avatar Display: Sometimes, the user menu button (avatar) was not displayed. This has been fixed.
Thank you for using our app! We're committed to your privacy and security.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact our support team.
9.0.1 11/16/2023
We're excited to introduce a fresh and improved experience with our latest update!
Here's what's in store for you:
Introduction of User Side Menu: We've introduced a brand new feature - the user side menu. This menu makes managing your profile easier than ever before. You can now update your status text, presence, and profile image with just a few taps.
Refreshed Look: You'll notice a sleek new look throughout the app, featuring all-new icons and fonts for a modern and unified design.
Redesigned Chat Bubbles: Say hello to our redesigned chat message bubbles, enhancing your messaging experience with style and clarity.
Consistent User Avatars: Your avatar color is now consistent across all platforms, ensuring a seamless and recognizable presence.
Streamlined Settings and About Page: We've moved your settings from the bottom tab bar to the new side menu, which also houses our new About page. This provides easy access to personalize your app experience and learn more about us.
Enhanced Camera: iPad users, rejoice! We've introduced a new camera for iPad, and improved rotation for iPhone cameras for capturing those perfect moments.
Permissions-Based Features: Some app features will now adapt based on permissions set by administrators, ensuring a secure and tailored experience.
iOS 15 Requirement: To bring you the best possible experience, Crypty now requires a minimum iOS 15 version.
We hope you enjoy these exciting updates and enhancements! Your feedback is invaluable to us as we continue to improve your app experience.
Stay connected and keep enjoying Crypty!
9.0.0 09/29/2023
- Offline Mode: Unlock the app for reading messages even without an internet connection, perfect for when you're on a plane or in areas with limited connectivity. (Requires a YubiKey device.)
- Saved Messages: Mark important messages as saved, allowing you to quickly find and access them whenever you need to.
- Dynamic Font Sizing: The app now adopts the system font size, ensuring optimal readability based on your preferences.
- File Sharing from System Share Menu: With the new ability to share a file directly into Biocoded from a system share menu, you can now share content with even greater ease.
- Custom User Profile Images and Statuses: Your contacts are now easier to differentiate and the app has come even more alive with the addition of custom user profile images and statuses.
- Message reactions. You can now react to each message.
- Encrypted backup export/import.
- Search for a message within a chat.
- We are introducing a new type of chatrooms - public chatrooms.
8.4.3 08/24/2023
Crypty has a new way to protect your data! Actually multiple ways.
By opening Settings and Application Locking you can set the preferred way to protect your data, is it a PIN lock, Face ID or Touch ID lock or by using a YubiKey hardware key. You can also enable recovery keywords if desired.
Additionaly, in this new version we're introduction @mentions to Crypty.
When you want to let someone in a group know that a message is intended for him or her you can do that by using the @ character.
End-to-end encrypted location service now supports encrypted location history, which you can turn ON to see someones path that he or she took from the start to the current location.
And there is more - you can now send short videos directly from the integrated gallery.
We've also polished the app all around so it is more stable.
7.0.2 03/31/2022
improvements and bug fixes
6.6.4 08/15/2021
* Overall improvements on messaging events. Read reports will be delivered and visible on all chats now.
* Messages with expiration have a more streamlined user interface and are available on all chats now.
* Improved location sharing with real-time location sharing upgrade. Location sharing is supported on all chats now. Location sharing can be enabled for a preset duration, after which it will automatically deactivate.
6.6.3 08/03/2021
+ New reply message feature: You can now directly reply on any message in your conversations.
To reply to a message simply swipe over the message from left to right and press the reply button or press and hold on the message that you with to reply to and press reply.
You can interact and reply to any type of message - text, image or file.
6.4.3 04/30/2021
- Video calls! Users are now able to turn on camera in conference or chat room calls
- A new Call Screen
- New start conference call dialog on "Calls" tab
6.3.1 12/15/2020
New features:
+ Chatrooms. Create administered end-to-end encrypted chatrooms with up to 255 people. Send text messages and multimedia messages. Create conference rooms!
+ Conference rooms. Create voice meetings with up to 255 people.
Improvements:
+ Message drafts are now available.
+ Graphical updates. Messaging pane shows an icon depending on the type of chat.
+ Mark as read. Swiping left-to-right over a conversation will reveal "Mark as read" option on the chat.
+ Local database optimization
Other:
+ Redesigned push notifications.
6.0.3 08/02/2020
- Fixed sending live-photos on iOS13
4.1.2 01/13/2020
- Conference calls
- You are now able to turn off read receipts for individual chats
- Turning on Auto-delete for past content now requires code confirmation
- Forwarding files that have not been downloaded to your device
- Fixed crash on call hangup for some users
- Fixed "messages bubbles gone crazy" bug
- Fixed not working links on iOS13
4.1.1 11/05/2019
- added privacy profiles
- added auto-delete setting
- added forward message action
- added chat notifications costumizations
- added bandwidth
3.6.1 05/09/2019
- added contact suggestions
- redesigned contact requests
- improved iPhone X experience
- crash fixes when sending large files and deleting expired messages
3.5.0 08/30/2018
* New feature - Media quality selection
* Updated app icons
* Updates for iPad multi window mode
* iOS 26 compatibility
* Various bug fixes and performance improvements
more Version 9.8.0 Jun 11
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