--- title: "Paranoia Text Encryption Lite - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "• Paranoia Text Encryption is a comprehensive text encryption application for iOS devices (iPhone/iPad/iPod) and macOS, developed by Paranoia Works. • Paranoia Text Encryption safeguards your notes, S" --- # Paranoia Text Encryption Lite — United States > (encrypt notes, messages, …) ![Paranoia Text Encryption Lite App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/be/fd/c2/befdc2dd-2bd3-67d5-c0d6-7bd118e1bc4b/AppIconLite-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-10-0-85-220-0.png/400x400bb.png) **Developer:** [Frantisek Dvorak](https://apptail.io/developer/frantisek-dvorak-jmo) **Category:** Utilities **Rating:** 4.5/5 (84 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.paranoiaworks.Paranoia-Text-Encryption-Lite **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 3.14 (released 2026-07-27) **Original Release:** 2016-04-30 **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1092955070) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/paranoia-text-encryption-lite-fcxd/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/paranoia-text-encryption-lite-fcxd/united-states) ## Paranoia Text Encryption Lite Description • Paranoia Text Encryption is a comprehensive text encryption application for iOS devices (iPhone/iPad/iPod) and macOS, developed by Paranoia Works. • Paranoia Text Encryption safeguards your notes, SMS messages, emails, social networking posts, cryptocurrency keys (seeds, mnemonics), and any other text from unwanted readers. • Simply copy and paste text to and from your favorite applications, or save it to a file for future use. • This app does not function as a "vault application." Instead, a password is set for the current encryption/decryption session, not to enter the app itself. You may use an unlimited number of passwords for any purpose—different files, tasks, people, etc. • The app guarantees robust security by encrypting data using strong encryption algorithms: Blowfish (448-bit), AES (256-bit), RC6 (256-bit), Serpent (256-bit), and Twofish (256-bit) ciphers. • Steganography: The application includes steganographic features, allowing you to conceal text or files within a JPEG image. Two algorithms are available: J-UNIWARD (content-adaptive, minimizes visual distortion, harder to detect) and F5 (matrix encoding, efficient embedding). The selected algorithm works with the chosen symmetric cipher to produce the final steganogram. • Key Encapsulation (KEM): Securely exchange encryption passwords using the post-quantum ML-KEM mechanism (NIST FIPS 203). Two parties can establish a shared password without ever transmitting it directly, with protection against future quantum computer attacks. ◆ Differences between Free and PRO versions: The PRO version offers additional encryption algorithms, specifically Threefish (1024-bit), SHACAL-2 (512-bit), and Paranoia C4 (2048-bit), which is a cascade of Threefish–Serpent–AES–SHACAL-2. While the free version can decrypt data encrypted by these advanced algorithms, the ability to encrypt data using these algorithms is exclusive to the PRO version. The PRO version also provides a key to activate the PRO versions of desktop applications: Paranoia File & Text Encryption for PC, Paranoia Text Encryption for PC, and S.S.E. File Encryptor for PC. • The application is natively compatible with macOS (10.15 and later). Versions for other systems and platforms can be downloaded from the application homepage: • An online (web-based) version, utilizing AES and client-side JavaScript, and other utilities are available at ## Paranoia Text Encryption Lite Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/de/e0/89/dee0897b-c51a-71a8-2543-6549d729983b/mzl.slfgssri.png/640x960.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/ac/f3/6b/acf36bb2-529a-19c7-8d7b-1be9ee575f34/mzl.jdihegng.png/640x960.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/37/ac/cd/37accdd3-0d49-3b1c-c027-314eed18e7d3/mzl.zyhiguti.png/640x960.png) ## Paranoia Text Encryption Lite Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 67 (80%) - 4 stars: 4 (5%) - 3 stars: 4 (5%) - 2 stars: 3 (4%) - 1 stars: 6 (7%) ## Paranoia Text Encryption Lite Reviews in United States ### ***** "Trust" I no longer trust the easy online wallets for passwords and codes. I use PTE and rotation passwords and have for the last couple of years. My ID has been robbed at least 3 times through data breaches hitting the US gov and other places. TRUST no one. Encrypt your sensitive data yourself. Freeze your credit history. -- Professional Pilot too, 2024-09-25 ### ***** "Great app" Straightforward text encryption with multiple variations of method. I also love the added feature of hiding text in pictures. Great job. Very cool indeed. -- Huskerfan69, 2023-02-28 ### *---- "disappointed" "upgrading" to Monterey destroyed my ability to use 90% of my legacy software, including iStego. While searching for any free steganography software that was free and usable on my now crippled mac mini (thanks for nothing Monterey), this Paranoia Text Encryption software claimed it could do steganography. Instead of conveniently letting you drop a file of your choice onto an image of your choice and ending up with a file hidden in an image with little fuss, PTE makes it practically impossible. Perhaps someone will figure it out, but my patience wore thin and I gave up after wasting time. Not intuitive or user friendly, and not worth the time I wasted trying to get it to work. -- Fleischfresserarbeiter, 2022-07-03 ### **--- "Not For Infrequent Users" Each time i use this i type a bunch of great ideas, then proceed to irretrievably lose everything I types - zilch! The terrible part about this program is it is not prepared for people like me that has not memorized all the controls and don’t realize that after i create encrypted text and i think im cleaning up the readable text so i hit the broom, and EVERYTHING I JUST TYPED IS IRRETRIEVABLY GONE WITHOUT ANY WARNING, so its my fault that it doesnt have safeguards for human operators. So, not for me. -- Macabre-Book, 2021-12-08 ### ***-- "Scroll" I have the same problem as yazo675 -- lonely787, 2021-05-28 ### ***** "Happy but learning" Using iPad mini, I noticed that my password from yesterday’s session was still enabled when I went to decrypt the same text I was experimenting the night before. Maybe I didn’t exit my previous session properly. Otherwise quite pleased with the product. Will do some further investigation. I exited the session pressing the “Home” button which is typical iPad, iPod practice. Probably a user error 😌 -- 4130john, 2021-04-30 ### **--- "Scroll" The concept of this app is awesome, I just can actually utilize it because when I go to decrypt something I CAN’T SCROLL UP TO READ IT! Would be a 5 star but as the functionality of the app is in operable, I will give it 2. Will change rating if the Devs. fix this soon. -- Yazo675, 2020-12-03 ### ***** "great - with some critical thoughts" Bruce Schneier newsletters made us all aware that security software can work flawlessly for years, look and feel good, and still be “snake oil” - not protecting your data if the attacker has unlimited access to your files, enough time and resources. I cannot check whether the code implementation of PTE has any flaws, but I like the idea, UI and functionality. 5 stars for this. BUT ... if your data were critically important, or a question of life and death ... ? Sorry to see that the support email address has been deleted. I consider this another reason to repeat my above concerns. Other than this, a detailed list of PRO features vs. light features would be nice. I couldn’t find it. If PRO is just a way to donate, just say so, I would happily contribute. -- whatamesswithnicknames, 2020-04-22 ### ***** "Great" Every thing else is awesome. I wish it had RSA support too. -- id33ps, 2020-04-08 ### ***** "Simple solution" No bells and whistles. Does what I need it to. -- Stardust Tesseract, 2020-02-15 [View all Paranoia Text Encryption Lite reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://app.apptail.io/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Paranoia Text Encryption Lite Discovered Keywords - encrypt - paranoia text encryption lite - encryption - steganography - text encryption ## Apps Similar to Paranoia Text Encryption Lite - [Steganography: Hidden Message](https://apptail.io/app/steganography-hidden-message-HNW/united-states) - [Base64 Encoder Decoder](https://apptail.io/app/base64-encoder-decoder-kDtb/united-states) - [Sub Cipher](https://apptail.io/app/sub-cipher-KXwb/united-states) - [Arrowat Encryptor](https://apptail.io/app/arrowat-encryptor-zDqd/united-states) - [OneCrypt - 文件加密](https://apptail.io/app/onecrypt-tLDn/united-states) - [AES256 Encrypt and Decrypt](https://apptail.io/app/aes256-encrypt-and-decrypt-PFSn/united-states) - [TextCrypt - Encrypted Storage](https://apptail.io/app/textcrypt-encrypted-storage-nrio/united-states) - 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