Ipgmail App Reviews

Worth every star.

Phillip Zimmerman (Google the Name) put PGP together and allowed people to communicate with other people (on the internet) freely without the fear of reprisals, retaliation, prison and jail, torture, persecution, and other government sponsored “goodies” - rightfully or wrongfully! This open coded app allows the public military level encryption. It is so powerful, once governments see its use, they/we concentrate on secondary surveillance techniques (reading the hard drives of sending or receiving computers) totally abandoning attempts to decode the message. I worked in SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) and I use this for personal emails.

This app is great if you are not familiar with PGP or encrypt in Messages. It is very user-friendly and works great!

[update] working perfectly, I love it, keep it up 🤙

Given the limitations of integrating security features into stock iOS apps, this works surprisingly well. It allows easy search of keyservers, import of existing public/private keys, and does most of the heavy lifting required to get a PGAp encrypted/signed email out the door. The UI feels a bit dated, but I’m more interested in the functionality, which it delivers. Well worth the money.

Excellent

Very poorly documented. Totally unclear how to decrypt incoming encrypted messages. Instructions in iPGMail website guide do not coincide with Mail app UI in iOS 10

It took a bit of work to get the keys in, I had to put in one key at a time through iTunes app section, but once they were in, I culd send email from the app. The app also lives in the share sheet so if someone sends a signed or encrypted, I and send the email from spoarrow to this app and have it verified and decypted. It would be amazing if Apple could to PGP on the native app, built in, but this is the next best thing. no more than 2 extra steps and it is quick.

I've been using this app for a while and it used to be much more difficult to use, these last few updates have really made it my go to for iOS gpg encryption. With just a few more tweaks it would be flawless. Keep up the good work!

Just started using it, is quite simple if you take the time to read a little bit.

Simple to use with basic but sufficient functionality. Copy/Paste to decrypt is annoying but that is iOS limitation - the other tools utilize the same method.

Took half an hour to get up and running. Cumbersome message transfer between apps to decrypt. Others tell me my messages appear oddly formatted and "corrupted." Just barely functional.

Still the best. Google Oauth update! Wow! This is the app I was looking for! Using encryption is always an extra exercise, but this program makes it as easy and straightforward as possible. Very nicely done, thank you!!! Enhancements have shown a solid, committed developer who cares! This is in my mind the original tool for iOS and is still the best! THIS IS THE APP YOU NEED AND THE ONE YOU WANT! AND THE ONLY REASONABLE PRICED ONE AT THAT!

The app is very useful but lacks a decent UX and user interface. For example, I can't search keys or names or addresses to send an encrypted email to.

I thought the image encryption didn't work and posted a review saying so. But I figured it out. Everything works great. Review edited.

I just downloaded this app, and downloaded my keys, but the app won't let me key in/decode my private key using my passphrase no matter how many times I give the correct key >:-/

App is great: great price, ability to generate keys unlike its more expensive competitor, sign and encrypt messages, and a responsive app developer. Did I already say the price is right? Yeah, sure some operations are kludgy, but it is most likely a function of the iOS. I had hoped it would have a couple of features that I can use instead of having to use other apps like PWsafe2 or Boxcryptor: • ability to encrypt AND sign a string of text (like login info that I can store in Notes); and • ability to encrypt AND sign files (currently, it can only encrypt but CANNOT sign) … ideally, I would like to encrypt and sign AND THEN, like the legacy PGPTools on the Windows platform, be able to create a detached signature to confirm the encrypted or original file is unchanged and/or un-corrupted since signing or encrypted/signed. I reached out to the developer, and while I understand there are no promises, the fee that I paid is a small contribution to future enhancements, even if, in its current state, my copy of iPGMail will be underused, for now, since I am using another app/solution for end-to-end encryption. Still, its simplicity cannot be overstated and the app developer actually has a day job that gives some assurance that his implementation – the weakest point in OpenPGP iterations – is sound. Will obviously revise review to 5 if my wish list were somehow incorporated and made functional.

iOS 7 user here. The nov 14 2015 release can't execute. It crashes on start up every time.

What can I say? So far it does what it says on the tin, if you will. since it works as advertised, I've got no complaints about it. Write, send, receive messages. Import, export, and create keys. manage your keyring. Sign and authenticate signatures. It works.

Do not go into this app thinking it is a mail client replacement. It is not. It is simple and precise way to encrypt emails. 5 stars on this one.

This is a well written and supported app. Works and does what it is supposed to with no muss or fuss. Now does symmetric encryption as well. The developer answers bug reports same day or next day. Well written, good track record and has excellent support.

The simplest and most organized PGP interaction I've ever had. Big ups to the creator and maintainer!

Plain, simple, gets the job done. Has every feature you'd want with no flourish

Needs the ability to remove the "using iPGMail" metadata.

If you use PGP, this is the app to compliment whatever you're using on your PC/Mac. Not the best UI, but that's ok...after all, we are talking about PGP :-p

App functions, except cannot set the mail server. Author is aware if this but update(s) have not fixed it.

Worked well with just one key, but as soon as I imported another, and tried to do anything else, app crashes (I am on most r cent update). Can't really use it at all, thus the low rating.

The latest version of the app simply crashes when trying to view or decrypt files. The attempt of the developer to fix crash issues on older devices causes the app to crash on devices that previously used to work.

Does an excellent job utilizing PGP, works with email, and maintains keys with ease. I can see it being a bit daunting to inexperienced PGP users, but just stick with it and rest easy knowing that your data can't so easily be obtained as it is on a regular basis. Don't put all of your eggs in one basket, relying on SSL/TLS to solely protect you. Amazing app, well done devs and keep up the good work!

the most recent update to 3.0.2 failed to install, claiming my ipad was no longer compatible.

This is a fantastic app that does exactly what it says. It's easy to use and works extremely well. I highly recommend this if you are looking for PGP on iOS.

Not perfect, but it gets the job done. Not supper user friendly.

Was very easy to get up and running to use on iphone when away from Thunderbird/Enigmail. Definitely better to setup SMTP manually, messages come through perfectly. It's obviously not as simple as an all-in-one client like on the desktop but great to know I won't get stuck on the iphone with the inability to have a solution that works.

Works overall. Has one minor bug where it won't prompt for the private key password until you switch away from the app to another app and then switch back. Only a pain during setup. Once your private keys are imported, tap them and enable Touch ID so you never have to enter password again.

I maintain a GnuPG encrypted file with important information which I share between my Linux and Windows systems. I want to be able to have access to that file anywhere, especially when I’m traveling, when I have my iPad or iPhone. IPGMail allowed me to copy over my encrypted file to both IOS devices along with my secret key file (which I deleted as soon as I imported it), and now I can decrypt and view the file anytime I need the information in it. Exactly what I needed! Previously I had been using OpenGP, but that is no longer available in the App Store and doesn’t work on IOS 12.

The app could really use a facelift to have a better design. Took me a while to import the private key but finally was able to do so. Everything else appears to work as expected though the login is a bit buggy as I had instances where the TouchID would go through but not unlock the app and had to force quit.

App crashed after I updated 3.5.8 then I tap the Files menu button on iOS 9

Simply doesnt import keys from external source. Not via dropbox. Not via itunes. Simply does not work.

Forget the overpriced bloatware from Symantec. This has become the standard for which iPhone PGP apps aspire. Priced right, it does the job and continues to be improved upon by it's developer. Well done and very much worth the price.

iOS is not allow you to build encryption and decryption and the mail app. Given the limitations of iOS this is the best option available. And it works very very well.

Hope they continue to add features.. One really important feature I want to see is the he ability to copy text anywhere and by using the share option to decrypt data...

This is a very good solution for Open PGP on iOS. It just works, has good features, is basically exactly what you need if you want to use Open PGP (the only encryption one should trust) on iOS. Thanks developer!

I am unable to locate where to receive the encrypted messages and how to decrypt them !!! Any help

This app provides almost everything I want from a PGP app for iOS. It's as close as the platform will allow for native Mail integration. Not fully integrated with the Mail app, but you can send encrypted messages from accounts saved on your device. Decryption is trickier -- you have to import encrypted content and decrypt from iPGMail. Still, not bad. And you can import your private keys via Airdrop. You don't have to expose them to the cloud at all, though you can also use Dropbox or iCloud if you want. The place where this app is lacking is attention to detail in the interface. The basic interface makes sense, but the layout is a little clumsy in places. Still, this is a very good app for a good price. Recommended if you use PGP, including via keybase.io.

Really solid app. Setup wasn't the most intuitive, but it only took 30 sec googling to figure out how to import my keys.

A: it works, and B: it is fairly easy to use. Really cool to find a working mobile Openpgp implantation that works and doesn't require a Ph.D. Well worth the money.

This is not a graphic or CPU-intensive app, so it's disappointing that iPhone 4S support was dropped in this release, particularly when the 4S is still supported by the latest version of iOS.

Been using this for about 2 years now and it hasn’t disappointed. Now uses Face ID as well!

This is simply the best pgp app that I've found for iOS, and I've tried many others. Probably the only gripe that I have is that you can't select the particular symmetric encryption algorithm (when using symmetric encryption) that you want. It simply uses the default algorithm.

Works well, Touch ID integration is great, but would be really nice to have a way to select all local clear copies for deletion