Legitimacy and Reputation

• Both Cloaked (cloaked.com) and Aura (aura.com) are fully legitimate, established companies with no scam reports.
• Cloaked: US-based privacy app, praised by PCMag, TechCrunch, Forbes, and thousands of real users.
• Aura: Major all-in-one identity protection company, consistently ranked #1 or top 3 by Forbes, U.S. News, Security.org, Money.com, etc., and serves millions of customers.

Current Customer Ratings (as of November 2025)

• Cloaked
  • Trustpilot: ≈ 4.0/5 (hundreds of reviews)
  • App Store: 4.7–4.8/5
  • Google Play: 4.6/5
  • Overall user sentiment: Very good for spam reduction; some complaints about occasional support delays
• Aura
  • Trustpilot: ≈ 4.5–4.6/5 (thousands of reviews)
  • App Store & Google Play: 4.7–4.8/5
  • Overall user sentiment: Excellent for family plans and monitoring; rare billing or renewal complaints

Feature Comparison (Bullets)

Core Philosophy

• Cloaked → Prevent your real info from ever being shared (proactive masking)
• Aura → Monitor everything that’s already out there and protect devices (proactive + reactive)

Unlimited Email Aliases / Identities

• Cloaked → Yes, truly unlimited custom emails + forwarding
• Aura → No dedicated alias feature

Unlimited Phone Number Masking

• Cloaked → Yes, unlimited virtual phone numbers (receive unlimited calls/texts, outgoing limited on lower plans)
• Aura → No masking; instead has excellent AI robocall screening and blocking

Password Manager

• Cloaked → Built-in unlimited password manager
• Aura → Built-in password manager

Data Broker / People-Search Removal

• Cloaked → Automated removal from 120+ sites
• Aura → Automated removal from 140+ sites + Google search result removal

Dark Web & SSN Monitoring

• Both → Yes

Credit Monitoring

• Cloaked → No
• Aura → Full 3-bureau monitoring, real-time alerts, monthly score, $1–$5 million insurance

VPN

• Cloaked → Not yet (coming soon)
• Aura → Unlimited VPN on all devices

Antivirus / Malware Protection

• Cloaked → No
• Aura → Yes, full antivirus included

Identity Theft Insurance

• Cloaked → Up to $1 million per adult
• Aura → Up to $1 million per adult or $5 million total on family plans

Family & Parental Features

• Cloaked → Family plan available, share identities with partner/kids
• Aura → One of the strongest — covers 5 adults + unlimited kids, child SSN monitoring, social media/cyberbullying alerts, easy child credit freeze

Spam & Robocall Protection

• Both very strong, different approaches
  • Cloaked: Give out fake numbers → almost zero spam
  • Aura: AI call assistant answers and screens unknown callers

Pricing (approx, billed annually, individual plan)

• Cloaked → ~$120–150/year
• Aura → ~$144–180/year first year (often heavily discounted), then regular price

Best For

• Cloaked → People tired of spam, who sign up for lots of services, dating apps, online shopping, newsletters — anyone who wants to stop their real email/phone from ever leaking again
• Aura → Families, anyone who wants comprehensive credit/financial monitoring, antivirus, VPN, and strong child protection in one package

Both are excellent and trustworthy — just different tools for different jobs. Many power users actually run both together (Cloaked for masking + Aura for monitoring).