What sets Captilo apart

Captilo is built so that your evidence never has to sit with a vendor. That one decision makes it cheaper per photo, leaves less to secure, and turns a handover into one email. Below: the published prices, the handover, the architecture, and a sourced comparison with four other products.

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Cost: cents per photo, not dollars

Because Captilo does not store, host or review your photos, a proof costs little to make. Prices as each vendor publishes them; units differ, and an inspection can hold several photos.

Published prices, as of 4 October 2026
Product	Published price	What it covers
Captilo Business	$199 a monthabout $0.07 per photo	3,000 photos, up to 50 people
Captilo Team	$49 a monthabout $0.10 per photo	500 photos, up to 10 people
TrueScreen	up to €2²⁴	per certification; Business from €99 a month
Truepic Vision	$28–65⁷	per inspection above a Standard plan’s volume (overage); Flex from $1,000 a month; custom pricing above 10,000 inspections a year

What a year could cost at high volume

Example: a claims or site team documenting 3,000 photos a month, 36,000 a year, each photo certified on its own. Truepic charges per inspection, not per photo; we assume 10 photos per inspection.

Captilo Business: 12 × $199; $2,388
TrueScreen: 36,000 × up to €2²⁴; up to about €72,000
Truepic Vision: 3,600 inspections × $28–65 published overage rate⁷; about $100,800–234,000

These are illustrative scenarios from published prices, not like-for-like quotes. Captilo’s figure is the plan price used within its limits. The competitor figures use list or maximum pay-per-use rates before subscriptions, volume commitments, negotiated enterprise prices and taxes, and the products include different workflows and services.

Handover: one email

A Captilo certificate is self-contained. It carries the photo, its full signed record and everything a court, an insurer or the other side needs to check it themselves. No portal access, no account, no export project.

1. Send: Attach the PDF certificate to an email with a short explanation. That is the whole handover.
2. They check: The recipient drops the certificate on captilo.app/verify, or checks it with free tools against the public blockchain, without us.How anyone can verify it
3. They read up: The chain of custody, from shutter to blockchain, is explained step by step on this site. The time comes from a qualified eIDAS timestamp, which EU law presumes to be accurate (Art. 41(2)).The chain of custody

Security: built for the worst case

Attacks are getting cheaper and more frequent as AI automates them. Captilo assumes its own servers could one day be breached, and is built so that even then no customer photo can be stolen: the photos never reach us. Only your team holds them, and a photo leaves a phone only when someone there chooses to share or publish it.

The EU cybersecurity agency ENISA reports that AI-supported phishing made up more than 80% of observed social engineering activity worldwide by early 2025, and that phishing was the entry point for 60% of intrusions in the EU.³

Your photos can’t be stolen from us

Captilo does not store your photos, names, email addresses or locations. Photos stay on the phones that took them; our servers receive fingerprints, a signature and a pseudonymous ID. Even a breach of Captilo’s own servers would reveal none of that about your company or your people.

What our servers hold

Team work encrypted end to end

Team names, member names, tasks and the thumbnails a team shares are encrypted on the phones. Captilo stores them only as ciphertext it cannot read.

Checkable without us

Every proof sits on a public blockchain and carries a qualified eIDAS timestamp. Anyone can check a certificate with free tools, even if Captilo no longer exists.

Verify without Captilo

Every request signed

The phone signs each proof, every request carries a one-time code, and the device itself is checked at capture. A forged or replayed submission is refused.

Side by side with four other products

As of 4 October 2026. Every statement links to its public source. “Not publicly documented” means we found no public source for it, not that the feature is missing. Vendors change their products; tell us at contact@captilo.app if a cell is out of date and we will correct it.

Comparison of photo provenance products, as of 4 October 2026
Criterion	Captilo	Truepic	ProofMode	Numbers Capture Cam	TrueScreen
Platforms	Android; iOS coming soon¹	Vision: mobile browser and app; Lens SDK for iOS and Android⁶	Android, iOS; web verifier¹²	iOS, Android¹⁸	iOS, Android, web, browser extension, API²²
Where the photos are kept	On the capturing phone¹	Truepic’s platform, in the EEA, Switzerland, UK or US^8,11	On the phone; the user decides what to share^13,14	IPFS by default, Filecoin optional¹⁹	TrueScreen cloud in EU data centres^26,28
Public check, no account	Yes: captilo.app/verify¹	C2PA manifest in the file, readable by any C2PA validator¹⁰	Yes: web verifier, no account¹²	Yes: Numbers Verify Engine, no sign-in²⁰	Yes: in the browser on TrueScreen’s site²⁷
Still checkable if the vendor shuts down	Yes: free tools against the public blockchain^1,2	The C2PA signature in the file; inspection records are kept on Truepic’s platform^10,8	Yes: open-source tools and Bitcoin timestamps¹⁴	Record on a public blockchain; a full check without Numbers is not documented^18,20	Not established: checks run on TrueScreen’s site²⁷
On the official C2PA conformance list	Yes: conformant generator, assurance level 1⁵	No matching product in the public list⁵	Yes (Android and iOS)⁵	This app not listed (other Numbers products are)⁵	Not listed; vendor states C2PA support^5,26
Anchored on a public blockchain	Yes: Sonic¹	Not claimed on current pages⁹	Yes: Bitcoin, via OpenTimestamps¹⁴	Yes: Numbers Mainnet¹⁸	Vendor states a blockchain record; chain not named²⁶
Capture details anchored, not only the photo	Yes: time, place and device have their own hash on the chain, next to the photo’s^1,2	Not publicly documented	Photo hash only (OpenTimestamps); the details are signed with the app’s key, not anchored¹⁷	Not publicly documented	Not publicly documented
Qualified eIDAS timestamp	Yes: APED (Greece)^1,4	Own timestamp authority, optional; qualified status not stated¹¹	RFC 3161 via DigiCert, plus OpenTimestamps; qualified status not stated¹⁶	None found in the app’s source code²¹	Yes: qualified electronic timestamp and seal (vendor-stated)^23,26
Device check at capture	Play Integrity / App Attest¹	Device integrity check; attestation method not named^9,11	Play Integrity via ProofSign, on by default (Android)^15,16	None found in the app’s source code²¹	Device information recorded; attestation not stated²⁵
Public pricing	Business: $199 a month for 3,000 photos, Team: $49 for 500. Free: 5 a month	Flex from $1,000 a month; Standard overage $28–65 per inspection; custom above 10,000 inspections a year. No published free tier; free demo inspection⁷	Free, open source¹⁴	Free app; blockchain registration may incur network fees¹⁸	2 free certifications, then up to €2 each; Business from €99 a month²⁴

What they have in common

All of these products use cryptographic provenance: typically a hash of the photo, usually SHA-256, which changes completely if a single pixel changes. They differ in how they hash, sign, timestamp and let others verify that record.

They differ in who keeps the evidence and who has to vouch for it. A public blockchain lets anyone check the record without asking the vendor. A qualified timestamp under the EU eIDAS regulation carries a legal presumption that the time is accurate. C2PA Content Credentials put the provenance into the image file in an open format.

Other projects work in the same field with a narrower audience: eyeWitness to Atrocities collects evidence for human rights investigations, and Click by Nodle is a consumer camera app. We left them out of the table because they serve a different purpose.

Sources

All accessed 4 October 2026.

1. captilo.app: https://captilo.app/
2. Verify a Captilo proof without Captilo: https://captilo.app/independent-verification
3. ENISA Threat Landscape 2025: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/enisa-threat-landscape-2025
4. Greek trusted list (EU eIDAS): APED Qualified Timestamping Issuing CA, status granted: https://www.eett.gr/tsl/tl-el.xml
5. C2PA conforming products list (linked from c2pa.org/conformance): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/c2pa-org/conformance-public/main/conforming-products/conforming-products-list.json
6. Truepic: https://truepic.com/
7. Truepic pricing: https://truepic.com/pricing
8. Truepic: C2PA capture: https://www.truepic.com/c2pa/capture
9. Truepic Vision: verification checks: https://www.truepic.com/capture
10. Truepic Lens API documentation: https://vision.truepic.dev/docs/lens-api
11. Truepic Lens terms (MSA): https://www.truepic.com/lens-msa
12. ProofMode: https://proofmode.org/
13. ProofMode: about: https://proofmode.org/about
14. ProofMode for Android (source code): https://github.com/guardianproject/proofmode-android
15. ProofSign Identify: https://proofmode.org/identify
16. ProofMode for Android, source code (commit 4f9e545, 25 Sep 2026): https://github.com/guardianproject/proofmode-android
17. ProofMode: how to verify (OpenTimestamps covers the media file; proof data is PGP-signed): https://proofmode.org/verify
18. Numbers Capture Cam: https://captureapp.xyz/products/capture-cam/
19. Capture App FAQ: where assets are stored: https://docs.captureapp.xyz/faq/capture-assets/
20. Numbers Verify Engine: https://verify.numbersprotocol.io/
21. Capture Cam source code (commit 1e172aa, 15 Sep 2026): https://github.com/numbersprotocol/capture-lite
22. TrueScreen: https://www.truescreen.io/
23. TrueScreen: qualified electronic timestamps: https://truescreen.io/fr/articles/qualified-electronic-timestamps-legal-value/
24. TrueScreen pricing: https://truescreen.io/pricing/
25. TrueScreen photo verification: https://truescreen.io/photo-verification
26. TrueScreen FAQ: https://truescreen.io/faq/
27. TrueScreen: verify certifications: https://truescreen.io/verify-certifications/
28. TrueScreen platform: https://truescreen.io/platform/