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← Home<br>Trackers and permissions across 308 open-source Android apps.<br>For every app in the registry whose public APK we've downloaded and unpacked, we check its code for the signatures of known tracker SDKs and read its declared permissions from the manifest — the same check described in full on the methodology page. This page sums those per-app results across the whole catalog: 308 binaries opened, out of 311 apps in the registry.<br>What a zero means here. A binary we haven't opened yet isn't counted as clean — it's excluded. Every app below the fold has been opened, and "no known tracker" is a result the same way "one known tracker" is, not an absence of data.<br>binaries analyzed308<br>permissions requested, avg.10.5<br>carry a known tracker18 of 308<br>carry none290

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Trackers found, by SDK<br>Every third-party tracking SDK whose signature matched, and how many of the 308 analyzed binaries carry it.SDKAppsWhat it doesFound inacra9Collects crash reports.Amaze File Manager, Audile, Flux - Movies, Shows & Anime local player, and 6 more appssentry7Collects crash reports: when the app breaks, it sends the error trace to the developer's servers.Firefox Klar: No Fuss Browser, FitBuddy, Infomaniak kDrive, and 4 more appsgoogle-firebase-analytics3Measures how the app is used and sends those metrics to Google.Signal Private Messenger, Tor Browser for Android, and Tor Browser for Android (Alpha)matomo1Usage analytics. Unlike almost all the others, it can be self-hosted: the data doesn't necessarily leave for a third party.Infomaniak kDrive<br>Most requested sensitive permissions<br>Permissions that grant access to personal data or device capabilities, ranked by how many of the 308 analyzed apps declare them. Technical permissions that don't tell one app apart from another (INTERNET, VIBRATE…) aren't listed one by one.PermissionAppsShareread the device's files<br>READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE10333.4 %write to storage<br>WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE8828.6 %the camera<br>CAMERA6521.1 %your precise location (GPS)<br>ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION5517.9 %your approximate location<br>ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION5417.5 %the microphone<br>RECORD_AUDIO3712.0 %your contacts<br>READ_CONTACTS3110.1 %see every app installed<br>QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES299.4 %draw over other apps<br>SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW299.4 %connect to Bluetooth devices<br>BLUETOOTH_CONNECT237.5 %install other apps<br>REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES237.5 %manage all files on the device<br>MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE206.5 %phone status (line, carrier)<br>READ_PHONE_STATE206.5 %scan for nearby Bluetooth devices<br>BLUETOOTH_SCAN175.5 %your photos<br>READ_MEDIA_IMAGES165.2 %<br>The apps that ask for the most<br>Sorted by number of declared permissions.AppPermissionsTrackersOpenVitals1000Signal Private Messenger771Forkgram Classic690Goregram680MA Health440PlainApp: Phone Web Portal440KDE Connect390baresip+370<br>See also: our cross-country pricing report.<br>How to cite this<br>Sourceapptizo — apptizo.comURLhttps://apptizo.com/reports/app-trackers-permissions/Apps analyzed308MethodStatic analysis of the public APK: unpacked and checked against known tracker-SDK signatures and declared manifest permissions. Full methodology →

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