WPS Office vs Claude

Privacy compared: the newest public version of each, scored by the same six rules. Claude scores 80 and WPS Office 47, so Claude is 33 points ahead.

47of 100

WPS Officecn.wps.moffice_eng

version 26.9.1

80of 100

Claudecom.anthropic.claude

version 1.261019.20 ahead by 33

Who is ahead on what

The longer bar is the better one on every axis; a score is the mean of its six axes. The arithmetic behind each is on the app's own card.

Axes: Claude leads on 4 axes, WPS Office on none; 2 axes are level.
Trackers: WPS Office carries 14 trackers, Claude 2 trackers; fewer is better.
Dangerous permissions: WPS Office may ask for 6 permissions, Claude for 6 permissions.

The six axes

Each axis is one short rule applied to both apps, with the one thing that decided its number underneath.

Security Claude +30

WPS Office 70 1 security problem found.

Claude 100 No security problem found.

Tracking Claude +78

WPS Office 1 14 tracking tools found. It is 33 points below the bottom of the scale, so the total loses 5.5 more.

Claude 79 2 tracking tools found.

Build hygiene Claude +24

WPS Office 62 The app passes 8 of 13 checks of how well it was built.

Claude 86 The app passes 12 of 14 checks of how well it was built.

Packaging level

WPS Office 100 Unpacked, the base APK is 279 MB; 286 KB of it is unused files.

Claude 100 Unpacked, the base APK is 46 MB; 108 KB of it is unused files.

Access Claude +28

WPS Office 20 Asks for 7 of 11 kinds of permission; 2 kinds of special access.

Claude 48 Asks for 5 of 11 kinds of permission; no special access.

Background level

WPS Office 64 Runs 2 kinds of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

Claude 64 Runs 2 kinds of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

TrackersWPS Office 14 · Claude 2

The advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs recognised in each app. What only one of them carries is what sets it apart.

Only in WPS Office

AppLovin MAXFacebook AdsFacebook SDKFacebook ShareFirebase AnalyticsGoogle AdMobGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerIAB Open MeasurementironSourceOpenTelemetry (OpenCensus, OpenTracing)PangleTwitter MoPubUnity Ads

In both

none

Only in Claude

Datadog RUMSegment

Dangerous permissionsWPS Office 6 · Claude 6

The permissions Android asks the user about at run time: the camera, the microphone, the location, the contacts and the like. An app may need one for what it does; asking is not the same as using.

Only in WPS Office

CAMERAREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

In both

ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONRECORD_AUDIOWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Only in Claude

READ_CALENDARWRITE_CALENDAR

Where this comes from

Both are the apps' public cards: what anyone may know of an app, from its newest public version - one Google Play installed, and out in the world. Each card has the score's lines and the earlier versions: WPS Office, Claude.