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WPS Office vs Docs

Privacy compared: the newest public version of each, scored by the same six rules. Docs scores 84 and WPS Office 47, so Docs is 37 points ahead.

47of 100
WPS Officecn.wps.moffice_eng

version 26.9.1

84of 100
Docscom.google.android.apps.docs.editors.docs

version 1.26.401.05.90 ahead by 37

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.

The six axes

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

Security Docs +30
WPS Office 70 1 security problem found.
Docs 100 No security problem found.
Tracking Docs +99
WPS Office 1 14 tracking tools found. It is 33 points below the bottom of the scale, so the total loses 5.5 more.
Docs 100 No tracking tools found; that does not prove there are none.
Build hygiene level
WPS Office 62 The app passes 8 of 13 checks of how well it was built.
Docs 62 The app passes 8 of 13 checks of how well it was built.
Packaging WPS Office +2
WPS Office 100 Unpacked, the base APK is 279 MB; 286 KB of it is unused files.
Docs 98 Unpacked, the base APK is 68 MB; 1.3 MB of it is unused files.
Access Docs +48
WPS Office 20 Asks for 7 of 11 kinds of permission; 2 kinds of special access.
Docs 68 Asks for 4 of 11 kinds of permission; no special access.
Background Docs +10
WPS Office 64 Runs 2 kinds of background service and starts by itself after a restart.
Docs 74 Runs 1 kind of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

TrackersWPS Office 14 · Docs 0

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 Docs
none

Dangerous permissionsWPS Office 6 · Docs 3

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
ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONCAMERAREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
In both
RECORD_AUDIOWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Only in Docs
READ_CONTACTS

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, Docs.