WPS Office vs Sheets

Privacy compared: the newest public version of each, scored by the same six rules. Sheets scores 82 and WPS Office 47, so Sheets is 35 points ahead.

47of 100

WPS Officecn.wps.moffice_eng

version 26.9.1

82of 100

Sheetscom.google.android.apps.docs.editors.sheets

version 1.26.401.02.90 ahead by 35

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: Sheets leads on 4 axes, WPS Office on none; 2 axes are level.
Trackers: WPS Office carries 14 trackers, Sheets 1 tracker; fewer is better.
Dangerous permissions: WPS Office may ask for 6 permissions, Sheets for 3 permissions.

The six axes

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

Security Sheets +30

WPS Office 70 1 security problem found.

Sheets 100 No security problem found.

Tracking Sheets +88

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

Sheets 89 1 tracking tool found.

Build hygiene level

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

Sheets 62 The app passes 8 of 13 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.

Sheets 100 The phone can use everything in the app.

Access Sheets +48

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

Sheets 68 Asks for 4 of 11 kinds of permission; no special access.

Background Sheets +10

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

Sheets 74 Runs 1 kind of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

TrackersWPS Office 14 · Sheets 1

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 MeasurementironSourcePangleTwitter MoPubUnity Ads

In both

OpenTelemetry (OpenCensus, OpenTracing)

Only in Sheets

none

Dangerous permissionsWPS Office 6 · Sheets 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 Sheets

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, Sheets.