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Meet vs Contacts

Privacy compared: the newest public version of each, scored by the same six rules. Contacts scores 84 and Meet 67, so Contacts is 17 points ahead.

67of 100
Meetcom.google.android.apps.tachyon

version 380.0.998174106.duo.android_20261005.01_p3

84of 100
Contactscom.google.android.contacts

version 4.88.28.981523105 ahead by 17

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 Contacts +30
Meet 70 1 security problem found.
Contacts 100 No security problem found.
Tracking level
Meet 100 No tracking tools found; that does not prove there are none.
Contacts 100 No tracking tools found; that does not prove there are none.
Build hygiene Contacts +2
Meet 77 The app passes 10 of 13 checks of how well it was built.
Contacts 79 The app passes 11 of 14 checks of how well it was built.
Packaging Contacts +1
Meet 99 Unpacked, the base APK is 48 MB; 250 KB of it is unused files.
Contacts 100 The phone can use everything in the app.
Access Contacts +10
Meet 40 Asks for 6 of 11 kinds of permission; no special access.
Contacts 50 Asks for 4 of 11 kinds of permission; no special access.
Background Contacts +56
Meet 18 Runs 6 kinds of background service and starts by itself after a restart.
Contacts 74 Runs 1 kind of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

TrackersMeet 0 · Contacts 0

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

Only in Meet
none
In both
none
Only in Contacts
none

Dangerous permissionsMeet 6 · Contacts 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 Meet
CAMERARECORD_AUDIOWRITE_CALL_LOG
In both
READ_CONTACTSREAD_PHONE_STATEWRITE_CONTACTS
Only in Contacts
READ_CALL_LOGREAD_PHONE_NUMBERSREAD_SMS

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: Meet, Contacts.