LG ThinQ vs Xiaomi Home

Privacy compared: the newest public version of each, scored by the same six rules. Xiaomi Home scores 56 and LG ThinQ 46, so Xiaomi Home is 10 points ahead.

46of 100

LG ThinQcom.lgeha.nuts

version 5.2.12500

56of 100

Xiaomi Homecom.xiaomi.smarthome

version 11.8.704 ahead by 10

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: Xiaomi Home leads on 3 axes, LG ThinQ on 2 axes; 1 axis is level.
Trackers: LG ThinQ carries 12 trackers, Xiaomi Home 7 trackers; fewer is better.
Dangerous permissions: LG ThinQ may ask for 9 permissions, Xiaomi Home for 7 permissions.

The six axes

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

Security level

LG ThinQ 70 1 security problem found.

Xiaomi Home 70 1 security problem found.

Tracking Xiaomi Home +19

LG ThinQ 1 12 tracking tools found. It is 13 points below the bottom of the scale, so the total loses 2.2 more.

Xiaomi Home 20 7 tracking tools found.

Build hygiene LG ThinQ +17

LG ThinQ 79 The app passes 11 of 14 checks of how well it was built.

Xiaomi Home 62 The app passes 8 of 13 checks of how well it was built.

Packaging Xiaomi Home +1

LG ThinQ 99 Unpacked, the base APK is 262 MB; 2.3 MB of it is unused files.

Xiaomi Home 100 Unpacked, the base APK is 191 MB; 319 KB of it is unused files.

Access LG ThinQ +2

LG ThinQ 20 Asks for 7 of 11 kinds of permission; no special access.

Xiaomi Home 18 Asks for 8 of 11 kinds of permission; 1 kind of special access.

Background Xiaomi Home +50

LG ThinQ 18 Runs 5 kinds of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

Xiaomi Home 68 Runs 2 kinds of background service.

TrackersLG ThinQ 12 · Xiaomi Home 7

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

Only in LG ThinQ

AltBeaconAppsFlyerDynatraceFirebase PerformanceGoogle Tag ManagerMixPanelmParticleSalesforce Marketing Cloud

In both

Facebook SDKFacebook ShareFirebase AnalyticsGoogle AdMob

Only in Xiaomi Home

Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) CorePangleTencent Stats

Dangerous permissionsLG ThinQ 9 · Xiaomi Home 7

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 LG ThinQ

ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATIONREAD_PHONE_NUMBERS

In both

ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONCAMERAREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEREAD_PHONE_STATERECORD_AUDIOWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Only in Xiaomi Home

none

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: LG ThinQ, Xiaomi Home.