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Tether vs Speedtest

Privacy compared: the newest public version of each, scored by the same six rules. Tether scores 69 and Speedtest 60, so Tether is 9 points ahead.

69of 100
Tethercom.tplink.tether

version 4.16.8 ahead by 9

60of 100
Speedtestorg.zwanoo.android.speedtest

version 7.1.1

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 level
Tether 70 1 security problem found.
Speedtest 70 1 security problem found.
Tracking Tether +60
Tether 61 2 tracking tools found.
Speedtest 1 11 tracking tools found. It is 8 points below the bottom of the scale, so the total loses 1.3 more.
Build hygiene Speedtest +9
Tether 64 The app passes 9 of 14 checks of how well it was built.
Speedtest 73 The app passes 11 of 15 checks of how well it was built.
Packaging Speedtest +1
Tether 99 Unpacked, the base APK is 298 MB; 4.0 MB of it is unused files.
Speedtest 100 The phone can use everything in the app.
Access Speedtest +16
Tether 34 Asks for 6 of 11 kinds of permission; 1 kind of special access.
Speedtest 50 Asks for 4 of 11 kinds of permission; no special access.
Background Tether +10
Tether 84 Runs 1 kind of background service.
Speedtest 74 Runs 1 kind of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

TrackersTether 2 · Speedtest 11

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

Only in Tether
none
In both
Firebase AnalyticsGoogle AdMob
Only in Speedtest
Amazon AdvertisementAmazon Mobile Analytics (Amplify)ComScoreFirebase PerformanceGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerHuawei Mobile Services (HMS) CoreIAB Open MeasurementPrebid Mobile

Dangerous permissionsTether 6 · Speedtest 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 Tether
CAMERARECORD_AUDIO
In both
ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Only in Speedtest
ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATIONREAD_PHONE_STATE

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: Tether, Speedtest.