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Moovit vs Waze

Privacy compared: the newest public version of each, scored by the same six rules. Waze scores 68 and Moovit 59, so Waze is 9 points ahead.

59of 100
Moovitcom.tranzmate

version 5.201.1.1809

68of 100
Wazecom.waze

version 5.25.0.1 ahead by 9

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
Moovit 100 No security problem found.
Waze 100 No security problem found.
Tracking Waze +60
Moovit 1 12 tracking tools found. It is 21 points below the bottom of the scale, so the total loses 3.5 more.
Waze 61 2 tracking tools found.
Build hygiene Moovit +14
Moovit 71 The app passes 10 of 14 checks of how well it was built.
Waze 57 The app passes 8 of 14 checks of how well it was built.
Packaging level
Moovit 99 Unpacked, the base APK is 76 MB; 829 KB of it is unused files.
Waze 99 Unpacked, the base APK is 99 MB; 636 KB of it is unused files.
Access Moovit +10
Moovit 28 Asks for 6 of 11 kinds of permission; 1 kind of special access.
Waze 18 Asks for 8 of 11 kinds of permission; 1 kind of special access.
Background level
Moovit 74 Runs 1 kind of background service and starts by itself after a restart.
Waze 74 Runs 1 kind of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

TrackersMoovit 12 · Waze 2

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

Only in Moovit
AppsFlyerButtonCarto (formerly Nutiteq)Facebook AdsFacebook SDKFacebook ShareFirebase AnalyticsFyberIAB Open MeasurementVungle / Liftoff
In both
Firebase PerformanceGoogle AdMob
Only in Waze
none

Dangerous permissionsMoovit 6 · Waze 8

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 Moovit
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGEWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
In both
ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATIONACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONCAMERA
Only in Waze
READ_CALENDARREAD_CONTACTSREAD_PHONE_STATERECORD_AUDIO

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: Moovit, Waze.