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Moovit vs Bolt

Privacy compared: the newest public version of each, scored by the same six rules. Moovit scores 59 and Bolt 57, so Moovit is 2 points ahead.

59of 100
Moovitcom.tranzmate

version 5.201.1.1809 ahead by 2

57of 100
Boltee.mtakso.client

version CA.228.0

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.
Bolt 100 No security problem found.
Tracking Bolt +10
Moovit 1 12 tracking tools found. It is 21 points below the bottom of the scale, so the total loses 3.5 more.
Bolt 11 9 tracking tools found.
Build hygiene Moovit +28
Moovit 71 The app passes 10 of 14 checks of how well it was built.
Bolt 43 The app passes 6 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.
Bolt 99 Unpacked, the base APK is 141 MB; 935 KB of it is unused files.
Access Bolt +6
Moovit 28 Asks for 6 of 11 kinds of permission; 1 kind of special access.
Bolt 34 Asks for 6 of 11 kinds of permission; 1 kind of special access.
Background Moovit +20
Moovit 74 Runs 1 kind of background service and starts by itself after a restart.
Bolt 54 Runs 3 kinds of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

TrackersMoovit 12 · Bolt 9

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 AdsFyberIAB Open MeasurementVungle / Liftoff
In both
Facebook SDKFacebook ShareFirebase AnalyticsFirebase PerformanceGoogle AdMob
Only in Bolt
Facebook FlipperMixPanelSingularTune

Dangerous permissionsMoovit 6 · Bolt 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 Moovit
ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATIONREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
In both
ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONCAMERA
Only in Bolt
READ_CALENDARRECORD_AUDIOWRITE_CALENDAR

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, Bolt.