Privacy protection apps: Privacy Labels Compared
Privacy tools — VPNs, blockers and scanners — can see a lot of your traffic. A privacy app that collects identifiers or usage data deserves a careful read. Checked November 2026.
- Declare tracking
- 48%
- Linked, no tracking
- 14%
- Collect nothing
- 28%
- No label details
- 1
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| Developer | Tracking | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdGuard VPN | Adguard Software Limited | Linked | None | 1 |
| AdLock | Hankuper s.r.o. | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Armor VPN | SpellMe Ltd | Tracks you | Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics | 4 |
| Best VPN Proxy AppVPN | ARCNICE PTE. LTD. | Linked | None | 4 |
| Betternet VPN | Betternet LLC | Tracks you | Identifiers | 7 |
| Changefly Privacy & Protection | Changefly Inc. | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Cryptomator | Skymatic GmbH | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Digilink-Protect your privacy | RIPWALL, LLC | Tracks you | Identifiers, Usage Data | 4 |
| Hacker Antispy | PRIME SOFTWARE | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Hode | 浩 湛 | Tracks you | Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Other Data | 5 |
| Hogo now with Privacy Wars | ConsumerDirect Inc | Tracks you | Purchases, Contact Info, Identifiers | 8 |
| Hola VPN Privacy & Security | Hola VPN Ltd | Tracks you | Identifiers | 3 |
| iVPN | MDC VIET NAM MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED | Not linked | None | 1 |
| Lion VPN | NEXTGEN SECURITY SOFTWARE COMPANY LIMITED | Not linked | None | 3 |
| MaxProtection VPN PRO | Senwo Technology Co., Limited | Tracks you | Identifiers | 1 |
| Mobile Privacy Protection App | Second Phone LLC | Not disclosed | — | — |
| Norton VPN | Gen Digital Inc. | Tracks you | Identifiers | 4 |
| PAN Privacy | PAN AG | Not linked | None | 1 |
| Phone Protection | PENTALOBE LLC. | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| SecuHive | Security app ltd | Tracks you | Identifiers | 3 |
| SecureVPN | SecureVPN.com Inc | Tracks you | Location, Identifiers, Usage Data | 6 |
| ShieldX | Artur Lysenko | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Surfshark VPN | SURFSHARK LTD | Linked | None | 5 |
| Trend Micro ID Protection | Trend Micro, Incorporated | Tracks you | Identifiers | 8 |
| Trust Guardian | VPN TORG, TOV | Tracks you | Identifiers | 2 |
| VPN | APPZLAB LIMITED | Tracks you | Usage Data | 1 |
| VPN Privacy Protection | XIN TIANSHAN, TOO | Tracks you | Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, Other Data | 5 |
| VPN Proxy - OpticalVPN | OpticalVPN, LLC | Linked | None | 3 |
| VPN Proxy & Internet Speed Pro | POL - BUD LTD | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| VPN Sense | DIGITAL HERO LLC | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
Most common data types
- Identifiers59%
- Usage Data55%
- Diagnostics48%
- Contact Info31%
- Location28%
- Purchases21%
- User Content14%
- Other Data10%
How to read this list
Productivity apps tend to collect the work you do in them — documents, notes and files — so User Content is common. The question is whether it syncs to the developer's servers and how it is protected there.
Check whether the app logs traffic or DNS queries and who operates its servers.
Exposure follows the label's own structure: an app that declares any tracking is shown as “Tracks you”, even if it collects little else. Open any app for every data type explained and the iPhone settings that limit it.