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<h2>Research Project</h2>
<div class="squeeze">
<p>
The AppCheck research project is an effort to shine light on the background activity of iOS apps.
Making the otherwise hidden network connections visible to everyone.
The AppCheck research project is an effort to shine a light on the background activity of iOS apps, making the otherwise hidden network connections visible to everyone.
The goal is to make privacy more accessible to the general public.
And thus make incentives for app developers to respect the users privacy.
And thus create incentives for app developers to respect users' privacy.
</p>
<p>
We want to offer users, activists, data protection authorities, and data protection officers an easily accessible and flexible tool to assess the privacy measures of iOS applications.
We want to offer users, activists, data protection authorities, and data protection officers an easily accessible and flexible tool to assess the privacy measures of iOS applications.
</p>
<span>AppCheck allows users to:</span>
<ul>
<li>get a visiual overview over an apps communication signature</li>
<li>get a visual overview of an apps communication signature</li>
<li>assess how an app ranks within its peer group or category</li>
<li>influence the ranking according to their own preferences</li>
<li>influence the ranking according to their preferences</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="note">
<h4>Current Notice:</h4>
<p>
We have an ongoing <b>research project</b>. Your help is highly appreciated.
<br>
For more infos follow <a href="/help/">this link</a>.
</p>
</div>
<h2>Results</h2>
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<p>
This website is the front-end for the evaluated data.
This website is the front-end of the evaluated data.
All app recordings are collected and displayed here.
In a visual way it shows you how many known trackers an app uses.
How apps compare to each other, and if there are privacy friendly alternatives.
Visually, it shows you how many known trackers an app uses.
How apps compare to each other, and if there are privacy-friendly alternatives.
</p>
<p>
You can go to <a href="/index/apps/">all apps</a> directly.
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<h3>How does it work?</h3>
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AppCheck creates a local VPN proxy to intercept all network connections.
For each connection AppCheck looks into the DNS headers only, namely the domain names.
For each connection, AppCheck looks into the DNS headers only, namely the domain names.
These domain names are logged in the background while the VPN is running.
AppCheck does not need to be active all the time.
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<h3>What about privacy?</h3>
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Your data belongs to you.
Therefore, monitoring and analysis takes place on your device only.
Therefore, monitoring takes place on your device only.
AppCheck learns only the destination addresses, not the actual data that is exchanged.
The app does not share any data with us or any other third-party – unless you choose to.
</p>
<h3>How can I contribute?</h3>
<p class="squeeze">
AppCheck allows you to record app specific activity.
You can share these recordings with us and the community.
This can help you and others avoid phony applications; even before you install an app.
AppCheck allows you to record app-specific activity.
You can share these recordings with the community; it can help you and others avoid phony applications, even before you install an app.
</p>
<a id="get-appcheck" class="no-ul" href="https://testflight.apple.com/join/9jjaFeHO" target="_blank">
<img class="app-icon" src="/static/appcheck.svg" alt="app-icon" width="30" height="30">
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<h2>Limitations</h2>
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<p>
AppCheck can not detect if a network activity belongs to one app or another.
This is due to technical limitations of the VPN network extension.
Therefore these results can't be taken 100&thinsp;% certain.
These <b>wrong attributions</b> can be minimized by running only a single application at a time (during recording).
Further, results are filtered prior to publication.
Requests that are contained only in a small subset of recordings are ignored.
Due to the network extension's technical limitations, AppCheck can not detect if a network activity belongs to one app or another.
It may result in wrong attributions.
The attributions can be minimized by running only a single application during recording and filter results before contributing.
The evaluation website will ignore requests that appear only in a small subset of recordings.
</p>
<p>
This project is limited to <b>iOS applications</b>.