Secure messengers: Privacy Labels Compared
Messengers see who you talk to as well as what you say. Even with end-to-end encrypted content, contact lists and metadata can be collected and linked to you. Checked November 2026.
- Declare tracking
- 20%
- Linked, no tracking
- 40%
- Collect nothing
- 27%
- No label details
- 0
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| Developer | Tracking | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOL Mail | AOL Media LLC | Tracks you | Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data | 7 |
| Atomic Mail | AtomicMail Systems OU | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| AWS Wickr | Wickr, LLC | Not linked | None | 4 |
| BUNKR Secure Messaging & Vault | BUNKR LIFE LLC | Linked | None | 1 |
| Cloaked | Cloaked, Inc. | Linked | None | 4 |
| DaVita Secure Messaging | DaVita, Inc. | Linked | None | 1 |
| Email Edison Mail | Edison Software Inc. | Linked | None | 5 |
| KaChat | Cyber Ventures LLC | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| MySudo | Anonyome Labs, Inc | Linked | None | 5 |
| Output Messenger | srimax software system | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Ping Chat | Drovia OU | Tracks you | Identifiers | 3 |
| PRIVUS SecurLine Messenger | Bit Armor AG | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| SalaX Secure Messaging | SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY, INC. | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Verifyle | Verifyle, Inc. | Linked | None | 6 |
| Yandex Mail | DIRECT CURSUS COMPUTER SYSTEMS TRADING LLC | Tracks you | Identifiers | 5 |
Most common data types
- Contact Info53%
- Identifiers53%
- Usage Data53%
- Diagnostics47%
- User Content33%
- Purchases20%
- Contacts13%
- Location7%
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 contact upload is optional, whether backups are encrypted too, and whether disappearing messages exist.
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.