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Best Privacy Protection Apps for iPhone (2026)
Avast One: Security & Privacy is the top-ranked of 40 privacy protection apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 99,885 ratings.
- 1
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 99,885 ratings · score 95 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 665,527 ratings · score 94 - 3
Free · ★ 4.8 · 41,877 ratings · score 94 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 2,411,870 ratings · score 93 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 120,801 ratings · score 92
What belongs in this list
Keep my personal information and online activity from being tracked, collected or exposed.
Not here: private browsing alone; a VPN with no tracker or data-exposure controls alone; a password manager alone; a lock screen or app lock alone; a general security or antivirus scan alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 99,885 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 665,527 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 3Free · ★ 4.8 · 41,877 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 2,411,870 ratings · score 93 · best in class
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 120,801 ratings · score 92 · best in class
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 709,464 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 27,398 ratings · score 91 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 46,358 ratings · score 91 · best in class - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 8,526 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 238,303 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 9,811 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 19,948 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 13
Free · ★ 4.6 · 218,511 ratings · score 84 · excellent - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 216,192 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 5,838 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 16
Free · ★ 4.8 · 58,200 ratings · score 80 · excellent - 17
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 7,162 ratings · score 80 · good - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 15,667 ratings · score 80 · good - 19
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 121,276 ratings · score 80 · good - 20
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 5,706 ratings · score 80 · good - 21
$9.99 · ★ 4.4 · 3,133 ratings · score 80 · good - 22
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 3,988 ratings · score 74 · good - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 623,679 ratings · score 73 · good · provisional - 24
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 317,438 ratings · score 72 · good · provisional - 25
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 149,915 ratings · score 72 · good · provisional - 26
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 121,792 ratings · score 71 · good · provisional - 27
Free + IAP · ★ 1.0 · 1 ratings · score 71 · good · provisional - 28
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 71,527 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 29
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 13,638 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 30
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 24,596 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional - 31
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 33,212 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 32
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 22,547 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 33
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 16,086 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 34
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 19,540 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 35
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 15,583 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 36
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 2,595 ratings · score 69 · situational - 37
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 7,723 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 38
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,748 ratings · score 68 · weak · provisional - 39
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,187 ratings · score 68 · weak · provisional - 40
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,140 ratings · score 67 · weak
Beyond the top 40
19 more, not ranked yet
- VPN Secure Proxy: UltraVPN™
- RedApp Browser
- Symlex VPN: Fast & Secure VPN
- Darkweb Browser for TOR sites
- Web Guard: Protection, Privacy
- TOR Browser: Phantom
- McAfee Security for Metro
- VPN Clean - Secure Fast Proxy
- Identity Guard: ID Protection
- Online Shield - Fast VPN Proxy
- Temp Mail - Temporary Email
- PrivadoVPN Fast VPN and Proxy
- Qwant Private Search
- HS VPN Lite: Private VPN Proxy
- Privacy Guard: Ad Blocker
- VPN Ai + Private Browser
- Solamber VPN Security Proxy
- AdBlock
- KORP VPN
New in the last 30 days
- Cloaked: Protect your privacy (S)
- Guardio - Mobile Security (S)
- PrivacyHawk (A)
- Lockdown Privacy: AdBlock VPN (A)
- AdGuard Ad Blocker for Safari (A)
- Privacy.com: Virtual Cards (B)
- MySudo - Identity Protection (B)
- Permission Slip by DeleteMe (B)
- AdGuard Pro: Safari Ad Blocker (B)
- Security Master - Data Privacy (B)
- Privacy Guard: Privacy Checkup (B)
- VyprVPN: VPN Secure & Private (C)
- VPN US using Free VPN .org™ (C)
- Mena VPN - UAE, Saudi, Oman (C)
- UFO VPN: Ultra Fast Secure VPN (C)
- TOR Browser: VPN+Onion Browser (C)
- Clario: Privacy & Security (C)
- Ghost - Second Phone Number (C)
- Tuta Mail: Secure Email (D)
- ZoogVPN・Private & Secure Proxy (D)
- MaxProtection VPN PRO (D)
Questions people ask
- What is the best privacy protection app for iPhone?
- Avast One: Security & Privacy, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.7 by 99,885 people.
- Which privacy protection apps are free?
- 39 of 40 are free to download: Avast One: Security & Privacy (S), Brave Browser & Search Engine (S), Phone Guardian Safe Mobile VPN (S), DuckDuckGo, optional Duck.ai (S) and more. 29 of them sell in-app purchases. 3 report no in-app purchases.
- Which privacy protection app has the best App Store rating?
- Guardio - Mobile Security at 4.9 from 46,358 ratings.
- How many privacy protection apps reach S or A tier?
- 16 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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