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Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 3,264 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.

Microsoft Authenticator

Microsoft Corporation

Protects your online identity

4.7 ★3,522,804 ratings
100M+Downloads
4+Age rating
237 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

Use Microsoft Authenticator for easy, secure sign-ins for all your online accounts using multi-factor authentication, passwordless, or password autofill. You also have additional account management options for your Microsoft personal, work or school accounts.

Getting started with multi-factor authentication

Multi factor authentication (MFA)provides a second layer of security. When enabled, during login after entering your password, you’ll be asked for an additional way to prove it’s really you. Either approve the notification sent to the Microsoft Authenticator, or enter the one-time password (OTP) generated by the app. The OTP codes have a 30 second timer counting down. This timer is so you never have to use the same time-based one-time password (TOTP) twice and you don’t have to remember the number.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

8 screenshots
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Independent evidence report

The evidence behind this assessment

This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.

Automated assessment complete

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

App Store

This analysis describes version 6.8.56 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 6.8.56, updated 2026-09-29.

Google Play

This analysis describes version 6.2609.6214 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 6.2609.6214, updated 2026-09-21.

What we measured

Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.

How these are measured

Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the package we scanned

From the package we downloaded and read — version 6.2609.6214, scanned 2026-09-29.

Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.

Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured

What the analysis found

App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.

Methodology

The catch list 1

Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.

Privacy disclosure does not match the app
Measuredfrom the store privacy disclosureview evidence
Tracking or advertising SDKs are present in the package that the store's own privacy disclosure does not account for.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) names no tracking or advertising use, but the package ships 2 advertising/tracking SDKs: Microsoft App Center, Firebase Analytics

Positive evidence 1

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

No advertising SDKs
Measuredfrom SDKs in the app packageartefact fa8f48e92871…
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 3 SDKs detected in the package

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 6.8.56.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Business modelFree

Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.