Protect your personal information with Privacy display – Hide Screen app that…
Handy CandySerious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 128 reviews and the Android app’s code.
From our automated analysis, 24 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.1.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 1.1.4, updated 2026-08-13.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Protect your personal information with Privacy display – Hide Screen app that values your phone privacy. Whether you're checking messages, browsing social media app, using banking apps or reading confidential documents in public our screen guard hide screen app helps you keep your information safe from prying eyes.
Want to hide screen content quickly? Privacy screen guard display app allows you to instantly hide screen with customizable overlays. Whether you're opening private conversations, confidential files or personal photos our all in one app will hide all screen content in seconds. Enjoy customization options of hide screen app that works exactly the way you want.
Privacy display - screen guard has advance feature that adds extra layer of screen privacy make it difficult for people to view your screen.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 5 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network, Mintegral, Pangle (ByteDance) and 1 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:668a7214d050d00286b959d851b6ceee4461efe07bb0ec7a64338b8094f554c3Aggressive ad load: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 13 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app's own text says: "Unlock Premium to protect all your private apps. The free version allows Privacy Layer on one app only. Upgrade now to apply Privacy Layer to unlimited apps and enjoy complete privacy without limits."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:668a7214d050d00286b959d851b6ceee4461efe07bb0ec7a64338b8094f554c3The app's own text says: "Enable to get informed and can take prompt actions."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:668a7214d050d00286b959d851b6ceee4461efe07bb0ec7a64338b8094f554c3The app's own text says: "Playing this content will use %.2f MB of data"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:668a7214d050d00286b959d851b6ceee4461efe07bb0ec7a64338b8094f554c3128 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
don't install this app, it has to many adds and it doesn't even work, I can't even touch my screen when I'm on home (the main screen when you open) so don't open, this is fake and a scam
don't install this app. too many ads with no privacy display option. faul cudar bal
it is very bad even if you put it on you can still see the screen and there 𝕚𝕤 soo many ads. NOT 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕕
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.1.4, scanned 24 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 1.1.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 1.1.4, updated 2026-08-13.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
screen-guard-google-com-hc-screnguard-protectivescreen-privacydisplayAssessed 2026-10-24 from 128 user reviews and the app's package.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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