Appworthy

Session - Private Messenger

Privacy you can trust

The Loki Project
Download on theApp Store
App Store rating4.4★5.3K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age17+Store age rating
Size96 MBiPhone download
CategorySocial
DeveloperThe Loki Project

What we found

Full report

Too little checked to say Only 201 reviews read, too few to say.

Money

  • Free to download.

From our automated analysis, 17 Oct 2026.

This analysis describes version 2.15.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-17 .

The store currently lists version 2.15.5, updated 2026-10-10.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Session is a new breed of private messenger, built on a unique network of user-operated servers spread all over the world. With no central servers, Session can’t leak or sell your data. And with Session’s private routing protocols, your messages are completely safe. No trackers, no leaks — send messages, not metadata.

• Fully private account creation: No phone number or email needed to create an Account ID

• Decentralized server network: No data breaches, no central point of failure

• No metadata logging: Session doesn't store, track, or log your messaging metadata

• IP address protection: Device IP addresses are never exposed to the person you're talking to or the servers holding your data

• Closed groups: Private, end-to-end encrypted group chats for up to 100 people…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

No findings published
This assessment published no findings. That is a statement about what the evidence we had could show, not a clearance of the app.

What reviewers report

201 reviews read · 0 review-based observations

No review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
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
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 17 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 2.15.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-17 .

The store currently lists version 2.15.5, updated 2026-10-10.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 2.15.5 · 2026-10-10
• Added a placeholder for messages sent from a newer version of Session, which can be viewed after updating • Voice messages can now be up to 5 minutes long • Improved network reliability and message delivery, particularly on mobile networks • Fixed several Push Notification reliability issues, including some group notifications being dropped • Fixed an issue where the app could return to onboarding if its data couldn't be read during launch • Fixed an issue where deleting a group wasn't fully applied on your other devices • Fixed some issues with disappearing messages • Fixed several crashes, including one which could occur when sending a message • Fixed a number of minor UI issues

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
session-apple-1470168868
Assessment date
17 Oct 2026
Sources used
2 independent signals: user reviews and the store listing
Reviews read
201
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-17 from 201 user reviews and the store listing. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-17 Version analyzed: 2.15.52 independent signals201 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews and the store listing. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest and the store privacy disclosure.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.38 ★ · 5,314 ratings
Version
2.15.5
Updated
10 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
17+
Size
96 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
The Loki Project
Category
Social
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Two independent signals are read — user reviews and the store listing — 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.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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