Fact · Voice privacy and security
84keyboard apps
In a 2015 peer-reviewed study, 84 of 139 keyboard apps on Google Play could be misused as keyloggers.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“the majority of existing keyboard applications (84 out of 139) could be potentially misused as malicious keyloggers”
Keyboard or keylogger? A security analysis of third-party keyboard apps, Junsung Cho et al., 2015 13th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), IEEE, 2015, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1109/PST.2015.7232970)- What it measures
- The authors analyzed the security behaviors of the apps, which measures capability, not whether the apps send data.
- What it does not show
- Measures what the apps could do in 2015. It is not a measure of what they actually transmit.