Are Setapp apps safe?

Setapp is a highly secured product, proven by world-known audits and certifications. Read more at Setapp Trust Center.

Setapp works with proven and honorable developers who create exceptional quality and value apps. We have 240+ apps in the stack and are steadily adding more. You can find the complete list of Setapp apps at setapp.com/apps.

Our primary goal is to supply you with high-quality software. A massive quantity of apps is not a priority. That’s why if developers want an app to join Setapp, they submit it to our special Review Team. Then, we run a number of tests and check the app against our quality, functionality, safety, and privacy guidelines.

According to Setapp Review Guidelines, our team filters out all apps that contain or assume:

• Paid features and app components;
• Built-in stores and in-app purchases;
• Advertising, promotional, or direct marketing functionality;
• Incorrect diagnostic or other inaccurate device data;
• Improper or wrong information about the app itself;
• References or commentary about a religious, cultural, or ethnic group that are defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to expose the targeted group to harm or violence;
• Pornographic material or user-generated content that is frequently pornographic.

The Setapp team also doesn’t consider apps that

• download other standalone apps;
• keep running processes or run automatically without your consent;
• clearly mimic other well-known apps;
• transmit data about a subscriber without obtaining permission and informing on how and where the data will be used;
• solicit, promote, or encourage criminal or clearly reckless behavior; 
• enable illegal file sharing;
• are designed for use as illegal gambling aids;
• enable anonymous or prank phone calls or SMS/MMS messaging;
• surreptitiously attempt to discover subscriber passwords or other private data;
• send notifications without first obtaining subscriber consent;
• send sensitive personal or confidential information using notifications.

All apps on Setapp are appropriately tested and work as advertised. We do not allow distribution of "demo," "trial," or "test" app versions.

Note: The above rules and standards are just a brief extract from Setapp Review Guidelines. We provide them here just for information purposes. 

So, if the app matches all Setapp guidelines, we approve and add it to Setapp. Moreover, each new version of every app also goes through the review process. In other words, all updates you receive via Setapp are thoroughly verified. As you see, we carefully hand-pick apps before they join Setapp and keep an eye on them when they are already approved. Thus, you can sweep all safety concerns aside.

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