It's a good tool, certainly much better than the play store's almost hidden "View permissions" link.<p>Perhaps it can be enhanced to take into account API level differences too, since that sometimes has a significant impact on what the app is allowed to do.<p>For example, READ_CONTACTS allows an application to read the user's contacts data, but in IceCreamSandwich and lower, it also allows the app to read call logs, which is an altogether different set of data in the eyes of an end user.<p>Combine that with INTERNET permission, and basically you have an app which can send all your call logs to whomever it wants.
For what it's worth: I've forever been on the lookout of an app that sits in the background and informs users of bad apps -- and suggest cleaner alternatives.<p>I'm tired of watching my non-technical family's phones slow down to a sludge because of these apps. Give them a rotten tomatoes like score collected from users, and pretty soon users will stop installing the low scored, ad filled, battery hogging apps.
Cool site, but it doesn't seem to work. It doesn't display the same list that the app displays. Reading the list the app displays looks scary. Reading the list on the site makes it sem ok