# Android System Key Verifier

> More secure end-to-end encrypted communications with contact key verification

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.google.android.contactkeys](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.google.android.contactkeys)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.google.android.contactkeys`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Google LLC
- **Category:** TOOLS
- **Downloads:** 3,361,990,612
- **Rating:** 3.95 / 5 (175,019 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.403.946752603
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-21
- **First published:** 2025-01-28
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 10 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.contactkeys)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://policies.google.com/privacy](https://policies.google.com/privacy)

## Description

The **Android System Key Verifier** is a vital system service enhancing the security of end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging apps on Android. It offers a unified framework for public key verification, enabling developers to securely store and manage encryption keys.

Users benefit by confirming that their messaging apps utilize correct public keys, ensuring communications are genuinely with intended contacts. This empowers safer, more trustworthy encrypted conversations across various apps, strengthening overall messaging privacy.

## Rankings

- #54 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES`
- `com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES`

## Review summary

Users consistently report that the Android System Key Verifier works reliably with no notable issues. The feedback is highly positive, using words such as nice, good, excellent, and one of the best. A key point is the perceived security benefit, with references to guarding and protection. Overall, reviews indicate strong satisfaction and quality, with few if any drawbacks mentioned. A few unrelated lines reference clipboard behavior, but the core sentiment centers on reliability and high quality.

### Pros

- Reliability: the app works and has had no problems reported so far
- Strong positive sentiment: reviews use terms like nice, good, excellent, and one of the best
- Security/protection perception: reviewers note it guards up and protects the user
- Overall quality and satisfaction: described as a great app with high overall quality

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.google.android.contactkeys)