killerloanapps · live: India · Sri Lanka · historical: India · Nigeria · deleted · methodology
Branch Instant Personal Loan [India] lending
13 low (partial) · installs 50,000,000+ · rating 4.6005282 (3612258) · updated 1788839178000
Corpus: India live · harvested 2026-09-21
Risk signals, not verdicts. Scores flag indicators of abusive-lending behaviour from public app-store data. A high score is not proof of illegality; a low score is not a safety certificate. See methodology.
Score breakdown (rubric 0.2)
| Indicator family | Weight | Score |
|---|---|---|
| I1 Brand & ASO abuse | w=15 | 0/100 |
| I2 I2 | w=? | 0/100 |
| I3 I3 | w=? | 15/100 |
| I4 I4 | w=? | 0/100 |
| I5 I5 | w=? | |
| I6 Permission excess | w=15 | 54/100 |
| I7 I7 | w=? |
Triggered signals
- none
Paperwork
| Developer | Branch International Financial Services Limited |
| Legal entity | Branch International, Inc. |
| Legal email | eng-amp@branch.co |
| Legal address | 115 Sansome St Ste 400, San Francisco, CA 94104-3638, United States |
| Legal phone | +1 202-701-7155 |
| Developer email | support@branch.co |
| Website | https://www.branch.co |
| Privacy policy | https://branch.co/pp |
| Released | Mar 19, 2015 |
| Version | VARY |
| Play listing | — |
Permissions (16 total, 7 dangerous)
- Device & app history: add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
- Device & app history: approximate location (network-based)
- Device & app history: read calendar events plus confidential information
- Device & app history: read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
- Other: change network connectivity
- Other: full network access
- Other: view network connections
Full permission list in the dataset repo. Permissions captured at harvest time; apps update silently.