{
  "slug": "spike",
  "category": "email-clients",
  "name": "Spike",
  "description": "Closed-source email app that shows messages as chat conversations and adds team chat, notes and video meetings, available for web, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.",
  "website": "https://www.spikenow.com",
  "license": null,
  "platforms": [
    "web",
    "windows",
    "macos",
    "ios",
    "android"
  ],
  "jurisdiction": {
    "code": "IL",
    "name": "Israel",
    "eyes": null,
    "eu": false,
    "gdpr": false,
    "cloud_act": null
  },
  "pick": false,
  "pick_reason": null,
  "disclosure": null,
  "grade": "F",
  "score": 17,
  "coverage": 100,
  "summary": "Spike scores 17 out of 100 (grade F) on the email clients criteria. It meets 1 of 8 criteria: works with any provider. It partly meets no ads or data sales and independent audit. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, OpenPGP support, connects directly and blocks remote content. It is based in Israel: Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes.",
  "url": "https://privacyratings.com/email-clients/spike/",
  "markdown": "https://privacyratings.com/email-clients/spike/index.md",
  "answers": {
    "open_source": {
      "title": "Open source",
      "weight": 3,
      "answer": "no",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Closed source."
    },
    "no_trackers": {
      "title": "No trackers or telemetry",
      "weight": 3,
      "answer": "no",
      "evidence": "https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.pingapp.app/latest/",
      "note": "Exodus finds AppsFlyer, Appcelerator Analytics and Firebase Analytics in the Android app, and the website loads Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and TikTok trackers."
    },
    "no_ads": {
      "title": "No ads or data sales",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "partial",
      "evidence": "https://www.spikenow.com/privacy-policy/",
      "note": "Funded by paid plans with no ads in the app, but the website shares visitor data with ad networks to promote Spike."
    },
    "independent_audit": {
      "title": "Independent audit",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "partial",
      "evidence": "https://www.spikenow.com/security/",
      "note": "Bishop Fox audited Spike, but no report is published and the audit is more than three years old."
    },
    "transparency_report": {
      "title": "Transparency report",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    },
    "user_notice": {
      "title": "Tells users about requests",
      "weight": 1,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    },
    "tls": {
      "title": "TLS configuration",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    },
    "security_headers": {
      "title": "Security headers",
      "weight": 1,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    },
    "web_standards": {
      "title": "Modern web standards",
      "weight": 1,
      "answer": "n/a",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "Only applies to hosted services with a website to test."
    },
    "openpgp": {
      "title": "OpenPGP support",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "no",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "PGP is not supported."
    },
    "no_cloud_relay": {
      "title": "Connects directly",
      "weight": 3,
      "answer": "no",
      "evidence": "https://www.spikenow.com/privacy-policy/",
      "note": "Spike servers access and store account credentials, emails and contacts to provide the service."
    },
    "remote_content_blocked": {
      "title": "Blocks remote content",
      "weight": 2,
      "answer": "no",
      "evidence": null,
      "note": "No documented option to block remote images or tracking pixels."
    },
    "any_provider": {
      "title": "Works with any provider",
      "weight": 1,
      "answer": "yes",
      "evidence": "https://www.spikenow.com/help/setting-up-your-spike-account/",
      "note": "Works with Gmail, Office 365, Exchange, iCloud, Yahoo and any IMAP account."
    }
  },
  "tests": {
    "ssllabs": null,
    "observatory": null,
    "internetnl_web": null,
    "internetnl_mail": null,
    "trackers": [
      {
        "name": "Facebook SDK",
        "host": "connect.facebook.net",
        "effect": "no"
      },
      {
        "name": "Google Analytics",
        "host": "www.google-analytics.com",
        "effect": "no"
      },
      {
        "name": "Google Tag Manager",
        "host": "www.googletagmanager.com",
        "effect": "no"
      }
    ],
    "tested_at": "2026-10-01T07:01:48.969Z"
  },
  "last_modified": "2026-10-01T07:44:20Z"
}