TTP Report: Nudify Apps Widely Available in Apple and Google App Stores
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2026
Contact: Michael Clauw, mclauw@campaignforaccountability.org, 202.780.5750
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The recent controversy over Grok-generated sexual deepfakes on X has put pressure on Apple and Google to remove the X and Grok apps from their app stores. But a new Tech Transparency Project (TTP) investigation shows that Apple and Google have a much bigger problem when it comes to so-called “nudify” apps.
TTP’s investigation found 55 apps in the Google Play Store and 47 apps in the Apple App Store that can easily create nonconsensual, sexualized images of women—despite the apps’ apparent violation of both companies’ policies.
“Apple and Google are supposed to be vetting the apps in their stores. But they’ve been offering dozens of apps that can be used to show people with minimal or no clothing—making them ripe for abuse,” said Michelle Kuppersmith, Executive Director of Campaign for Accountability, the nonprofit watchdog group that runs TTP.
The apps identified by TTP have been collectively downloaded more than 705 million times worldwide and generated $117 million in revenue, according to an independent app analytics firm. Because Google and Apple take a cut of that revenue, they are directly profiting from the activity of these apps.
The Google Play Store prohibits “depictions of sexual nudity, or sexually suggestive poses in which the subject is nude” or “minimally clothed,” and specifically bans apps “that claim to undress people or see through clothing.” Apple prohibits apps that produce content that is “offensive, insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust, in exceptionally poor taste, or just plain creepy,” including “overtly sexual or pornographic material.”
TTP’s findings suggest that Apple and Google are not effectively policing their app stores—and enforcing their own policies—when it comes to these types of apps. The two companies have already come under pressure from a bipartisan group of state attorneys general over their efforts to prevent harms from nonconsensual deepfakes.
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