Application shielding · RankedGuardsquare DexGuard / iXGuard
Guardsquare DexGuard / iXGuard is application shielding software that hardens the code of Android and iOS apps at build time · guardsquare.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 4 of 90 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Appdome is first at 23%.
Appdome is first at 36%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Appdome is first at 51%.
Why models recommend it
“Guardsquare is the code-level benchmark, unifying continuous mobile app security testing (MAST) with polymorphic code hardening, and RASP.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · first choice
“Guardsquare is widely considered the gold standard for mobile app protection, combining advanced code obfuscation with automated RASP.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“DexGuard if you need the broadest mobile app protection, especially if you care about code hardening and anti-tamper protections.”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Consider established vendors like GuardSquare (DexGuard/ProGuard), AppDome, Argus, Promon (SHIELD), or Zimperium.”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Do not go with Jscrambler or enterprise-tier tools (Appdome, Guardsquare, Zimperium)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Avoid as a first choice on a tight budget: Appdome or Guardsquare”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · warning
“When evaluating commercial app shielding vendors (such as Guardsquare, Promon, Digital.ai, Appdome, PreEmptive, Zimperium, etc.), watch for these specific drawbacks”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“6% first-choice share, 14% negative rate, "accepted challenger"; ... "What to Avoid on a Tight Budget - Guardsquare DexGuard/iXGuard typically ver..."”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Guardsquare DexGuard / iXGuard, over the 155 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 132 | 54 | Compare → | |
| 82 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 44 | 0 | View → | |
| 41 | 3 | View → | |
| 40 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 0 | View → | |
| 32 | 0 | View → | |
| 26 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 3 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Guardsquare DexGuard / iXGuard →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Guardsquare DexGuard / iXGuard's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- mobile app developers
- Price stated
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How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 145 of the 155 answers that named Guardsquare DexGuard / iXGuard and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
417 of the 525 domain citations in answers naming Guardsquare DexGuard / iXGuard came from a third party's page. Fifty were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 468 | 14 | 2026-09-29 | AI coding, App shielding | |
| News or press | 65 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 35 | 1 | 2026-08-04 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 34 | 1 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Conference or event | 19 | undated | |||
| Case study | 15 | 0 | 2025-04-12 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 12 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 9 | 0 | 2022-01-13 | ||
| Podcast or video | 8 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29On device fraud mobile malware blog
- 2026-09-22Debunking mobile app security misconceptions blog
- 2026-09-16On demand what cisos should know about the mobile apps running their business webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-15Llms for software development blog
- 2026-09-09C%C3%B3mo proteger tu aplicaci%C3%B3n m%C3%B3vil y las apis con las que interact%C3%BAa blog
- 2026-09-08Mobile app version deprecation blog
Events in person
- October 26, 2026 to October 29, 2026FS-ISAC 2026 Americas Fall SummitAustin · attends
- November 5, 2026 to November 6, 2026OWASP Global AppSec USA 2026San Francisco · attends
As the event pages on guardsquare.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page guardsquare.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.