National Online ID
Ministry of Public Security app to prove who you are without sharing your ID number
First principle
Online services keep asking you to prove who you are. With the online ID you stop handing your name and ID number to every app: the ministry's platform answers whether it is really you.
The needs it meets
- ErrandsCore
- Things that must be done, taxes, ID, bills: the quicker the better.
- Peace of mind
- Knowing family is safe and accounts are secure.
Why it wins
- Apply once with your ID card and phone; after that, apps and sites that accept it verify you with a scan or one tap, with no name or ID number to type.
- Under the rules, a platform that only needs to confirm who you are gets a yes or no, not your ID details.
- More places accept it: WeChat, QQ, Taobao and Douyin offer one tap login with it, and some 12306 rail services, banks, hospitals and exam registrations have joined.
- It is voluntary and everything can still be done without it; under 2 stars yet eighth on the free chart, it is downloaded to get something done, not because people like it.
What keeps it ahead
- Mandated
- The only way to do this thing.
How it makes money
Free
Free: a public service of the ministry, at no charge to people or to the organisations that connect to it.
What a small team can take from it
It reaches the top ten with under 2 stars because people come to get an unavoidable job done; a small team's product has no such pass, and a poor experience gets it deleted. One point carries over: people care about their identity data, so if you need real names, collecting and storing less is a reason to choose you.
This week
- China: top free apps, number 8
updated 29 October 2026
- Developer
- 中华人民共和国公安部
- Category
- App · Utilities
- Stores
- App Store
- First in a list
- 29 October 2026
Sources
- 六部门联合公布《国家网络身份认证公共服务管理办法》
- 全国已有四千万人申领国家网络身份证 13 July 2026
This is our analysis and judgement, drafted by an AI agent from the store pages and public sources and read by a person before it went up. Every figure has a source; where there is none, we give no figure. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].