Index › Products › DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding

3Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

3 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding was named 3 times in App shielding, where Appdome led with 33%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market13 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In app shielding · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Application shielding	Developer platform	2%	13 of 87	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Appdome at 33%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“DoveRunner is specifically tailored for mid-market enterprises and provides features including runtime application self-protection, code obfuscation, anti-debugging” Claude Haiku 4.5 · App shielding · direct prompt · first choice

“If you need a commercial product with support and no fair-use cap” Muse Glimmer 30B · App shielding · budget prompt · alternative

“Budget-Friendly Option” Kimi K2 · App shielding · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Appdome3 of 31Not among the top eight

Guardsquare DexGuard / iXGuard2 of 30Not among the top eight

Promon SHIELD2 of 30Not among the top eight

Talsec freeRASP1 of 31Not among the top eight

AppSealing1 of 30Not among the top eight

Approov1 of 30Not among the top eight

Arxan1 of 30Not among the top eight

LIAPP1 of 30Not among the top eight

Zimperium MAPS1 of 30Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 3 of the 3 answers that named DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com3

softwaresuggest.com3

appsecsanta.com2

g2.com2

luciq.ai2

sourceforge.net2

thectoclub.com2

us.fitgap.com2

worldmetrics.org2

agentpedia.codes1

No domain is on file for DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/in-app-protection3

softwaresuggest.com/application-shielding-software3

luciq.ai/blog/top-mobile-app-protection-and-shielding-tools2

sourceforge.net/software/application-shielding2

thectoclub.com/tools/best-application-security-software2

worldmetrics.org/best/application-shielding-software2

agentpedia.codes/blog/mobile-app-security-20261

appdome.com/appdome-pricing1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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where DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name DoveRunner Mobile App Shielding, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.