Yeah, the fossify apps are at least guaranteed to be safer than the simple ones from zipo. if you're using simple apps, you ought to switch to the fossify forks.
And yet, if you look them up you'll find many of them have tens of millions of downloads. It's crazy the types of random shit people thoughtlessly download from the Play Store. The North Korean spy agency also had spyware apps on there until recently, targeting South Korean users.