FlexiSPY vs. StealthGenie Android
Which is best for Spying on Facebook?

In this article we take a look at how FlexiSPY and StealthGenie each spy on Facebook messages sent and received from your target phone. We also discuss “rich content” and what types of shared multimedia are captured by each product. If you’re interested in how we conduct our testing, see here..

With shared media such a large part of modern IM communication, more than text alone must be captured to follow a complete IM conversation. StealthGenie clearly advertises Facebook capture including shared media, although in our testing StealthGenie completely failed to capture any Facebook data. This is compared to 5 different types of Facebook chat and shared media captured by FlexiSPY.

Aside from Facebook, StealthGenie also claims to capture Skype, WhatsApp, iMessage, Viber and BBM. We look at these in other articles from this series..

What StealthGenie Says About Facebook Capturing

StealthGenie claims to capture all Facebook chat, as well as “Get access to any photos, videos or audio files sent through Facebook chat and saved on the target phone.” This same statement is made for capturing WhatsApp, iMessage and Skype. However, we learned from testing all of these IM’s that StealthGenie is a master of language in disguise. What this really means is that you’ll only see those media files that were opened, and then manually “saved on the target phone”.

What Do We Really Get To See?

There’s no way to match one of these files to any part of an IM capture log, and they won’t show up at all if the shared media wasn’t first opened and then also saved manually by the user. Some photos and videos sent via chat won’t show up in the logs at all, while others may be represented by random unreadable text. This garbled text in the StealthGenie logs doesn’t link to anything, so you don’t know what it is and still miss these important elements of the conversation.

Most importantly, in our testing StealthGenie completely failed to capture even basic text logs or anything else from Facebook chat. We can’t say it won’t work for somebody somewhere, but we tested StealthGenie’s other IM capturing features and Facebook was the only one we couldn’t get any results from. You can see our other StealthGenie IM reviews here.

What is rich media and why is it important?

Modern IM chat is more conversational with a variety of ways to communicate; like stickers and emoticons, shared pictures and other media that convey entire meaning with just a click. IM conversations aren’t always isolated, but often ongoing through the day based only on shared stickers or photos. This type of content is now a regular part of how many people chat.

If a picture is sent by a contact and your target replies “I want that tonight!” then without seeing the picture you won’t know if your target wanted a hot dog… or something else. If they say “Meet me here” and send location data, or an audio recording that says “I love you,” you’ll never know what was really said or planned unless your spy software can also monitor this part of the message.

We used this information as sample data for testing both StealthGenie and FlexiSPY. In the screenshot Fig. 2 you can see a conversation with some of these Facebook chat elements as displayed on the target phone itself.

StealthGenie Facebook logs

After days of testing, we were never successful in capturing any Facebook data using StealthGenie. Again, we can’t say it won’t work for someone else, but Facebook is the only StealthGenie IM service that we never received results from. StealthGenie’s other IM capturing services provided ample data for our research, so we know things were working on our side of the test.

How does FlexiSPY capture Facebook?

The FlexiSPY dashboard showed all chat and media elements that were shared in our conversations. The logs are also laid out in the familiar and readable style of alternating contacts on each side of the screen, the same way chats are displayed in the Facebook app itself.

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FlexiSPY vs StealthGenie – The Facebook Bottom Line

In our case StealthGenie completely failed to capture any part of Facebook chat logs, including basic text. There simply weren’t any Facebook logs ever reported to our StealthGenie account, even though other StealthGenie chat logs did get captured (WhatsApp, etc.). If you’ve been able to get Facebook chat logs from StealthGenie, leave a comment or get in touch with us because we’d like to know about it. All we can say is that it never did work for our review.

This means StealthGenie is actually a non-competitor for Facebook chat, while FlexiSPY captured virtually all but emoticons (Facebook doesn’t actually send GPS location, only general place names). If you want the most from your Facebook chat monitoring, FlexiSPY is the only reliable choice.

FlexiSPY also captures other popular IM services which are summarized in the table below and in the blog article here.. These are compared in other articles from this series.