Applore: Safety & App Manager

Applore is an all-in-one phone assistant: manage your apps and files, keep private apps locked, and check your phone for known stalkerware and hidden monitoring apps. The safety tools are free and show no ads.

SAFETY TOOLS (FREE, NO ADS)

• Needs your review: checks your installed apps against a reviewed list of known stalkerware, and flags sideloaded apps that behave like hidden monitoring apps, such as a hidden icon combined with accessibility or notification access.

• Why an app is flagged: every finding is shown with the signals behind it, so you can judge it yourself. If you installed the app and trust it, mark it as trusted.

• Monitoring apps: store-installed family and parental apps are labelled as monitoring apps, not spyware.

• Repeated reminders: if something serious is found, Applore reminds you later and again until you review it. The alert never names the app on the lock screen.

• Safety Check: a short guided review of the settings someone could change with brief access to your phone, such as screen lock, accessibility services and device admin apps.

• Safe removal guidance: steps to think through before removing a suspicious app, because removing it can alert the person who installed it.

• Support hotlines: contacts for domestic abuse and cyber crime help.

• Quick exit: one tap leaves Applore and removes it from Recents. Safety screens are hidden from screenshots and the Recents preview.

SOMEONE HAD YOUR PHONE? (PRO)

Save a private snapshot of your phone's apps and settings, then compare later to see what changed while the phone was out of your hands. The snapshot stays on your device.

PRIVACY

• App Lock: lock chosen apps with a PIN, pattern or fingerprint.

• Password Vault: keep your passwords in Applore with autofill, and back them up to your own Google Drive.

• Vault Gallery and Private Camera (Pro): keep photos and videos out of your normal gallery, in a folder that opens only inside Applore.

APP MANAGER

• Uninstall several apps at once and back up app files.

• See apps by category, rarely used apps and apps with admin permission.

• Review data usage per app.

STORAGE

• Find duplicate files, and open Android's storage settings straight from Applore.

FILES AND CONTACTS

• File manager with search.

• Find duplicate and rarely used contacts, and back up contacts to your own Google Drive.

DIGITAL WELLBEING

• Focus mode, paused apps and daily app time limits.

DEVICE INFORMATION

• Hardware details, CPU and memory, and hardware tests for the screen, speaker, sensors and more.

HOW DETECTION WORKS, AND ITS LIMITS

Scanning happens on your phone. The list of installed apps is not sent to analytics. Detection has limits: new or unknown apps, apps in a work profile, and tools that need a rooted phone may not be detected. Applore is not an antivirus and does not remove anything by itself. If you believe you are in danger, contact a local support service before changing anything on the phone, because removing a monitoring app can alert the person who installed it.

Stalkerware indicators © Echap, CC BY 4.0.

PERMISSIONS

• Query all packages: needed to check installed apps for stalkerware and to manage your apps.

• All files access: for the file manager and duplicate file search.

• Usage access: for app time limits, focus mode and usage insights.

• Accessibility service (optional): used by App Lock and Mental Wellbeing (Focus mode, paused apps, app time limits) to notice when a chosen app opens. It reads only that app's name, cannot read your screen or typing, and nothing leaves your phone.

• Device admin (optional): makes Applore harder to uninstall. You can remove it at any time.

Applore Free shows ads outside the safety screens. Applore Pro removes ads and adds the snapshot check, Vault Gallery and Private Camera. Pro does not detect more than Free: the stalkerware check and Safety Check are the same in both.