Duplicant: Clone Apps

Two accounts. One phone.

Duplicant makes a second copy of an app you already have. Both sit on your home screen, both stay signed in, and neither one knows about the other.

Tap a clone and it opens.

NOTIFICATIONS ARRIVE

A clone gets its own notifications, with its own icon, its own sound and its own buttons. This is the thing people ask for most, and it works for the apps we have tested it on.

TELL YOUR COPIES APART

Give a clone its own name and a coloured mark. "Work" and "Personal", instead of two identical icons you have to guess between.

NO ACCOUNT, NO SYNC

No account and no sign-up. Duplicant never sees what you do inside a copy: no login, nothing syncing, nothing uploaded. Two things do leave, and both are worth saying plainly. If something breaks, Duplicant can send us a report naming the app it broke on — that switch is in Settings and you can turn it off. And the free version's ads come from Google, which receives what an ad is normally told.

WHAT'S FREE

Two copies of each app and five copies in total. Every feature is included: profiles, home-screen shortcuts, a searchable app list, putting your copies in any order, and a stop button that closes a copy for real. The free version shows ads.

DUPLICANT MAX

One payment. No subscription, nothing renews, and nothing to cancel. It removes the ads and raises both limits.

WHAT IT CANNOT DO

Some apps check whether they are running inside a copy and refuse to start. Banking apps and some games are the usual ones, and no cloning tool can change that.

Only one copy of each app receives push notifications at a time, and you choose which one.

VPN apps do not work inside a copy.

Up to 32 copies can run at the same time.

Copies do not get your location.

PERMISSIONS

Duplicant asks for what it needs to run your copies, plus the advertising ID the free version's ads use. Android can also ask you for the camera, the microphone, access to music and audio, your contacts, or a phone permission. That happens only during setup, which you can skip, or when a copy asks, and the box says Duplicant. If you say no, the copy just can't use that part. No photos, no location.