Athena: Firewall & Adblocker

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About this app

Athena is a comprehensive security and privacy protection app for Android, designed to provide robust, system-wide protection with a modern interface and no need for root access. Below is a concise summary of its features and unique selling points:

- Advanced Real-time Protection: Blocks malware, spyware, trackers, and harmful applications with minimal system impact.
- Network Access Control: Lets users monitor and block network connections for all apps, including system apps, preventing unauthorized data transmissions.
- Privacy Shield: Blocks trackers, analytics, and digital fingerprinting to protect user privacy.
- Offline Operation: Works offline, with all security processing happening locally no external servers or remote VPNs required.
- Flexible Modes: Supports both VPN and root modes. VPN mode works without root, while root users get additional features and potential performance boosts.
- Comprehensive Customization: Users can block malicious websites, filter by content category (e.g., Gambling, Social Media), disable internet access per app, monitor packets, and block specific IPs or traffic types.

- Material Design UI: Features an intuitive, modern interface for ease of use.

Ratings and reviews

Edit: After some traveling and testing it in a different country, seems to be not working. It either blocks most network traffic or doesn't block anything. I can't help but feel I'm missing something in the configuration though. So far so good Saw the reviews which made me a bit skeptical but after setting up the firewall and testing out the AdBlock it works really well with no connectivity issues. I hope this review will help others realize that whatever issue the app had, it was fixed.

Some apps like YouTube (and most Google apps) are not even listed, probably so Google wouldn't see it as a danger to its profits, otherwise I'm not sure it would be allowed on the Play Store. As many apps use advertising via Google, it seems it doesn't actually do anything to protect you from ads, maybe from malicious ones only, at best. Some apps that won't run if they detect VPN network (Vodafone app for example), won't run while this app is "on" and can't find option to exclude single app.

There are few bugs, app takes way too long to open, after I disable firewall at night, and turn it back on in morning, settings like malware blocking, ad blocking, etc that I enabled before gets automatically disabled, if internet is off it stops, no VPN key icon, notification is there tho. Also please add an option to pause and resume it from notification so I don't need to open the app every time. Also option to blacklist apps so it bypasses VPN.

What’s new

- Fix crashing on start
- Add help dialog