plainkit. audit

plainkit

About this app

Few people notice that a flashlight app has been granted the microphone, that a game installed a year ago still sees their contacts, or that some app can read every notification, including SMS codes.

Audit goes through every app on your phone – including the ones that came with it and can't normally be uninstalled – and tells you, in a plain sentence, what each one can reach and what it carries inside:

• Permissions in plain language – what you actually granted, what it got automatically, and what does nothing on your Android.
• Real status of special access – all files, draw over other apps, install apps, usage stats.
• Special abilities that are turned on – accessibility service, notification access, keyboard, device admin.
• Tracking libraries in the code – advertising, marketing, analytics, fraud detection and crash reporting.
• Origin – came with the phone, from Google Play, or installed manually.
• What changed – after an app updates, you see new permissions and libraries.

It sums this up in a few sentences instead of one scary number. And it tells you what it can't know: a library in the code doesn't mean the app is sending data.

Audit itself has no internet permission, so it can’t connect to the internet and sends nothing – you can check that right inside it. No ads, no account, open source (GPLv3).

What’s new

* New: Phone check - security update age, screen lock, USB debugging, apps allowed to install other apps, accessibility and notification access, known signs of root
* New: Who can do what - microphone, camera, location, all files and more, each with the list of apps
* Uninstall button for regular apps (Android asks you to confirm)
* New permission REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES, used only for that button