Greenify

Oasis Feng

About this app

Featured as Lifehacker's Top 1 Utility in 2013 Best Android Apps (http://goo.gl/1VMwnE), Android Authority's Top 3 Best Root Apps (http://goo.gl/g0L0qZ).

"Aggressive Doze" and "Doze on the Go" to maximize the battery saving on Android 6+, even without root! (details explained in settings)

Never should your phone or tablet become slower and battery hungrier after lots of apps installed. With Greenify, your device can run almost as smoothly and lastingly as it did the first day you had it!

Greenify help you identify and put the misbehaving apps into hibernation when you are not actively using them, to stop them from lagging your device or leeching the battery, in a unique way! They can do nothing without explicit launch by you or other apps, while still preserving full functionality when running in foreground.

Please report bugs in the XDA forum (http://goo.gl/ZuLDnE) or G+ community (http://goo.gl/MoszF).

Greenify NEVER EVER collects your personal data despite the capability of accessibility service, it just takes advantage of it to automate the hibernation procedure.

IMPORTANT: Greenifying an app implies that you are aware that all the background functionality (service, periodic task, event receiver, alarm, widget update, push message) of this app will become out of service during the hibernation except when you are using this app.

NEVER greenify alarm clock apps, instant messaging apps unless you don't rely on them. Please do verify the impact of greenified apps on which you heavily rely.

Note: Greenify does need background running services for auto-hibernation to work. It is designed and implemented in extremely lightweight and nearly zero CPU and battery consumption.

=== PERMISSIONS ===

DEVICE ADMIN: This app uses administrator privilege to turn off the screen immediately after automated hibernation on non-root devices. This permission will be requested explicitly for your consent only if required.
DRAW OVER OTHER APP: To dim the screen during automatic hibernation when the screen is expected to be off.
DISABLE SCREEN LOCK & BIND ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE: For automatic hibernation to work on non-root devices.
GET ACCOUNTS & WRITE SYNC SETTINGS: Control the account sync of apps if its sync task is too frequent.

This app uses Accessibility services, to automate the hibernation procedure.

=== FAQ ===

* It seems that automatic hibernation is not working.
* Some of my greenified apps (e.g. Google Maps) seems not hibernating.
* I want to greenify system apps!
* De-greenified apps still got no push notification!
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Read here: http://goo.gl/99lNYp

=== Translation ===

All translations are created by community volunteers and open for contribution: http://goo.gl/zCCDce

=== Donation ===

If you love Greenify, please consider the "donation package" (http://goo.gl/fpz5l) for extra experimental features:

* Greenify system apps
* In-depth details about how apps behave on your device
* And more

Ratings and reviews

I see that some don't get how it works. I've used it for many years, because it extend my phone 🔋 & performance greatly! Privacy too. Do this: open Greenify, when you see the list, ignore it and click on top right + sign, then select all the apps you rather don't want to keep on, like any games, all apps but themes, icon packs & communication like email should not make the list. Hit the ok ✅, then setup a Greenify widget or add a Greenify homescreen gesture like double tap. That's it.

Edit 05/04/2023 this app has been abandoned and has not been updated in years. While it used to work incredibly, now it consistently stops working and the phone has to be rebooted to restore the service. I have paid for the donation package as a really love this app but it appears that after so many years of loyal use, I will have to find an alternative........ (2018.... "Long push on home screen" constantly reverts back to the Google App. Other than that its a great app)

Was working great but ever since the last update, My Phone disables accessibility for greenfly when I lock the screen which causes it to stop working and apps not to hibernate. I've have screen to lock in 1 minute which is more than enough time to hibernate apps and let the app do it's thing but for some reason, it's always resetting the accessibility option. I'm on LG G4 Marshmallow - unrooted - i've done the ADB work around but still nothing. Never had a problem until I updated

What's new

NEW: Restrict the ability of selected app to run as foreground, to transform it to background-free. For non-root device, it requires Island with God mode activated. (Android 9+)
Wake-up tracker and cut-off now works for apps in Island and compatible with Android 10.
App analyzer is improved with foreground service detection and other minor tweaks.
Fixed "Hibernate and Sleep" shortcut when only apps in Island are pending.