Is an app watching my phone?
How an app gets onto a phone unseen, and how to check for one, calmly.
Applore for Android Check your phone for apps that watch you in secret.
Applore checks your phone for known stalkerware. These are apps that someone with your PIN, a repair shop or a past owner could install to watch it. The check is free, runs on your phone, and tells you what it can miss.
Applore is made by GTS Infosoft LLP. It also locks private apps with a PIN or fingerprint (App Lock, free) and does the everyday phone jobs.
Free on Google Play · Android 8.0 and up · No ads on the safety screens
The app is in हिन्दी and 20 other languages.
100,000+installs on Google Play · reviews since 2018 · as of 7 Oct 2026
It can miss new apps, and a clean result doesn't prove the phone is clean. How the check decides
The check runs on your phoneYour list of apps isn't sent to advertisers or analytics.
Free, with no ads on the safety screensIn both versions of Applore.
It helps you think before you deleteRemoving an app can alert whoever installed it. Applore lists helplines.
Start here
Pick your situation
Three short guides. Stop at any point.
Phone back from a repair
A five-minute check of new apps, special access and account settings.
Bought a second-hand phone
Reset it, then check what the last owner may have left behind.
How to check an Android phone for spyware and stalkerware, step by step · All the phone safety guides
Safety tools
Free safety tools for when someone else has had your phone
Free in both versions of Applore, with no ads on these screens.
Free
Suspicious App Checker
Compares your apps with a reviewed list of known stalkerware and harmful apps. It also flags apps that hide their icon and have sensitive access. It can miss new apps.
Free
Safety Check
A walk through the settings someone could change with brief access to your phone: screen lock, accessibility, device admin apps, location sharing.
Free
Before you remove anything
Removing an app can alert whoever installed it. Applore helps you think first, and saves a report on your phone that you share only if you choose.
Free
Talk to someone and Quick exit
Helplines inside the app. Quick exit leaves Applore in one tap and removes it from Recents.
What people say
What people say on Google Play
Reviews go back to 2018. A few we chose; all 3,606 ratings are on Google Play.
5 out of 5 stars
Absolutely Great App! Full of all sorts of helpful tools. I was happy to pay for PRO Version.
5 out of 5 stars
The Best Security settings app ever.
5 out of 5 stars
mind blowing. i can check security, set mental wellbeing to stay away from phone at times… overall awesome app, very helpful.
Reviews are quoted word for word from Google Play, shortened only where marked with “…”. Reviewers are not named. Read all reviews on Google Play.
Lock what's private
Keep private apps, photos and passwords behind your PIN
If someone picks up your unlocked phone, these decide what they can open.
Free
App Lock
Lock chosen apps with a PIN, pattern or fingerprint. Lock Groups switch a set on and off at once.
Pro
Vault Gallery and Private Camera
Photos, videos and documents in a private vault that opens only inside Applore.
Free
Password Vault
Passwords with autofill, backed up to your own Google Drive.
How the check works
How the check decides, and what it can miss
Applore compares the apps on your phone with a list of known stalkerware and harmful apps, built from public research by Echap, MVT and ESET. Each update is reviewed and published by hand, and Applore checks for a new list about once a day. Known harmful apps are matched by signing certificate or exact file, never by name alone. It also flags apps from outside an app store that hide their icon and hold sensitive access. The whole check runs on your phone.
If it finds something serious, a reminder repeats until you act. On the lock screen it shows only Applore. Once the phone is unlocked, it says an app may be monitoring the phone. It does not name which one.
Read how the check worksEveryday tools
And the everyday jobs, in the same app
- App Manager: uninstall several apps at once; back up app files to your own Google Drive.
- Storage Tools: find exact duplicate files (Free: one group a day).
- Files and contacts: a file explorer, duplicate contact merging and vCard backups.
- Mental Wellbeing: Focus Mode, Paused Apps and daily App usage limits.
- Device Information: hardware details and a Hardware Test for speakers, sensors and buttons.
Your phone, your data
What stays on your phone, and what doesn't
- The check runs on your phone. Your list of installed apps is not sent to analytics or advertisers.
- Findings, the trust list and snapshots stay on the device. Checking for list updates sends nothing about your apps.
- Vault and password backups go to your own Google Drive, only when you turn backup on.
Some things do leave the phone, and the privacy policy lists each one: your account details if you sign in (App Lock setup asks you to), app names when you open App Category, crash reports and analytics, and ad data in Applore Free.
Free and Pro
What's free, and what Pro adds
Applore Free has every safety tool, App Lock, Password Vault and the file and contact tools. It shows ads, never on the safety screens.
Applore Pro removes ads and adds Phone back check (save a snapshot before a repair or a loan, compare when the phone is back), Vault Gallery, Private Camera, Advance Lock and Focus Mode schedules.
Who makes Applore
Made by GTS Infosoft LLP
Applore is an Android app from GTS Infosoft LLP that checks installed apps for known stalkerware and hidden monitoring apps, locks private apps, and manages apps and files. Its safety tools are free and ad-free; Applore Pro removes ads everywhere else. It works on Android 8.0 and up, is not an antivirus, and can miss new apps. Questions go to info@applore.io.
About Applore and how we write about it · GTS Infosoft on Google Play