What stays on your phone and what leaves it
A plain-language summary of Applore data privacy, feature by feature: what stays on your phone, what goes to your own Google Drive if you turn it on, and what is sent to Applore or Google. The privacy policy is the full version.
Short answer
Stays on your phone
These are stored and processed on your phone only. They are not sent to Applore or anyone else:
- Suspicious App Checker results, including apps you mark as trusted. The check compares your apps with a threat list on the phone and uploads nothing about them. See how detection works.
- Safety Check progress and results.
- Phone back check snapshots and comparisons (Applore Pro).
- Evidence reports you create. They leave your phone only if you share them yourself through Android’s share sheet.
- Support hotlines. The list is included in the app, and Applore does not record which one you view or contact.
- App Lock settings, the apps you lock, your PIN or pattern, and your unlock history (which locked app was opened, when, and whether it was unlocked). The optional accessibility service, used by App Lock and Mental Wellbeing, reads only the name of the app in front, and nothing it reads leaves your phone. Applore never locks Android Settings, so you can always turn the service off or uninstall Applore.
- Usage statistics used for screen time, app time limits, Focus Mode and paused apps.
- The file index used by the file manager and duplicate finder.
- Vault Gallery files (free for up to 20 items, unlimited in Applore Pro) and Private Camera files (Applore Pro), kept in a private vault that opens only inside Applore.
- Password Vault entries.
Goes to your own Google Drive, only if you turn it on
You can back up to your own Google Drive account:
- Vault Gallery photos, videos and documents (audio files are not backed up);
- Password Vault entries;
- contacts, as a vCard file;
- app installers (APK files).
Backups go directly from your phone to your Drive, using the permission you give with your Google account. Applore’s servers never receive the content. You can turn backups off in the app, and remove Applore’s access in your Google account settings.
Goes to Applore’s server
| When | What is sent | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You sign in with Google (optional) | Email address, name and profile photo link; a login token and account ID are created | Your account |
| While you are signed in | Messaging token; session start and stop, session ID, network type, app version | Notifications and session records |
| Any request to Applore’s server | Device model, Android version, app version, Android device ID, and your login token if signed in | Make the request work |
| You open App Category | Package names of your installed apps, in batches, and your Android device ID | Return app categories. Not used for advertising. |
| You buy Applore Pro | Signed purchase data, signature and purchase ID | Confirm Pro |
| First launch after install, before you sign in | Android device ID and the install referrer Google Play provides (campaign parameters, or a referral code) | An install record, linked to your account if you later sign in |
| In the background | Nothing about you: Applore downloads a list of apps Google removed from Google Play | Show Removed from Play |
| About once a day, when online | Nothing about you or your apps: Applore checks applore.io for a newer signed threat list | Keep the Suspicious App Checker up to date |
All connections use HTTPS.
Goes to Google
- Google Play Protect (if it is on): Applore asks Play Protect, through Google Play services on your phone, which installed apps it reports as harmful.
- Firebase Analytics: an app instance ID, screens viewed, feature use, purchase type and the number of detection results. It does not receive package names or your list of apps.
- Firebase Crashlytics and Performance Monitoring: crash reports, device and Android details and performance measurements.
- Firebase Cloud Messaging, In-App Messaging and Remote Config: an installation ID and messaging token, to deliver notifications, messages and settings.
- Google Play Billing: your purchase. Applore never receives your payment details.
- Google AdMob (Applore Free only): after the consent step where the law requires it, AdMob collects your IP address (approximate location), ad and app interactions, diagnostics, your advertising ID and app set ID. Your list of installed apps is not sent to advertising services.
Free and Pro
Applore Pro never starts the Google Mobile Ads SDK, never requests an ad, and does not ask for the advertising ID permission, so the AdMob data in the section above and your advertising ID are not collected in Pro. Applore Free shows ads only on its own screens: never on the safety screens, on the App Lock screen, or over other apps. Everything else on this page is the same in both versions. Compare Free and Pro.
Your choices
- Use Applore without signing in.
- Turn off Google Drive backups, and remove Applore’s Drive access in your Google account.
- Turn off accessibility, usage access or device admin for Applore in Android Settings. Why Applore asks for each permission explains what stops working.
- Reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings (Applore Free).
- Clear Applore’s data or uninstall it to remove what is stored on your phone. Export anything you want to keep first.
- Ask us to delete your Applore account.
Read the full policy
The privacy policy has the details, including the stalkerware check, vaults and backups, analytics and your rights. Questions: info@applore.io.