Privacy policy

Who we are and what this policy covers

Applore is made by GTS Infosoft LLP (“we”, “us”, “our”). This policy applies to:

• Applore Free (applore.device.manager) on Google Play;
• Applore Pro (applore.device.manager.pro) on Google Play;
• this website, applore.io.

This policy replaces the policy dated 11 June 2021. If you have questions, email info@applore.io.

Summary

Many Applore features work only on your phone. Some features and services do send data. The table below matches the answers in the Google Play Data safety section. “Shared” means sent to a third party that is not acting on our behalf.

Applore does not collect your photos and videos, files and documents, contacts, precise location, messages, audio, calendar, health data, or web browsing and search history. Those stay on your phone, or go to your own Google Drive if you turn on a backup.

All connections between the apps and our server use HTTPS.

Signing in

Many Applore tools work without signing in. Setting up App Lock currently asks you to sign in with Google, and Password Vault, Vault Gallery and marking an app as trusted use your App Lock PIN or pattern. Signing in is also used to recover a forgotten PIN on your phone and for backups to your own Google Drive.

If you sign in with Google, Google shares your email address, name and profile photo link with Applore. Our server stores them with a login token and an account ID. While you are signed in, our server also stores:

• a Firebase Cloud Messaging token, so we can send notifications;
• session records: when a session starts and stops, a session ID, the network type (Wi-Fi or mobile data) and the app version.

Each request from the app to our server includes your device model, Android version, app version and your phone’s Android device ID. If you are signed in, it also includes your login token.

If our server rejects your login token, the app signs you out on your phone. It keeps your App Lock PIN or pattern and your vault, so you can still open them.

When you first open Applore after installing it, and before you sign in, the app sends your Android device ID and the install referrer that Google Play provides (campaign parameters, including the ad and the ad click identifier if you reached Google Play from an ad, or a referral code if you installed from a referral link) to our server. Our server creates a temporary record for the install; if you later sign in, that record is linked to your account.

To delete your account, see Delete your Applore account.

Checking your phone for stalkerware and hidden monitoring apps

Applore can check the apps installed on your phone for known stalkerware and for apps that behave like hidden monitoring tools. Before the first check, Applore explains this and asks for your permission. It does not read your list of apps for these checks until you agree.

To do this, Applore reads information about installed apps on your device: app names, package names, who installed each app, whether its icon is hidden, which special access it has been given (for example accessibility, notification access or device admin), the permissions it requests, its signing certificate fingerprint and a fingerprint of its installation file, which Applore works out on your phone. It compares this information with a threat list of known stalkerware, spyware and harmful apps. The list combines the Echap stalkerware indicators (CC BY 4.0), the Mobile Verification Toolkit indicators (MIT licence) and ESET’s published indicators (BSD 2-Clause licence). A copy comes with the app. About once a day, when your phone is online, Applore checks our website for a newer signed list. That download sends nothing about you or your apps beyond what any web request carries, such as your IP address.

If Google Play Protect is on, Applore also asks it, through Google Play services on your phone, which installed apps it reports as harmful, and shows them in the results. Google’s privacy policy applies to Play Protect.

The comparison runs entirely on your phone, and nothing about your apps is uploaded for it. The results, including any app you mark as trusted, are stored only on your device. We do not send your list of installed apps, or the results of this check, to analytics or advertising services. No check can find every monitoring tool, and a result that finds nothing does not prove that your phone is free of monitoring.

Applore also downloads a list of apps that Google removed from Google Play for policy reasons, such as adware or fraud, and shows any installed app that is on it under “Removed from Play”. This download sends no personal information about you beyond what any web request carries.

Separately, the App Category feature sends the package names of your installed apps, in batches, to our server so it can return app categories. It also sends your Android device ID. That data is used only to show categories and is not used for advertising. It is sent only when you open App Category.

Sharing a record of what Applore found

If Applore flags an app, you can choose to create a record of that finding (an evidence report, part of Applore Pro), for example to keep or to give to someone who is helping you. The record is created on your phone. Applore does not upload it anywhere. It only leaves your phone if you choose to share it, using Android’s share sheet, with an app or person you select. After that, the privacy practices of the app or person you shared it with apply. We never receive a copy.

Phone back check snapshot (Applore Pro)

If you use Phone back check, Applore saves a snapshot of information about your phone’s apps and security-related settings, such as which apps are installed and which have special access. Later, Applore compares the current state with the snapshot so you can see what changed. The snapshot and the comparison are stored and processed only on your device. They are not sent to us or to anyone else. Deleting the snapshot in the app, clearing Applore’s data, or uninstalling Applore removes it.

Safety Check, support hotlines and Quick exit

Safety Check reviews settings on your phone, such as the screen lock, accessibility services and device admin apps. It runs on your device and nothing is sent to us.

The hotline list is included in the app. Showing it does not need a network request, and we do not record which hotline you view or call. Calls and messages you make to a hotline go through your phone’s dialer, messaging app or browser, not through Applore.

Safety screens block screenshots and the Recents preview. Quick exit closes Applore and removes it from Recents. It does not delete data or hide that Applore is installed.

App Lock, Mental Wellbeing and the accessibility service

App Lock settings, the apps you lock, and your PIN or pattern are stored on your phone.

App Lock (Lock Apps and Lock Groups) and Mental Wellbeing (Focus Mode, Paused Apps and App usage limits) can use Android’s accessibility service, if you turn it on. The service receives only window-change events and reads only the package name of the app that comes to the front of the screen. It is set up without access to window content. It does not read what is on your screen, what you type or your messages. Nothing the service reads is sent off your phone or shared. The only record kept, on your phone only, is your unlock history: when a locked app is opened, which app it was, and whether it was unlocked. The service is optional: without it, these features use usage access instead.

Applore never locks or blocks Android Settings, even if an earlier version let you add it to your locked apps. You can always open Settings to turn off the accessibility service, usage access or device admin for Applore, or to uninstall it.

If you forget your PIN or pattern, you recover it on your phone. You either choose the Google account you signed in with, or use your fingerprint if you are not signed in. Nothing is sent to us.

Earlier versions of Applore sent a copy of the App Lock PIN or pattern to our server for recovery by email. Current versions do not. If an older version uploaded a copy for your account, we delete it, together with any stored pattern image, when we delete your account (see Delete your Applore account). You can also ask us to delete it on its own by emailing info@applore.io.

Earlier versions of Applore saved a front-camera photo on your phone when a wrong PIN or pattern was entered. Current versions do not take these photos. Photos saved by an earlier version stay in your phone’s Pictures folder until you delete them. They were never sent to us.

Device admin (“Protect from uninstall”)

Advance Lock in Applore Pro can make Applore a device admin app. Then Applore must be turned off as a device admin in Settings before it can be uninstalled.

Applore uses device admin only for this. It does not ask Android for any device admin rights, so it is not told about screen unlocks and cannot wipe, lock or change your phone. You can turn it off at any time in Settings.

Older versions of Applore offered an “Intruder Alert” setting that took a photo and could sound an alarm after a failed screen unlock. Current versions have removed it.

Vaults, passwords and backups

Password Vault stores your passwords on your phone. Viewing them requires your App Lock PIN. You can export them to a CSV file when you choose. Android autofill uses the vault only on your phone.

Vault Gallery (free for up to 20 items, unlimited with Applore Pro) and Private Camera (Applore Pro) keep photos, videos, audio and documents in a hidden folder in your phone’s storage. They open only inside Applore after your PIN. Photos you take with Private Camera go straight to the vault instead of your gallery.

Backups to Google Drive. You can turn on backups of your vault (photos, videos and documents; audio files are not backed up), passwords, contacts (as a vCard file) and app installers (APK files). Backups go directly from your phone to your own Google Drive account, using the permission you give with your Google account. We never receive the content of your backups. Google’s privacy policy applies to your Drive.

You can turn off backups in the app. You can remove Applore’s access to your Google Drive in your Google account settings.

Analytics, crash reports and app services

Applore uses Google Firebase services, which act on our behalf:

• Google Analytics for Firebase: 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, and we do not set a user ID.
• Firebase Crashlytics and Performance Monitoring: crash reports, device and Android details, an installation ID and performance measurements.
• Firebase Cloud Messaging, In-App Messaging, Remote Config, Cloud Firestore and Realtime Database: an installation ID and a messaging token, used to deliver notifications, messages, settings and version checks.

Google’s privacy policy is at policies.google.com/privacy.

Advertising in Applore Free

Applore Free shows ads from Google AdMob. Before ads are requested, Google’s consent tool (User Messaging Platform) asks for your consent where the law requires it. Ads are not shown on the safety screens, on the App Lock screen, or anywhere outside Applore’s own screens.

According to Google’s disclosure for the Google Mobile Ads SDK, AdMob collects and shares your IP address (which gives an approximate location), how you interact with ads and the app, diagnostics, your advertising ID and your app set ID. Google uses this data for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention.

We do not send your list of installed apps to advertising services.

Applore Pro does not show ads, does not start the Google Mobile Ads SDK, never requests an ad, and does not ask for the advertising ID permission, so it does not collect your advertising ID.

You can reset your advertising ID or delete it in your Android settings.

Purchases

Purchases are handled by Google Play Billing. Google processes your payment; we do not receive your card or payment details.

Applore decides whether you have Applore Pro from Google Play’s purchase records on your phone. For a subscription (yearly or monthly), the app also sends the signed purchase data, its signature and the purchase ID to our server to confirm it; if you are signed in, we link the purchase to your account. A one-time Lifetime purchase is confirmed by Google Play alone and is not sent to our server.

This website

applore.io has no analytics, no ads and no tracking cookies. Your browser keeps three things for the site: your colour theme and your language choice (in local storage and a lang cookie), and, only for the rest of your visit, the campaign tags in the link you arrived from, such as an ad’s name and click identifier (in session storage). The site uses those tags only to add them to its Google Play links, so that the install can be credited to the ad. The website does not send them anywhere; Google Play passes them to the app as the install referrer described in Signing in.

How long we keep data

• Data on your phone stays until you delete it in the app, clear Applore’s data or uninstall Applore.
• Account data on our server is kept while your account exists. After a deletion request, we delete it within 30 days, as described on Delete your Applore account.
• Session records (login tokens and device tokens) are kept while you are signed in. They are deleted when you sign out, and when your account is deleted.
• Server logs and backups are kept for no longer than 35 days, then overwritten or deleted.
• Firebase and AdMob data is kept under Google’s own retention settings for our Firebase project and Google’s AdMob policies. Email us if you want the current setting.

We may keep records that the law requires, such as tax records, for as long as it requires.

Your choices and rights

• Use most Applore tools without signing in.
• Turn off backups, and remove Applore’s access to Google Drive in your Google account.
• Turn off the accessibility service, usage access or device admin for Applore in Android Settings.
• Reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings.
• Delete Applore’s data on your phone by clearing its data or uninstalling it. Export anything you want to keep first.
• Ask us to delete your account: see Delete your Applore account.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete your personal data, to object to some processing, or to complain to a data protection authority. To use these rights, email info@applore.io. We will never ask for your PIN, pattern or password.

Children

Applore is not designed for children and is not part of Google Play’s Families programme. Do not use the apps if you are under 13, or under the minimum age for consenting to online services where you live (16 in some countries). If you think a child has given us personal data, email us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

We will post any changes on this page and update the “Last updated” date. If a change is significant, we will give notice in the app or by email where we can.

Changelog

• 13 October 2026: new Applore Pro plans (yearly, monthly, one-time Lifetime): how a purchase is confirmed, and that Lifetime is not sent to our server; Vault Gallery is free for up to 20 items; creating an evidence report is part of Applore Pro.
• 12 October 2026: new section on this website (theme and language choices, campaign tags from ads passed to Google Play links); the install referrer can include an ad click identifier.
• 3 October 2026: Threat list with daily signed updates and Play Protect results in the stalkerware check; accessibility use by Mental Wellbeing and the local unlock history; Android Settings is never locked; intruder photos and failed-unlock notices removed; sign-in needed to set up App Lock; install record (device ID and install referrer) described for every install; no ads on the App Lock screen; Applore Pro no longer requests the advertising ID permission.
• 15 September 2026: draft rewrite for the September 2026 safety release. Adds the stalkerware check, evidence records, the snapshot check, Safety Check, hotlines and Quick exit. Mirrors the Google Play Data safety answers.
• 11 June 2021: previous version.

Contact

GTS Infosoft LLP Email: info@applore.io