Guides

Short, practical answers about the apps on your Android phone.

Which apps can access your camera, microphone or location on Android?

Step by step: see which Android apps are allowed to use your camera, microphone, location or contacts, which have special access, and how to find out since when.

How to see which apps were updated on your Android phone

Find out which Android apps updated recently, from which version to which, and why Android itself doesn't keep an update history – plus a free way to keep one.

How to find apps installed outside the Play Store on Android

How to check which Android apps came from an APK file or another app store, which apps may install other apps, and how to keep track of new ones.