Smart App Manager: AppScope

AppScope shows everything installed on your phone as a field of bubbles. The bigger the bubble, the more of whatever you are looking at. Change the filter and the same apps rearrange around a new question.

That is the whole idea: one picture, several questions, and an answer you can see before you have read a single number.

Six ways to look at your apps

• Storage — which apps are actually taking up the space

• Cache — which ones are holding temporary data

• Permissions — which have the most access to your phone

• Usage — where your screen time really goes

• Unused — space held by apps you have stopped opening

• Last used and Install date — what you opened recently, and what has been there longest

Tap any bubble

Open one app and see its size broken into app, data and cache; its permissions grouped by what they actually reach — camera, microphone, location, contacts — and separated into allowed and denied; its screen time, launch count and when you last opened it; plus version, install date and where it was installed from.

From there, one tap takes you to Android's own screens for that app, with it already selected.

Cleanup, without anything happening behind your back

A separate view lists what is worth a second look: large caches, apps you have not opened in a month, unusually big installs. It tells you roughly how much you could free. It never deletes anything, never preselects anything, and every row opens the app so you can look first.

Honest about what Android will and will not tell it

Some figures the system simply will not share with an app. Where that happens, AppScope shows a dash and explains why, instead of showing a zero or an estimate dressed up as a measurement. If a number is on the screen, the system gave it to us.

Per-app battery and per-app memory are not offered at all, because Android does not expose either to a normal app. Nothing in AppScope guesses at them.

Everything stays on your phone

• Your list of installed apps is read and analysed on the device

• No account, no sign-in, no sync, no cloud

• No analytics, no advertising identifiers, no tracking

• Works completely offline

• The only thing that ever leaves your phone is a feedback message, and only when you write one and send it

Permissions, and why

Query all packages — to see the apps the visualisation is made of. Without it Android shows an app only a handful of others, and there is no product.

Usage access — optional, and off until you switch it on in system settings. It unlocks the app/data/cache breakdown and everything time-based. AppScope works without it; the storage filter falls back to download size and says so.

AppScope does not modify, clear, stop or remove other apps. Clearing cache, revoking a permission and uninstalling are operations Android reserves for itself, and they happen in Android's own screens, under Android's own confirmation. No root required, and none used.

Also included

• A list view with sorting, for when a picture is the wrong shape for the job

• Search by app name or package

• Light, dark and follow-the-system themes

• Pinch to zoom, drag to pan, long press for quick actions

• Adjustable bubble sizing and animation, including turning motion off