Clueful App for Android Review
Most people won’t pay much attention to the ‘permissions’ requested by apps at the time of installation. Some of them even request permissions to query data and information in your device, and we give them a go-ahead without even thinking what it actually means. Clueful app for Android from Bitdefender help you keep an eye on such apps. It scans the apps installed in your phone and tells you what kind of info they access. You can get Clueful Android app for free from Google Play Store.
Clueful App Features
Clueful app for Android scans the installed apps and informs you as to which apps are abusing the access they have over your personal info. You’ll be actually bemused to find what some apps are doing in your phone. Some apps are found to be reading/transmitting data from your text messages, while some others even go to the extent of leaking your device ID. Clueful help you weed out potentially harmful apps from your phone.
When you first fire up Clueful app, it’ll run a scan of all the apps installed in your phone and ranks them with a unique privacy score (on a scale of 100). It also tells you if the privacy score of a particular app is ‘high’, ‘fair’ or ‘low’. However, the said ranking technique of Clueful can’t be deemed as perfect. For example, while Clueful tells you what data the apps are accessing, it does not tell you why they got a particular score. For example, if an app accesses your text messages, it does not mean that the particular one is a high risk app. What matters is what an app is actually doing with sensitive data. Clueful in fact is clueless about such a possibility. It just highlights the fact that a particular app is accessing some internal data.
Since Android Clueful app is a product of Bitfinder, some efforts has been made by the parent company to market its other products. When you open the app settings, the very first option you’ll see is a button to enable advanced security. Enabling it will install Bitfinder’s other apps such as antivirus, web security and SMS control. Clueful is compatible with Android OS versions 2.2 and up. The app consumes 30MB while running.
Conclusion
Clueful app for Android provides necessary clues on the behavior of various apps in your Android phone. It scans and ranks installed apps with a unique privacy score so that you’ll know which app(s) is the troublemaker from inside. However, Clueful does not tell you what a troublemaker app is doing with the sensitive data in your phone. Verdict: An app that’ll give you a fair idea about the apps accessing your personal info in your phone. But it is a bit of a blind trail from then on.
Category: Free Android Apps, Free Android Tools
