With Greenify, your device can run almost as smoothly and lastingly as it did the first day you had it! Never should your phone or tablet become slower and battery hungrier after lots of apps installed.
"Aggressive Doze" and "Doze on the Go" to maximize the battery saving on Android 6+, even without root! (details explained in settings)
You can also use this one for free if you use Google Play Pass.Featured as Lifehacker's Top 1 Utility in 2013 Best Android Apps (), Android Authority's Top 3 Best Root Apps (). Do beware, though, because the learning curve is rather steep. It's a great application, especially for tinkerers and those who have unusual needs for their smartphones. It does add some functionality if you have it, though. Many of the functions don't need root permissions. It's a vague description but an accurate one because the only limit is your imagination. This powerful application can make your phone do pretty much anything you want. Next on our list is a very useful root app called Tasker. Synergy is another excellent theming app like this one that works a little better for newer Samsung phones. You can also find support for this on XDA-Developers, Reddit, GitHub, Google+, and even Telegram. Some themes cost money, but there is a healthy selection of free options as well. Apply the theme and that's all she wrote, so to speak. Then you seek out Substratum themes online or the Google Play Store. It should work best on stock Nougat, stock Oreo, Samsung devices with Nougat, and a few other devices and Android versions. However, it works really well on the ones that it supports. It's not available on every rooted Android smartphone. Substratum is a theming engine for Android. Permission Ruler does much the same thing but in a different way so we thought you'd appreciate having multiple options here. Thus, you can use every app on your phone with its maximum permissions but ensure that none of the permissions are permanently enabled. Each time an app asks for permissions, you can enable it and then enable Bouncer to disable the permission after a few minutes. It lets you manage your permissions with a bit more granularity than stock Android without being overly complicated. However, it's the kind of app we think root users would like. It's definitely one of the most popular root apps.īouncer isn't technically a root app. It's not available on the Google Play Store but there is an official link from ABP that you can use by clicking the button above. This one is configurable so that some unobtrusive ads get through.
Root users swear by this one We bloggers don't like it, but we've accepted that people really do find this app useful. As you may have guessed, it removes ads from the device.
Use those at your own risk.ĪdBlock Plus is a free, open source app.
In addition, some of these apps are not available in the Google Play Store.
We wish him all of the best in his future endeavors. Here are the best root apps for Android! We also left Chainfire's apps off of the list because, well, he's throwing in the towel. However, there are still those who prefer the root experience and there are still plenty of excellent root apps that improve functionality and do stuff that unrooted devices can't do. Also, apps like Netflix, Pokemon Go, and Google Pay don't work on rooted devices without some fun hacks for some dumb reason. Stock Android grew up quite a bit and root is simply less appealing than it once was. It's true that rooting your device is far less popular than the good old days.