3 Best Security Apps for Android

Secure your smartphone or tablet with amazing new Android apps. We pick three of the most useful free security apps.

#1. AirCover

Min requirements: Android 2.1+
File size: 5.9MB



AirCover provides great all-round security, protecting your phone from viruses and malicious apps, helping you maintain your privacy settings, backing up your information to the cloud and even tracking the location of your famHy members. It can also be used to perform system tweaks to make your phone run faster and improve battery life.

#2. Bitdetender Power Tune-Up

Min requirements: Android 2.2+
File size: 1.7MB



This app [Bitdetender Power Tune-Up] is designed to optimise your phone’s settings to make it faster and more efficient. You data usage, increase can manage your your battery life by stopping processes that use a lot of memory, and boost storage by clearing your phone’s cache and temporary files using its Device Clean-Up tool. You can also set up data thresholds and alerts for when you get close to your limit.

#3. Apptro

Min requirements: Android 2.2+
File size: 1.2 MB



Apptro helps you discover new apps, and monitor the data usage and potential costs of any you already have installed. You can track how much battery and data each individual app uses and see, at a glance, any additional charges incurred. This is especially useful in identifying malicious apps. Apptro also provides app recommendations based on your existing downloads.