APK Extractor

Vadhod APK Extractor copies the APK files of the apps installed on your phone, so you can keep a backup, move an app to another device or check a file yourself. Its README: “A beautiful, privacy-first tool to extract and back up the APK of any app on your device — completely offline.” It is a young project by a single developer, Parjanya Gala, started in June 2026.

Split APKs

Many apps from Google Play are no longer one file. As the README explains: “Modern Android apps ship as split APKs — a base APK plus per-density, per-language and per-ABI splits. Most extractors quietly hand you the base APK alone, and the backup won’t reinstall.” This app saves such apps as one .apks archive with the base and every split, without re-signing anything, and saves single-file apps as a plain .apk. In the settings you can switch the default to the base APK alone.

What it does

• App list in System and User tabs, with search and sorting by name, size, install date or last update.
• Extract one app or many, with progress for each app and for the whole batch.
• App details: version, size, minimum and target Android version, install and update dates, the signing certificate’s SHA-256 and a list of the files in the APK.
• Share an extracted APK, or export an app’s icon as a PNG.
• Files are saved through Android’s folder picker, so the app needs no storage permission.

Defaults worth knowing

From the code of this version: split apps are bundled into .apks, the list is sorted by name, the theme follows your phone’s, and nothing is saved until you choose a folder.

What goes online

Nothing. The app has no internet permission; the README: “No INTERNET permission, no networking code, no SDKs that phone home.” The project even has a test that fails if the permission is ever added. It also opts out of Android’s own backup.

About this file

• This is the developer’s own build of version 1.0.2, from 25 August 2026, distributed by F-Droid, which builds it from source and publishes the developer’s file when its own build matches. It is byte for byte the APK on the project’s GitHub release, signed with the developer’s key. The README: “The GitHub APK and the Play Store APK are signed with different keys … Pick one source and stay with it, or uninstall first when switching.”
• The 3.2 MB file runs on Android 10 and later, on ARM and x86, 32- and 64-bit, and declares 2 permissions: seeing all installed apps, which is what the app is for, and one AndroidX adds for internal use.
• It is licensed under the GPL-3.0 or later.
• The screenshots are the project’s own, from F-Droid.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).