Exodus

Exodus is the Android app of Exodus Privacy, a French non-profit that analyses Android apps for trackers. It lists the apps on your phone and shows, for each one, the trackers and permissions found in it.

This site uses the same knowledge: our own tracker scan matches code against Exodus Privacy’s tracker signatures.

How it works

• The app doesn’t analyse anything on your phone. It fetches the reports Exodus Privacy has already produced and shows them app by app.
• To do that, it sends the list of your installed apps to Exodus Privacy’s servers. The app says this contains no personal information.
• Exodus analyses apps from Google Play and F-Droid. Apps from anywhere else, or blocked by region or other restrictions, can’t be covered, and the app says so when a report is missing or is for a different version than yours.

How to read the results

Exodus Privacy finds trackers by static analysis: it compares the class names inside an APK with its list of trackers. As its FAQ puts it, that is not proof the trackers are active. The code being in the app doesn’t tell you when it runs or what it sends, the same caution we use on our own pages.

Good to know

• IzzyOnDroid flags it TetheredNet: the app is only useful with the Exodus service behind it.
• Version 3.3.2 is from July 2024. No release has followed since, but the reports themselves keep coming from Exodus Privacy’s platform.
• This file is the developer’s own build, delivered through IzzyOnDroid. Google Play has the same app from Exodus Privacy.
• The 7.3 MB file runs on ARM and x86, 32- and 64-bit, needs Android 6.0 or later, and declares five permissions.

Flagged by IzzyOnDroid:

• TetheredNet: Uses a network service run by the developer.

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).