Shizuku Apps: 15 Open-Source Tools, Each Checked for the Shizuku API (2026)

Shizuku is a small service that lets ordinary apps call Android’s system APIs with the same rights as ADB, the developer debugging bridge. You start it once, either over wireless debugging on Android 11 and later or with root. After that, any app that supports Shizuku can do things that normally need a computer and a USB cable, and your phone doesn’t have to be rooted. Shizuku itself is on Google Play, and we host it too; our guide walks through starting it. Most of the apps that make use of it are not on Google Play.

Quick picks

• If you already use Shizuku for installs, Install with Options is the one you’ll use most.
• For a single, low-risk tweak, Private DNS Quick Toggle is the lightest.
• If you want the most control over the device, choose OwnDroid.
• To stop specific apps from going online without giving up your VPN, use FireWall Blocks in Shizuku mode.
• To keep apps from GitHub and other release pages updated, set Obtainium to install through Shizuku.
• For Google Play apps on a phone without the Play Store, use Aurora Store with its Shizuku installer.
• To remap buttons, or trigger actions with the screen off, use Key Mapper in Expert Mode.
• To type ADB commands without a computer, use aShell or aShell You, which can also reach other devices over OTG.
• To remove pre-installed apps without root, use Canta, and check its safety labels first.

How we picked these fifteen

“Supports Shizuku” is easy to claim, so we checked it. Each app on this list has the Shizuku client library, the rikka.shizuku classes, compiled into the APK we host. The class we found is listed on each app’s page. One app we started with, Androoster, didn’t have the library in its current build, so it isn’t here.

All fifteen are open source. Five are also on Google Play: Key Mapper, Canta, Material Files, Taskbar, and aShell, which is paid there. Each file was matched to the signing key its repository publishes for it: IzzyOnDroid for ten of them, F-Droid for Obtainium, Aurora Store, Key Mapper, Material Files and Taskbar.

At a glance

App	What it does with Shizuku	Needs	Size	Trackers found
Install with Options	Installs APKs with ADB-only options	Android 7.0+	13.1 MB	Bugsnag
Volume Manager	Sets volume per app	Android 13+	18.2 MB	None
OwnDroid	Device-owner and policy controls	Android 6.0+	3.4 MB	None
Private DNS Quick Toggle	Switches Private DNS from a tile	Android 9+	4.3 MB	None
FireWall Blocks	Blocks internet per app without taking the VPN slot	Android 11+	12.7 MB	None
Florid	F-Droid client (use not described)	Android 7.0+	28.5 MB	None
Obtainium	Installs apps and updates from developers’ release pages	Android 8.0+	26.1 MB	None
Aurora Store	Installs apps and updates from Google Play	Android 6.0+	9.4 MB	None
Key Mapper	Sends key events and runs its Expert Mode for remapping buttons	Android 8.0+	15.0 MB	None
aShell You	Runs ADB shell commands on the phone itself	Android 9+	11.5 MB	None
Canta	Uninstalls pre-installed apps for your user	Android 9+	5.0 MB	None
Material Files	Runs its file service with ADB rights instead of root	Android 6.0+	10.9 MB	None
Droid-ify	Installs updates from F-Droid repositories without prompts	Android 6.0+	6.0 MB	None
aShell	The original local ADB shell	Android 7.0+	2.2 MB	None
Taskbar	Grants itself one permission for its desktop mode	Android 5.0+	2.8 MB	None

Install with Options

This installer offers the options you would otherwise get from adb install: installing test-only apps, getting past Android 14’s block on apps built for old Android versions, downgrading some packages, installing split APKs and installing several apps in one go. On Android 11 and later all of it works on the phone itself. The APK also bundles libsu, a root-shell library, which suggests it can work through root as well.

One thing the store listing doesn’t mention: the package contains the Bugsnag crash-reporting SDK, which is on the Exodus tracker list. IzzyOnDroid hasn’t flagged the app for tracking. Bugsnag is usually used to send crash reports, but the code being present doesn’t tell us when it runs or what it sends.

Volume Manager

Sets the volume of each app separately, so a game can stay quiet while a podcast plays at full volume. It can replace the system volume popup, open from the accessibility button, or be used from its own screen. It needs Android 13 or later and is still at version 0.2. It declares only four permissions. One of them, WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, is the kind that only Shizuku or ADB can grant.

OwnDroid

A device policy controller: the enterprise-management layer of Android, turned on your own phone. Once it is set up as device owner, profile owner, a work profile or through Dhizuku, it can disable the camera or screenshots, suspend or hide apps, block uninstalls, manage Wi-Fi networks, and create or switch users. It is the most powerful app on this list and also the easiest to misconfigure, so read its documentation before activating device-owner mode. Location and Wi-Fi permissions are in its manifest, most likely for the Wi-Fi management features, since Android requires location access to scan for networks. At 3.4 MB it is also the smallest download here.

Private DNS Quick Toggle

Adds a Quick Settings tile that switches Android’s Private DNS between providers, which is handy for turning an ad-blocking DNS on and off with one tap. The app declares only three permissions. The one that matters, WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, has to be granted through Shizuku or manually over ADB. It needs Android 9 or later, the version that introduced Private DNS.

FireWall Blocks

A per-app firewall with two modes. In Shizuku mode, which the developer recommends, rules are applied through Shizuku and the app doesn’t need to keep running. The catch is that after a reboot you start Shizuku, then open the app once to re-apply the rules. In VPN mode it uses Android’s local VPN slot instead, which means no setup, plus a live monitor of which apps are connecting, but you can’t run another VPN at the same time. You can use both modes together. It declares ten permissions, and only notifications asks first.

Florid

A redesigned client for browsing and installing apps from F-Droid and from other repositories you add. The Shizuku library is in the APK, but the project doesn’t say what it uses it for, so we won’t guess. Our scan found no known tracker SDKs, but since version 1.3.0 the app sends a daily usage ping of its own, a random installation ID and the app version, which you can switch off in the settings. It is also the largest app here and ships native code for 64-bit ARM only.

Obtainium

Obtainium keeps apps from outside the app stores up to date. You give it the address of an app’s release page, on GitHub for example, and it tells you about new versions and installs them. In its settings you can switch the installer to Dhizuku, Shizuku or Sui. With Shizuku or root it can also record Google Play as the source an app was installed from, presumably for apps that check where they came from. Our copy is the F-Droid build, which needs a 64-bit ARM phone.

Aurora Store

An open-source client for Google Play: it downloads free apps and their updates from Play without the Play Store app, so it also works on phones without Google services. Its settings list several install methods, and one of them is a Shizuku installer, which the app says needs Shizuku or Sui to be set up and permission granted. It is the only app here that depends on Google’s servers, through an API its developers reverse-engineered, so a change on Google’s side can break it.

Key Mapper

Remaps buttons, from the volume keys to gamepads, to more than 100 actions. With Shizuku it can send key events without switching to its own keyboard and grant itself the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission without a computer. Shizuku can also start its Expert Mode, which remaps buttons through the ADB shell so that triggers work even with the screen off. The build we host is F-Droid’s FOSS one, without the Play version’s floating buttons and paid triggers.

aShell You

A terminal for ADB commands on the phone itself. Through Shizuku it runs shell commands with ADB’s rights, including long-running ones such as logcat or top, and keeps bookmarks for the commands you use most. It can also send commands to another Android device over an OTG cable or wireless debugging.

Canta

Removes apps your phone maker pre-installed, a job that otherwise needs root or a computer running ADB. Through Shizuku it uninstalls them for your user only, so their APKs stay on the phone and can be restored. Labels from the Universal Debloat List mark which apps are unsafe to remove; removing a critical one can cause a bootloop.

Material Files

A full open-source file manager, with archives and FTP, SFTP, SMB and WebDAV shares. Version 1.7.5 added Shizuku support: the file service that normally needs root can run through Shizuku instead, with ADB-level rights.

Droid-ify

An F-Droid client that can install through Shizuku as one of its install methods. In its source code, the Shizuku installer runs Android’s pm package command, so updates from F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid and your own repositories can install without a confirmation for each app.

aShell

The original local ADB shell for Shizuku, and the app aShell You grew out of. It comes with examples of common ADB commands, bookmarks, a command history and a file manager for folders that need ADB’s rights. On Google Play it is a paid app; the developer’s build here is free.

Taskbar

A start menu and a tray of recent apps that sit on top of whatever you are doing, plus a desktop mode for when the device drives an external display. Shizuku is optional here. Some of the desktop-mode settings need the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission, which the app otherwise asks you to grant with an adb command from a computer. In the source code, when Shizuku is running, Taskbar uses it to grant itself that one permission, and that is all it uses Shizuku for.