Various tools for system maintenance

Root Keeper

2020-10-11

These tools should take care your rooted device stays rooted – even if you install a system update (e.g. via OTA).

mySU (Superuser for Android) (3.9@1,005) 5 2 LastUpdate: 2017-03-18 SuperUser & RootKeeper
Voodoo OTA RootKeeper (3.6@11) 0 LastUpdate: 2013-01-21

Root Checker

2020-10-11

Apps to check whether the rooting process was successful.

Root Checker (5@4) $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-24
Root/Super Su Checker Advanced FREE [Root] (4.7@17) Ǥ 15 6
Root Checker: with Terminal Emulator and SafetyNet (4.4@983) Ǥ 4 3
Root Checker Pro (4.4@389) Ǥ 4 2 LastUpdate: 2016-12-26
Root Checker (4.4@163) 2 2 LastUpdate: 2018-10-03
Simple Root Checker (4.4@26) Ǥ 7 2 LastUpdate: 2016-03-28
Root Checker (4.2@356,835) Ǥ 7 15 / Root Checker Pro (4.6@2,491; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 3 1
SU Root Checker (4.2@10,629) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-09-13
Root Verifier (4.2@2,146) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-03-26 Github
Root Checker N Info (4.2@34) 3 1 LastUpdate: 2015-04-08
Root Checker (4@31,326) Ǥ 6 5
Simple Root Checker (4@1,075) 1 3 LastUpdate: 2016-08-05
Root Checker (4@639) 4 2
Root Checker (3.9@7,141) Ǥ 4 3 LastUpdate: 2019-01-11
Root Checker (3.9@1,149) Ǥ 5 1 LastUpdate: 2018-01-30
Am I Rooted? (Root Checker) (3.9@202) 7 2 LastUpdate: 2017-09-20
Root Checker (3.9@113) Ǥ 4 1 LastUpdate: 2017-08-03
Root Validator (3.8@3,987) Ǥ 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-04-15 Github

With a rooted device, some apps refuse to work (mostly those using "protected" or "sensitive" material. If you still want to use those apps and keep your device rooted, you may wish to hide that fact. These apps help you with that. Also see Magisk, which provides both root and root hiding.

Hide Rooting Lite (2.1@2,078) 4 4 LastUpdate: 2016-09-09 / Hide Rooting Premium (3.4@81; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 3 1 LastUpdate: 2016-09-06
Entrust IdentityGuard Unblocker (0@0) 0 LastUpdate: 2017-05-11
ANRC (0@0) 2 LastUpdate: 2017-06-06 Github
Zuper (0@0) hide mock location, forbidden ads, root and more
RootCloak (OLD, SEE DESCRIPTION) (0@0) / RootCloak (with 5.x and 6.x support) (0@0; ~EUR 1.25) 1 LastUpdate: 2017-04-09 XDA inkl. Anleitung; Howto 3/2014; Video Howto 6/2014
unWatch (0@0) LastUpdate: 2015-09-01 Github
Good for Enterprise Disable Root Check (0@0) LastUpdate: 2014-11-07 Github; Hide root from the Good for enterprise client
SberbankUnroot (0@0) LastUpdate: 2016-03-03
No Device Check (0@0) LastUpdate: 2015-09-25 make Google think you run unmodified Android
Sudohide (0@0) LastUpdate: 2017-10-22
Surrogate (0@0) LastUpdate: 2017-04-15 Github; provides rules to directly hook into other apps, replacing their methods (e.g. root checking)
CYBER APPX (0@0) LastUpdate: 2018-09-25
SDW Hide Root (0@0) LastUpdate: 2018-02-16
MaxdomeXposed (0@0) LastUpdate: 2014-03-26 Maxdome trotz root nutzen

SuperUser

2020-10-11

Superuser (4.5@1,265) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-01-29 Github
DroSU (Superuser for Android) (4.3@482) 6 2 LastUpdate: 2017-03-26 SuperUser & RootKeeper
SuperSU (4.2@365) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-05-29 / SuperSU Pro (4.1@23,625; ~EUR 3.75) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-05-29
Superuser (4.2@22) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-04-14
Superuser(manage Root device) (4.1@1,308) 6 1 LastUpdate: 2017-03-12 SuperUser & RootKeeper
mySU (Superuser for Android) (3.9@1,005) 5 2 LastUpdate: 2017-03-18 SuperUser & RootKeeper
Superuser (3.9@69) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-11-01 / Superuser Elite (3.8@6,242; ~EUR 3.25) Ǥ 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2012-06-30
Superuser X Free [Root] (3.8@8,632) Ǥ 9 3 LastUpdate: 2018-09-08 / Superuser X Pro [Root] - 50% OFF (4.2@204; ~EUR 22.00) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-03-26

Magisk

2020-10-18

If you don't know what this is, please see Root for all: Magisk in the articles section.

Magisk Manager (4.6@3,095) 11 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Guide 9/2016 | 3/2017; Video Tutorial 3/2017 (~7min) | 6/2017 (~6min) | 9/2017 (~6min); Howto 8/2017; IzzyOnDroid 5/2018; XDA Home; Magisk Wiki; Installation & Troubleshooting Guide; Universal Systemless Interface
Unified Hosts Manager (4@140) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-01-28
Collection of Magisk Modules
10 Must-Have Magisk Modules (1/2020)

Busybox

2020-10-11

BusyBox is software that provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable file. (Wikipedia) Usually requires root.

BusyBox Installer Classic (4.5@71) Ǥ 9 4
BusyBox for Android (4.4@26,285) Ǥ 9 2 LastUpdate: 2018-05-10 Github
BusyBox X [Root] (4.4@9,282) Ǥ 10 3 LastUpdate: 2018-09-09 / BusyBox X Pro [Root] - 50% OFF (4.7@199; ~EUR 22.00) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-09-09
Droidbug BusyBox Advance FREE (4.4@70) Ǥ 6 5 LastUpdate: 2019-01-13
BusyBox (4.3@159,288) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / BusyBox Pro (4.4@8,370; ~EUR 2.75) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
BusyBox (4.2@5,294) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
BusyBox On Rails (4.2@3,566) Ǥ 5 1 LastUpdate: 2016-12-22
Busybox Checker (4.2@2,613) Ǥ 4 3 LastUpdate: 2016-09-29
Neo Busybox (4.2@207) 9 LastUpdate: 2015-02-25
Tinybox! A busybox replacement (4.1@210) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-11-10
EXA Busybox Installer (no root) (3.5@179) 5 1

Terminal Apps

2020-10-11

Command line to interact with the system, see Terminal Emulator.

RHazOS (5@1) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-08-03 Github
Another Term (4.8@8) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
Termux (4.5@80,136) 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / Termux:API (4.3@5,543) 19 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / Termux:Styling (4.6@453; ~EUR 2.00) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Repository for additional packages; Kurzvorstellung 1/2016; Anleitung 12/2019; includes apt to install a lot of packages like aapt, busybox, git, mc, python, rsync and more
Material Terminal (4.3@6,186) Ǥ 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-04-03 Video Demo 3/2015; Walk-Through 3/2015
ZShaolin GNU / Linux terminal (4.3@93; ~EUR 3.75) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-12-21 Intro 12/2013; Github; comes with a bunch of tools like vim, ffmpeg, lua, git …
TTerm (4.3@40) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-01-22
Terminal Emulator for Android (4.2@118,512) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-07-18 Github; Vorstellung 3/2014
Qute: Command Console & Terminal Emulator (4.2@4,485) Ǥ 12 2
Remote ADB Shell (4.1@374) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-01-14 connect to one Android device from another Android device
TermOne Plus - terminal emulator (4@166) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ GitLab
Terminal Emulator Free (3.9@1,208) Ǥ 10 3 LastUpdate: 2018-09-20
☆ AirTerm (floating terminal) (3.9@575) Ǥ 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-08-07
Terminal (3.5@114) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-02-15
Shell Terminal Emulator (3.3@2,729) 4 2 LastUpdate: 2019-02-18
Ping Net (3.3@7; ~EUR 4.25) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-06-27
NeoTerm (0@0) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-11-08 Github

Custom Recovery & Flashing

2020-10-13

ROM Toolbox Lite (4.6@36) Ǥ 26 5 LastUpdate: 2019-04-04 / ROM Toolbox Pro (3.8@25,592; ~EUR 6.00) Ǥ 25 5 LastUpdate: 2019-04-03
Lineage Downloader (4.4@18,225) Ǥ 11 5 / Lineage Downloader Premium (4.2@1,363; ~EUR 1.75) Ǥ 10 3
CyanDelta Updater (4.4@9,751) Ǥ 6 4 LastUpdate: 2017-02-13 LineageOS, Paranoid, OmniROM
MultiROM Manager (4.4@8,598) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-06-10 Github
Auto Flasher ROM flash utility (4.3@1,846) Ǥ 6 2 LastUpdate: 2017-03-24
ROM Installer (4.2@42,851) Ǥ 11 3 LastUpdate: 2018-12-09 Review 10/2013
[ROOT] Rashr - Flash Tool (4.2@29,931) Ǥ 6 2 LastUpdate: 2017-10-25 Video Demo 12/2014; Intro 12/2014 | 4/2015; Github
Flasher (4.2@93) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
ZipInstaller (4.2@63; ~EUR 1.25) Ǥ 10 1 LastUpdate: 2014-02-25
ROM Manager (4.1@240,047) Ǥ 13 2 LastUpdate: 2018-10-30 Anleitung 4/2014; Video Howto 9/2014
Flashify (for root users) (4@41,773) Ǥ 7 2 LastUpdate: 2015-12-12 Video Howto 6/2014; maintains your recovery partition
TWRP Manager (Requires ROOT) (3.9@34,504) Ǥ 11 2 LastUpdate: 2017-07-02 Video Review 12/2013; Live Nandroid Backup for TWRP
Official TWRP App (3.9@31,793) Ǥ 14 1 Intro 12/2016
ZIPme (3.9@4,952) Ǥ 5 1 LastUpdate: 2017-04-11 create update ZIP packages to install in recovery
[ROOT] CRAB - Custom Recovery Auto Backup (3.9@24) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-10-22
Stock Rom Downloader (3.7@1,381) Ǥ 13 3 LastUpdate: 2016-07-18 find custom ROMs and ZIPs
[root] FlashFire (3.1@7,413) Ǥ 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-09-21
DD GUI (0@0) $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; GUI for the good-old dd tool
Vanced Manager (0@0) Ǥ 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; installs Vanced & microG

init.d

2020-10-16

init.d scripts support (3.7@386) Ǥ 8 3 select a folder to place scripts which shall run at boot time
Boot Shell [ROOT] (3.6@248) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-08-11 / Boot Shell Pro (4.2@16; ~EUR 1.00) $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-03-20 run shell commands at boot
Run Userinit (0@0) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-08-25
Init.d Light (0@0) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-12-24 Github

Sandbox (isolate) apps

2020-10-20

Shelter (4.2@574) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Vorstellung 9/2018 | 1/2019; Vorstellung & Howto 7/2019; Intro 9/2019; FOSS alternative to Island
Appcloner-clone app & double or multiple accounts (3.5@502) Ǥ 98 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / Parallel App - dual space&multiple accounts clone (3.7@171) Ǥ 15 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / Dual App - Dual Space Multiple Accounts App Cloner (3@206) Ǥ 15 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ not "sandboxing", but allows multiple instances of an app by cloning and re-installing with different package names; random Android ID, IMEI, IMSI & more at runtime
Island (0@0) Ǥ 19 3 Vorstellung 3/2018; XDA; like Greenify, but more: freeze, isolate (sandbox) apps, clone (for parallel usage), hide …
Insular (0@0) 18 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ GitLab; FOSS variant of Island

Run Linux on Android

2020-10-20

UserLAnd (4.5@3,080) Ǥ 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; run GNU/Linux on Android (no root required)
AnLinux : Run Linux On Android Without Root Access (4@1,570) 3 2 Github
Linux Deploy (3.8@14,764) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Install and run GNU/Linux on Android
dogeland (0@0) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Install and run GNU/Linux on Android

SafetyNet

2020-10-12

Safety Net Test App (4.5@50) Ǥ 7 2 LastUpdate: 2017-02-14 find out whether your device passes the SafetyNet test
SafetyNet Test (4.3@987) Ǥ 5 3 LastUpdate: 2018-10-03 find out whether your device passes the SafetyNet test
SafetyNet Playground (4.2@48) 1 1 LastUpdate: 2016-11-22 find out whether your device passes the SafetyNet test
SafetyNet Helper Sample (4@840) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; find out whether your device passes the SafetyNet test

Other tools

2020-10-12

[ROOT] KTweak — Universal Kernel Tweaks (4.8@79) 3 Github
FDE.AI Pro [ROOT] + FPS meter (4.7@1,401; ~EUR 3.75) Ǥ 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ OS/Kernel optimizer
Bash Shell X [Root] (4.5@1,943) Ǥ 10 3 LastUpdate: 2018-09-09 installs GNU bash 4.2;
DontKillMyApp ✌️ Make apps work (4.5@964) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; benchmark (how aggressively is your phone killing background apps) and more
Prevent Running (4.5@673) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ prevent force-stopped apps from auto-restarting
[ROOT] Sysctl GUI - Change kernel parameters (4.5@24) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
[root] LiveBoot (4.2@6,316) Ǥ 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Brevent (4.1@7,956) Ǥ 13 1 Github; prevent apps from auto-(re)starting; no root required
Root ToolCase (4.1@963) Ǥ 14 5 LastUpdate: 2018-12-07
Timezone Updater (4@118) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
Root Essentials (3.9@8,918) Ǥ 15 3 LastUpdate: 2017-10-28
Power App | Simple Power Menu [Root only] (3.8@45) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; power options menu (reboot, recovery etc.)
Simple Reboot (only for rooted devices) (3.6@4,824) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; boot menu (requires root)
Bash (3.3@7) 5 2 LastUpdate: 2017-03-20
Magic (0@0) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; file type guesser
PSAUX (0@0) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; task manager and automated background service killer
SELinuxModeChanger (0@0) 1 LastUpdate: 2018-04-10 Github; Set SELinux mode on boot
BackgroundRestrictor (0@0) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-11-03 Github; restrict apps from running in background
Content Provider Helper (0@0) 14 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-05-14 Github; find available content provider URIs; add & delete your own
Network Monitored Blocker (KitKat) (0@0) LastUpdate: 2015-02-14 Github; get rid of the "network may be monitored" message triggered by adding a CA cert to the key store in KitKat
MinMinHide (0@0) LastUpdate: 2015-03-03 Github; hide apps from other apps (not only from app-drawers)

Further Readings:

rooting tag-wiki at Android.SE including a rooting index with hints for specific devices
Magisk for "systemless modding" (incl. root); also see this guide at AndroidPolice
Ist Rooten ein Sicherheitsrisiko bzw. gefährlich? (10/2018)
Was ist Rooten und Jailbreak? (5/2016 - 10/2019)
5 reasons you should learn how to root your phone today (and how to do it) (2/2015)
CF-Auto-Root – So rootet man Samsung, Motorola & Nexus Geräte (2/2015)
How to root Android easily without PC (6/2014)
Towelroot rootet praktisch alle Android-Phones / Towelroot knackt Android in Sekunden (6/2014)

2020-10-24

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