10 Best Android Apps to Protect Your Data

A-Techie | Friday, August 03, 2012 | 0 comments

Smartphones have totally revolutionized the mobile phone industry. Nowadays, mobile phones are not only used for calling or texting, but also for taking photos, listening to music, making videos, taking notes, and accessing the internet etc. Thus these smartphone have a lot of personal data of the user from phone numbers and contacts to text messages, photos/videos, notes or other such personal information. This data definitely needs to be protected; otherwise any person can use it to harm you in any way. Your phone is never safe from malicious programs, theft or loss; so it is advisable to make it as safe and protected as possible. Fortunately, many different types of apps are present out there which can help you protect the data in your phone. So today, we have a list of 10 Awesome Android Apps to Protect Your Data. This list includes many different types of apps, from antimalware apps to antitheft apps. These are must have apps to make sure that even if you lose your phone your personal data will be safe. Check this lit out and pick the apps you like the best. Here goes the list:



It is one of the most popular and widely used mobile security apps. It offers basic smartphone protection for free, but you can always get the paid version to get some additional features. It has the ability of scanning your phone for malicious apps, backing up and restoring your data, and tracking your lost phone. The paid version offers its Secure Browsing feature. This feature would keep you safe while surfing the web by keeping you away from malicious sites.



Norton needs no introduction, as it is one of the most famous and widely used antimalware and antivirus program for PCs. They now have an app: Norton Mobile Security Lite, and this app is as amazing as their PC version. This app boasts both, the antitheft and the antivirus features. If you upgrade to the paid version, you can also get the ability of blocking unwanted calls or text messages, and the fraudulent sites when surfing the Web. This upgrade costs $33/year.



This one is a really cool app that lets you hide and protect your data. This app helps in hiding your important data in a locked-down section of the smartphone. Logging in to the app is only possible by using a secure PIN. After logging in, you have the ability of moving any file into the locked folder on. You can get a free trial or the paid version for $16.



This is an awesome app that disguises itself as an Audio Manager app which you can use for turning volume up and down. But when you press on the title for some time, the actual Hide It Pro app will be launched. This app allows hiding selected photos, videos and audio recordings etc from your phone’s stock gallery. Password protecting this data is also possible.



This app not only protects your phone from malware, but also allows backing up your contacts so that recovering them on some other device is possible. It can also be used for uninstalling useless apps or optimizing your phone to run smoothly. If you are one of those people who have a really slow phone and have a lot of apps, then this app will prove to be helpful for you.  



This app allows hiding photos, videos, contacts, text messages, Locking Apps or hiding any other file from people by using encryption. It can hide any type of file, even PDFs and other documents etc apart from photos, videos, audio etc.



Plan B is an app that will come in handy in case your phone is lost before you had the chance of installing any security software. You can install this app remotely from Lookout. After having remotely installed this app through the Web-based Android Market, this app will come to life and would start emailing you your phone’s most probable location.



This app offers protection of your phone’s gallery from other people around you. This app allows password protecting your photos or Video Files. It offers pincode/text/pattern authentication while unlocking photos and protected videos. It is a must have app for everyone, so that people would not be able to view your personal photos/videos without your permission.



KeepSafe is a really cool app which does exactly what its name says: it keeps safe your photos. It is 
one of the most popular apps of its kind. It allows hiding pictures/videos on your phone. It lets you enter a PIN for locking all the pictures and then also hides them from the phone gallery so that no one except you will be able to access the photos.



This one is also a cool and free app for hiding unlimited number of photos / videos from your phone gallery. It allows password protection of the photos/video is also possible, apart from hiding them. It is a really nice app and is highly recommended to people who wish to protect their photos.

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