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Shelter Alternatives

Shelter

Shelter is a Free and Open-Source (FOSS) app that leverages the “Work Profile” feature of Android to provide an isolated space that you can install or clone apps into.

Shelter comes with absolutely no advertisement / statistics / tracking SDKs bundled with it. All source code is available in at https://git.angry.im/PeterCxy/Shelter or mirror https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter and the sources are licensed under WTFPL.

This app depends on your Android system’s implementation of Work Profile. Some vendor / custom ROMs may have a broken implementation that may cause crashes and even bricking of your device. One such example is MIUI from Xiaomi. I currently provide no support for such ROMs because I personally do not own any of these devices. If you are running Shelter on these ROMs, you are on your own. If any developer out there own these devices and could make Shelter run on these ROMs, please send pull requests and I’ll be happy to merge them.

Features / Use Cases
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- Run apps inside the isolated profile so they cannot access your data outside the profile
- “Freeze” (disable) background-heavy or seldom-used apps when you don’t need them. This is especially true if you use apps from "some company".
- Clone apps to use two accounts on one device

Caveats
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Shelter is not a full sandbox implementation. It cannot protect you from:

- Security bugs of the Android system or Linux kernel
- Backdoors installed in your Android system (so please use an open-source ROM if you are concerned about this)
- Backdoors installed into the firmwares (no way to work around this)
- Any other bugs or limitations imposed by the Android system.

Also, Shelter cannot create more than 1 work profile on one Android device, and cannot co-exist with any other apps that manages a Work Profile. This is due to the limitations of the Android system, and I can do nothing about this.

Best Shelter Alternatives

Looking for some programs similar to Shelter? Here are the top-recommended programs we found. Let's take a look if there's anything out there that helps you on whatever platform you're using.

App Cloner

App Cloner

FreemiumAndroidAndroid Tablet

App Cloner is a specialized tool that lets you create and install copies of your existing Android apps so you can do things like utilize multiple logins at various apps...

Features:

  • Multi Account Switching
  • Multiple Account support
Parallel Space

Parallel Space

FreemiumAndroidAndroid Tablet

Parallel Space lets you clone and run multiple accounts of the same app simultaneously, and use themes to style your unique space.

Features:

  • Customizable
  • Multi Account Switching
  • Multiple Account support
island

island

FreeOpen SourceAndroid

What is “Island” “Island” is a sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your personal data outside the sandbox (including call logs...

AppClone

AppClone

FreemiumAndroidAndroid Tablet

Clone apps and games so you have two choices; one for secure use and another for public.

Features:

  • Multi Account Switching
  • Multiple Account support

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