3 Best Apps to Catch Someone Snooping in Your Android Phone

We have heard that usually skilled hackers or cybercriminals can easily snoop on Android smartphones.

That's why Google is regularly updating and adding new features to Android security and privacy. While this provides protection from hackers or cybercriminals, sometimes people close to you can snoop on your phone.

Intruding into a person's private life through phone snooping is abhorrent, but it is possible.

So let's see where Android can be snooped by people close to you:

• In own house
• At your friend's or neighbor's house
• At work
• At the party
• Chat time

So what to do? Android has made our daily life easier in many ways, also solving many complex problems quite smartly. So Android has excellent solutions to prevent snooping.

Think, what would it be like if you got a notification in your email box as soon as someone intruded your phone or entered a wrong password?

Or how about if someone snooping on your phone automatically captures their picture like hidden eye and sends to your email with a stealth photo?

Isn't that great?

The following 3 applications tell if someone tried to unlock your android phone and the password is wrong

1.Lockwatch - Thief Catcher (Free/Premium)

Features in FREE Version:

• Sending alert email when someone tries to unlock your device with the wrong code.
• Setting the number of unlock attempts to send email after incorrect attempts.
• Showing map location with latitude and longitude of your phone.

Features in PREMIUM Version:

• Detecting SIM card changes and mailing you when a different SIM card is inserted.
• Sending email when powered on, If the device was powered off without being unlocked first.
• In free version, it takes a photo but premium provides get extra features of it. It allows taking multiple photos with a one second delay between each photo.
• Another amazing feature is, it allows recording sound clip 20 seconds of sound using the microphone and sends to email.

How to setup LockWatch Application

1. First download and install the app from Google Playstore.
2. Open the application after completing installation.
3. Configure settings and set up your email to get notification. You may need to verify your email.

Data safety of Lockwatch - Thief Catcher

Data shared with third parties?	No
Data collected?	No
Is data encrypted in transit?	Yes
Can data be deleted?	No

Download and Install

2.Catch Phone Intruder (Free/Premium)

This Android security app from the developers of Foxbyte Code will help you detect intruders instantly.

If someone tries to unlock your phone, this app takes a selfie through the hidden camera and saves it.

This app is very effective in detecting people trying to access or unlock your phone without your permission But to get all the features you need to purchase the premium package.

Features in FREE Version:

• Capturing intruders photo.
• Storing captured photos in application so that you can check later yourself.

Features in PREMIUM Version:

• It provides Real-Time Protection to avoid bypassing Intruder Capture.
• Memory Management feature enables to capture unlimited intruders.
• Sending email when an intruder was detected.

How to setup Catch Phone Intruder Application

1. First download and install the app from Google Playstore.
2. Open the application after completing installation.
3. Turn on Device Administration
4. Configure settings and set up your email to get notification. You may need to verify your email.

Data safety of Catch Phone Intruder

Data shared with third parties?	No
Data collected?	Yes
Is data encrypted in transit?	Yes
Can data be deleted?	Yes

Download and Install

3.CrookCatcher - Anti Theft (Free/Premium)

The specialty of CrookCatcher app is that this app has all the features for free which other apps offer in premium package.

You can easily capture photos of snoopers using this app for free. The premium version has some additional useful features in this app.

Features in FREE Version:

• Capturing intruders photo.
• Sending alert email when someone tries to unlock your device with the wrong code.
• Setting the number of unlock attempts to send email after incorrect attempts.
• Showing map location with latitude and longitude of your phone.
• Device Notification

Features in PREMIUM Version:

• Detecting Sim Change Receive an informative email when a new sim card is inserted.
• Detecting Break-in: It takes a photo when the crook guesses the right password after having failed.
• Retry email: If disconnected from the internet, it ensures postpone emails until back online.
• Hiding notification from intruders etc.

How to setup CrookCatcher Application

1. First download and install the app from Google Playstore.
2. Open the application after completing installation.
3. Turn on Device Administration
4. Configure settings and set up your email to get notification. You may need to verify your email.

Data safety of CrookCatcher - Anti Theft

Data shared with third parties?	No
Data collected?	No
Is data encrypted in transit?	Not provided
Can data be deleted?	Not provided

Download and Install