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Insular

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Sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your personal data (fork of Island with closed source parts removed).

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • International

Platforms

  • Android
  • Android Tablet
  • F-Droid
5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Multiple Account support
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Sandbox
  4.  Multi Account Switching

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Insular information

  • Developed by

    Secure System
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Insular, and it has gotten 13 likes

Insular was added to AlternativeTo by bigbigboy on Apr 21, 2021 and this page was last updated Sep 9, 2022.

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Jun 29, 2022
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I use it on a de-Googled device for non-privacy respecting apps that I still need/want access to on my phone.

What is Insular?

“Insular” is a sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your personal data outside the sandbox (including call logs, contacts, photos and etc) even if related permissions are granted. Device-bound data (SMS, IMEI and etc) is still accessible.

Isolated apps can be frozen on demand, with their launcher icons hidden and their background behaviors completely blocked.

Insular is a fully free and open source fork of Island icon Island with the closed source parts removed.

How does it work

Insular takes advantage of the “managed profile” feature on Android 5.0+, which is also the base of “Android for Work”, to create an isolated sandbox for apps with their data.

Apps needs to be cloned in Insular first. Afterwards, the clone can run parallel aside from the original one (even with different accounts signed-in). It can be frozen on demand by Insular. (NO ROOT REQUIRED)