What Exodus Privacy does

εxodus - the Privacy Auditing Platform for Android Applications

εxodus analyses Android applications. It looks for embedded trackers and lists them. A tracker is a piece of software meant to collect data about you or what you do. In a way, εxodus reports are a way of knowing what really are the ingredients of the cake you are eating. εxodus does not decompile applications, its analysis technique is entirely legal.

The εxodus website lets you:

check an Android application report using the search engine

analyse a new Android application by requesting analysis

go further, providing a list of tools and things you can do to improve your privacy on your smartphone

Overview of a report

Each report will tell you what trackers are embedded into the application. By clicking on a tracker’s name, you will be taken to a page showing more details on this tracker as well as the list of applications using it. If the tracker description is empty or inaccurate, please feel free to refer to the ETIP project.

Overview of the list of detected trackers

A report will also give you the list of permissions the application requests to operate on your smartphone. Some of these permissions are tagged as dangerous. This means that from Google’s point of view, the application can do bad things using this permission. εxodus uses the Google permission classification.

Overview of the list of permissions

If you are curious or want to help us to improve εxodus, you can file issues or submit improvements on our GitHub project .

εxodus Android Application

Our application is designed to list the applications already installed on your mobile phone (both from Google Play or F-Droid and report the trackers embedded in each application.

The application is available on F-Droid and Google Play.

Overview 1 of the εxodus Android application - List of installed applications Overview 2 of the εxodus Android application - Tracker details for an application

The application does not analyse the applications installed directly on your smartphone, instead it retrieves the reports already available on the εxodus platform. Of course, the εxodus application itself does not contain any trackers.

Outreach: Learn More

The main goal of Exodus Privacy is to raise awareness of the extent of tracking by and in mobile applications. To this end, we have created videos explaining how and why tracking massively occurs on smartphones. You can watch these videos on 2 platforms:

You can also find us on 3 social networks: