Android · by AppLabs
See what your apps are really talking to.
PingBill watches one app while you use it, then hands you the bill: a plain-English receipt of every outside company it contacted, what those companies do, and how often. Everything is analysed on your phone.
Coming soon to Google Play
A receipt for your apps
Sample from PingBill's demo mode
“In 20 minutes, Flashlight Pro contacted 14 companies. 6 were ad networks.” Flashlight Pro is a fictional app from PingBill's demo mode; the numbers are contacts (connections and lookups).
How it works
Pick an app
Choose any app with a launcher icon, and how long to watch: 5, 15 or 30 minutes, or until you stop.
Use it as usual
PingBill notes which servers that one app contacts. A notification shows the session, with a Stop button.
Get the receipt
Every company, grouped by what it does: ads, analytics, social, crash reporting. Domains PingBill doesn't know are listed as unknown, never guessed.
Also in PingBill
- History and comparisons: see how an app changes from one session to the next.
- Share cards: a receipt as an image, square or story-sized.
- Demo mode: try everything with sample apps first, no permission needed.
PingBill Pro
Tracker blocking
Known ad and analytics trackers, including ones disguised under the app's own domain, are blocked for the app you monitor during a session.
More history and detail
Unlimited receipts (instead of the latest 10), charts of every session of an app, and every observed domain as a spreadsheet.
Yearly (renews until you cancel) or Lifetime (pay once), through Google Play.
Private by design
- PingBill uses Android's VPN feature on your phone. Only the app you choose goes through it, only during a session, and traffic goes straight to its destination, never to us.
- It reads only metadata: the names an app looks up and the servers it connects to. Never message or page contents, never anything inside encrypted connections. No certificates, no decryption.
- No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking.
- Nothing is sent to AppLabs unless you choose to share a receipt, and you see exactly what's sent first.
Honest about its limits
PingBill shows what it observed during a session. It can't see connections an app opened before the session, apps that encrypt their own lookups only show up by server name, and blocking can't stop trackers reached by hard-coded address or not in its database. Android allows one VPN at a time, so another VPN app pauses while a session runs. Company names come from εxodus Privacy's tracker list and a small AppLabs list.
Shared receipts become public data
Receipts people choose to share are combined into open data about which companies Android apps contact, published once enough different phones agree. Data & API