Clueful is a new application for the iOS platform, and with its help you can find out part of how the applications installed in your iDevices work. The application was designed by those from BitDefender Antivirus and it monitors the traffic made by applications open in the background, but also analyzes the way they interact with iOS. Clueful tells you if the applications open in the background monitor your activity using special tracking codes, if they are able to display advertisements, if they can log information about locations, if they can affect battery autonomy by the way they work, plus many others.
Clueful identifies malicious apps on your iPhone. It looks at what applications are currently running in memory and it retrieves audit information from the Clueful Cloud. Most apps are not malicious. They're just careless with your data. Take a look under the hood. Be curious! Explore and analyze clues about your apps, including your favorite ones.
There's apps that:
- track your location
- can read and make use of your address book
– track usage via Flurry (or other) analytics networks and display ads
– handle your credentials in a sloppy way (think unencrypted over the web)
- request access to your Facebook/Twitter/Google credentials
– use telemetry engines that can aggregate behavior data across many applications and even link them to a real identity (via Facebook auth etc.)
– needlessly keep GPS or audio services on intensively, although they don't need to, which may quickly drain your phone's battery.
The application seems to monitor only applications open in the background and seems to analyze them with the help of a cloud-type system developed by BitDefender. Clueful seems to be a very good way to analyze how the applications installed in your iDevices work, and if you are interested in seeing what happens "behind closed doors", then you will have to pay 2.39€ to purchase the application of the from Bitdefender.
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Clueful
2.99
Description: Clueful is the only way to really understand apps, how they use your data and treat your privacy.
UPDATE VERSION
Regretfully, a small number of users reported app crashes. We found a few bugs affecting...
