Some android custom skins come with so many unnecessary bloatwares, some of them eat up your data and some of them do even worse by invading your privacy.
NetGuard comes to the rescue.
It allows you to block access to any android application, including the system ones.
For some applications it's could be bit risky to use them through WiFi, with NetGuard you can restrict data individually with Wi-Fi and/or mobile connection.
It doesn't require rooting your device either.
Using it will help you in several ways:
1) Save your data I recently bought a miui based phone, and the time when I enable my data, my half of daily data usage got wiped out in almost half an hour. When I checked data usage, most of it was consumed by bloatwares.
After using NetGuard, it was tonned down significantly.
2) Save Battery The less data requests sent/received, less battery usage.
3) Privacy If you block the net access to questionable apps, there is no data being sent or received, providing you privacy.
Copy-Paste of features: • Simple to use
• No root required
• 100% open source :
Github• No tracking or analytics
• No advertisements
• Actively developed and supported
• Android 5.1 and later supported
• IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP supported
• Tethering supported
• Optionally allow when screen on
• Optionally block when roaming
• Optionally block system applications
• Optionally notify when an application accesses the internet
• Optionally record network usage per application per address
• Material design theme with light and dark theme
• Log all outgoing traffic; search and filter access attempts; export PCAP files to analyze traffic
• Allow/block individual addresses per application
• New application notifications; configure NetGuard directly from the notification
• Display network speed graph in a status bar notification
• Select from five additional themes in both light and dark version
Website/Download: https://netguard.me/Permissions required explained: Click me!
NetGuard is too good to miss out on!
