Find Fake Copies. Of Your Mobile App.
Fake apps use your name and logo to steal logins or payments. They sit in app stores where customers expect to find the real thing.
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- Acme Corp
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- acme.com
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- Acme Apps Ltd
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- acme-app-login.com
Hard To Tell Apart. Easy To Install.
Fake mobile app detection finds fake apps, meaning copies and imitations of your app, in app stores. You describe the real app, the platform looks for copies, and each fake comes with screenshots and details ready to report to the store for removal. The store decides. It protects customers who would otherwise download the wrong app.
- 01 A Fake Can Sit Next To The Real App Copies use your name, icon and screenshots. A customer searching in a hurry may install the wrong one.
- 02 Many Stores, No Single List Apps are published across several stores and regions, and fakes can also be handed out by link, outside the stores.
- 03 Customers Blame You Someone who loses a login or a payment to a fake app contacts you, not the store.
From Real App. To A Ready Report.
Each step hands the next one a finished piece of work.
- Describe The Real App You give the app name, publisher name and links so the platform knows what is genuine.
- Look For Copies The platform checks app stores and the web for apps and pages that imitate yours.
- Report With Evidence Each fake comes with screenshots and details, ready for a report to the store. The store decides.
What Changes Once It Runs.
- Fakes Found By You, Not By Customers You see an imitation before complaints start.
- Reports That Are Ready To Send Evidence is collected once and reused in each report.
- A List Of What Is Open You can see which fakes are reported, removed or still live.
Kinds Of Fake Apps. And How They Spread.
A fake app is not always a plain copy. These are the forms covered on this page, each with a page that explains it in plain words.
- In the stores Store Copies Copies use your name, icon and screenshots, so a customer in a hurry may install the wrong one. Read More →
- Outside the stores Apps Shared By Link Fakes can also be handed out by link, so they never appear in a store listing. Read More →
- How people get there Smishing Text messages that push people to install an app or open a link. Read More →
- Lookalike pages Install Pages On Lookalike Domains Pages that push people to install an app are found through the lookalike page and domain checks. Read More →
- Stolen logins Phishing Tricking people into giving up logins or payment details. Read More →
- Malware Godfather Android Banking Trojan A technical analysis of an Android banking trojan, the kind of malware fake apps can carry. Read More →
The Parts Of The Platform. That Do The Work.
Built For The People. Who Protect The Customer.
Questions People Ask. About Fake Mobile App Detection.
Ask The TeamQuestions about your own domain? Get in touch.-
We prepare the evidence and the report. The store makes the decision, and how fast depends on the store.
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Coverage is shown in the demo for the stores you care about. Ask about regional stores if your customers use them.
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Pages that push people to install an app are found through the lookalike page and domain checks.
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Compare the publisher name, icon, screenshots and links with the real app. The platform asks you to describe the real app first, so it knows what is genuine.
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Your team approves and sends the report. Each fake comes with screenshots and details, and the store makes the decision.
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Until it is removed, customers can install the wrong app. Someone who loses a login or a payment to a fake contacts you, not the store, so early detection shortens that time.
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It is a copy or imitation of your app. Fake apps use your name, icon and screenshots, so a customer in a hurry may install the wrong one. They can sit next to the real app in a store.
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You give the app name, publisher name and links. This tells the platform what is genuine. It then looks for copies in app stores and on the web.
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Smishing is the use of text messages to push people to install an app or open a link. A fake app can be spread this way, outside the stores. Install pages on lookalike domains are another route.
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They can lose a login or a payment. Some fake apps carry malware, such as banking trojans. The customer often contacts you, not the store.
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