PacketLens
See which companies your apps contact. Scanned on your phone.
Overview
Pick an app, run a short scan, then use the app as you normally would. PacketLens notes every server that app tries to reach and turns the result into a plain-English report: which companies it contacted, what each of them does, and whether they are known for advertising, analytics or profiling. The scan runs entirely on the phone. There is no account and no server, and the app does not hold Android's internet permission, so it cannot send anything anywhere.
Why It's Different
No internet permission
PacketLens is not merely promising not to phone home. Android will not let it: the permission that would allow it is not in the app.
Written in plain English
Every company gets a sentence explaining what it actually does, and where it is based. Not a list of domain names to decipher.
Honest about blind spots
When an app hides its lookups behind its own encrypted DNS, the report says the scan may be incomplete rather than reporting a clean result.
Nothing to sign up for
No account, no email, no sign-in. Reports live on the phone and can be deleted at any time.
Key Features
A verdict you can read at a glance
Every scan ends with a plain rating, from clean through to heavy tracking, and a one-line summary of what was found.
Companies grouped by purpose
Advertising, profiling, analytics, social, crash reporting, the app's own servers and general infrastructure, each in its own group.
Down to the exact server
Open any company to see its headquarters country, how many times it was contacted, and every address the app reached.
Watch a scan as it runs
Live view of connections and companies as they appear, with the time remaining.
Scan history
Keep reports and compare the same app over time, or one app against another.
Share card
Produce a summary card from any report to show someone what an app was doing.
CSV export (Premium)
Take the full company and address list out of the app for your own analysis.
Dark mode throughout
Every screen, not just the main ones.
No root required
Works on a standard Android device, with no special access.
How It Works
- Step 01
Choose an app
Pick any app installed on the phone.
- Step 02
Pick a scan length
Two or five minutes, or ten minutes with Premium.
- Step 03
Use the app normally
Open it and browse as usual. The more of it you use, the more complete the report.
- Step 04
Come back when you're done
The scan also stops on its own when the time runs out.
- Step 05
Read the report
Verdict, companies grouped by what they do, and the exact servers behind each one.
What's Under the Hood
Free & Premium
Free - $0
One scan per day / Verdict, summary and the top three companies in every report / Your latest report always available / 2 and 5 minute scans.
Premium - $4.99 (one-time, lifetime)
Unlimited scans / Every company with details and exact servers / Full scan history / 10-minute deep scans / CSV export.
What It Does Not Do
It does not block anything
PacketLens reports what an app contacts. To keep an app offline permanently, that is PacketLock's job.
It does not read your traffic
The report records which servers were contacted and how often, never the contents of a connection.
It cannot see what you did not open
A scan captures what the app does while you use it. Features you did not open may not appear.
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