CrookCatcher • Anti-Theft

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.2
70.6K reviews
50L+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

🔐 CrookCatcher: Your Personal Phone Security Guard
Worried about phone theft or snooping? Me too, that's why I built this app. CrookCatcher protects your phone by capturing photos whenever someone enters the wrong password, PIN, or pattern. Then, it emails you with intruder photos, GPS location, and estimated address. But CrookCatcher can do lots more!

🌟 Trusted by Millions
- 8+ million downloads
- 500M+ intruder photos captured in 190+ countries since 2014

🥳 Free Features everyone needs
✅ Capture intruder photos
✅ Detect GPS location
✅ Send alert emails

🚀 Upgrade to PRO for Advanced Security

🔍 Record Intruders in Detail
- Capture VIDEOS with sound for clear evidence of intruders.
- Use the back-facing camera for environment details.
- Auto-upload photos/videos to Google Drive for access on any device.

🎭 Outsmart Thieves
- Display a fake home screen to trick intruders.
- Show a custom lock screen message warning thieves.

🚨 Advanced App Security
- Hide the app with a disguised icon and name.
- Customize alert email subjects and hide notifications.
- Lock access to CrookCatcher with a pattern code.

🔐 Catch Even After Unlock
Break-in detection captures a photo if the intruder successfully guesses your password after failed attempts.

😵 Protection Against Shutdown Attempts
CrookCatcher can block the power menu, quick settings, and notification shade to capture evidence when thieves try to turn off your phone or enable airplane mode. CrookCatcher uses the accessibility permission to detect these elements on the lock screen. (Experimental feature, may not work on all devices.)

🔋 Battery-Friendly
Inactive unless someone enters the wrong PIN, ensuring minimal battery usage.

❗ Important Notes
- Unlock your phone once after rebooting to re-enable CrookCatcher.
- Not compatible with pop-up cameras or fingerprint errors.
- On Android 13+, a system notification appears when the camera is in use.
- Uses Device Administrator permission to monitor unlock attempts securely.

🛠 Help & Privacy
Visit www.crookcatcher.app for help and FAQs. Privacy matters — learn more at www.crookcatcher.app/privacy.

🚀 Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late!
Download CrookCatcher today and outsmart thieves!
Updated on
15 Feb 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
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Ratings and reviews

4.2
70.2K reviews
Rob M
22 March 2025
(Edit) PLEASE PLEASE make this available for pixel tablet! 🤩 I really like this, does exactly what I wanted, the only one bad thing, is that when you have Google drive enabled, it uploads the data to the main directory, it would be literally perfect if you could create a folder in drive, with video and photo subdirectories, and have the app data uploaded there, as it is now I can't see an option to do this and it just feels like a simple option that should be there, but unfortunately isn't yet.
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CrookCatcher
21 March 2025
Hi Rob! This is true, you can't do this at the moment. It's on the list! My best, Jakob
Curt steven Laxamana
29 April 2025
Just got it yesterday. the security features are legitimate, especially the anti-theft capture. The photos of the intruder are automatically sent to my email. There's also an alert sound feature that helps you to be alerted when someone is trying to snitch. I also love the popup message features that the intruder will read. I am just hoping that this app will have a website where you can control your phone to reset, locate, or enable alarm if missing. please reconsider 🥰
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Mike Brown 2
8 January 2025
CrookCatcher offers excellent security features, but the subscription model can be a barrier. I'd love the option to purchase core features like App Lock, Fake Home Screen, Sound Alarm, and Hide Notifications with a one-time fee. Allowing ads for one-time buyers could make this viable. This would make CrookCatcher more accessible to users on a budget while still supporting premium subscriptions.
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CrookCatcher
11 January 2025
Hey Mike, thanks for your suggestions. Given the price of the subscription, what do you think would be a fair price for a one-time purchase then? And should it be for individual features or the whole bunch minus ad-free? Feel free to reply, either here to contact@crookcatcher.app. Best regards, Jakob

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements
🚀 CrookCatcher 3.0 is here! 🚀
😱 Video capture (PRO)
🤩 Google Drive upload (PRO)
🤙 In-app activity logs (FREE)
💫 Fresh UI updates, bug fixes and other improvements.
🎉 Enjoy! All the best, Jakob