Prahari by AION Analytics

What it will do

Prahari reads the bug report your Android phone makes and compares it, on the phone, with a curated list of indicators of known commercial spyware. It also shows how far behind your phone is on security updates, whether its own protections appear to have been altered, and which apps hold powerful roles such as accessibility services.

• Made for journalists, activists, lawyers and anyone who has reason to think their phone may be watched.
• No cloud upload: the scan runs on your phone, and your bug report and results stay there. If you choose to share which known indicators matched, only that is sent, and it is off unless you turn it on.
• Honest security: we don't claim to detect everything. We tell you exactly what we found, what we checked, and what we couldn't.
• At launch: blocks connections to domains on its list of known spyware infrastructure, on Wi-Fi and mobile data.

Why it matters

In August 2022 a technical committee appointed by the Supreme Court of India examined 29 phones and found malware on five; it could not say whether the malware was Pegasus.

Sources: Scroll.in, 25 August 2022; The Week, 25 August 2022.

What a result means

• It does not upload your phone's data.
• It does not promise safety. "Nothing found" means nothing on the list was found, not that the phone is free of spyware.
• It does not need an account.