Sargas by AION Analytics

What it will do

Sargas 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 2023 the European Parliament concluded an inquiry into Pegasus and similar spyware, which found it had been used against journalists, opposition politicians and others in several EU member states, and recommended stricter rules.

Sources: Amnesty International EU Office, 19 June 2023; EDRi, 9 May 2023.

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.