App Review: Startup Auditor
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Android is a great platform for mobile phones – but bloatware is added to it by our phone companies to subsidize the cost of our phones. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything we could do to stop these applications from starting at boot until Startup Auditor became available on the Market.
As its name indicates, Startup Auditor analyzes what apps start at your phone’s startup, and you can stop them from starting at boot or all together! This is incredibly useful if you’re a Sprint user (for example) and don’t use Moxier Mail but it is forever starting and running in the background, draining valuable battery life. It’s also useful for other applications, too – anything that starts automatically and you don’t want it starting automatically, like Instant Messenger programs or calendar services.
The only downfall of this $0.99 app is that all startup applications aren’t listed, but with a future release, things may improve on this front. Overall, I give this app 4 out of 5 stars.
Click on the text in the box below to download Startup Auditor to your phone or add to your list at AppBrain.com.
Startup Auditor works on Android 1.5 and above, and is $0.99. Test it and return it within 24 hours if you don’t like it or see its value!
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Nice review! This app looks really handy and I’ve always wondered how to shut down some of those unwanted apps that start up. Now I know!
Just wanted to chime in and say that I’ve released a version with a larger app list! Please try it out and let me know what you think! Appreciate the review.
This is a great app that has gotten better! Thanks for the improvements!