The kids of today’s generation are way too smarter than their parents in terms of technological knowledge. Like most parents, if you too have given a phone to your kid, your biggest concern would surely be related to the unacceptable activities that one can perform using a cell phone. And to be honest, you can’t even track those activities, no matter how frequently you check their cell phones manually. And the reason is that they know how to use a phone better than you ever did.
So what to do now? You can’t even refuse to give them a cell phone, because it’s a necessity to cope up with today’s era. Well, the only answer to your question is a cell phone spying app. But then another question arises. Does simply installing a spying app on their Android device while letting your kid know about its installation will help you achieve your task? Absolutely no. They will anyhow find a way to tackle that problem or might show the audacity to simply uninstall the app.
Now what you can do is, install a tracking app on their device and hide it. Using this simple trick you will be able to track their Android devices and they won’t be able to tamper with the app. Even while knowing about the existence of such an app on their Android device, by just hiding it, they won’t be able to find a way to delete it.
So, let’s hit the road without wasting any more time and get ourselves introduced to the list of the 9 best spy apps for Android that work in hidden mode.
DISCLAIMER – Before installing a spying app on the Android device of your kid, it’s necessary that you make them aware of such an installation. Without their consent, it would be inappropriate to install a monitoring app on their device.
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Best Hidden Spy Apps For Android
All the apps mentioned here, give you an option to hide their app icon while installing them on the target device letting them run in the background. Moreover, they are installed with a generic installation name hence they are hard to detect.
1. SPY24
SPY24 monitoring app for Android phones offers some features without rooting that are not provided by any other apps.
Along with the normal features like tracking of calls, messages on social media, tracking of videos, photos, keylogger, location tracking, etc, you get some advanced features as well.
Using the SPY24 Call Recording feature, you can eavesdrop on the call recording of the target device. And this feature worked perfectly for us. Just the recording from the other end could have been louder, but it’s not like the voice is not audible.
By getting remote access to the target phone remotely, the app takes screenshots while the target person is using their phone.
If sometimes you wonder what your kids are doing right now, you can curb out your curiosity by getting access to the rear camera and secretly take photos of the surroundings.
You’ll like the working of the Take Photos feature as the app updates the photos within 15-20 seconds after it’s clicked. And the thing is that you can use this feature without even rooting your partner’s phone.
The remotely captured photos, call recordings, and phone screenshots might take some time in uploading on the portal.
The feature that impressed us the most and worked beyond our expectations was Keylogger. SPY24 keylogger works better than the keylogger of almost every spy app. Unlike the keylogger of most of the spy apps where you’ll see incomplete keystrokes, on SPY24, all the keystrokes made on various apps on the phone were present as they were.
In addition to that, the updates on the keylogger section were within seconds. So if you notice something that requires immediate action, you can rely on SPY24 for that.
If social media and instant messaging apps are your keen areas of tracking, even then SPY24 can be your primary choice.
Be it for spying on WhatsApp, Facebook, Snapchat, or Instagram, you can easily keep a track of all the social media accounts easily.
The monitoring of social accounts is not solely dependent on text. Along with the text, you will receive the screenshots while the target person is using their social media accounts.
All of these amazing features can be accessed while the app runs in stealth mode. So basically, SPY24 makes your monitoring experience complete in each and every aspect.
When it comes to pricing, you can go for 3 different plans based on the devices. If you choose the 1-Month Plan, you have to pay $39.95/month. If you pay for three months upfront, you need to pay $19.98/month, and if you choose 1-Year Plan, then you have to pay just, $9.16/month.
What We Loved
Impressive data sync speed
The data being tracked is absolutely accurate
Keylogger of the app works amazingly
Advance features are available without rooting
Tracking of social media with screenshots makes your tracking more reliable
You can take the photos remotely from the target phone anytime
What We Didn't Like
The voice of the other person in the call recording should have been louder
Location feature worked inaccurately sometimes
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Recommended: Read our detailed SPY24 review
Also, check our detailed review video of SPY24.
2. FlexiSPY
The next one on the list is FlexiSPY, an app that provides advanced-level features even when the phone isn’t rooted.
Some of these advanced features include call recording, capturing the photos and videos from the target device remotely, and listening to surrounding sounds.
Other features include SIM card change notification, keylogger, and access to call logs, etc. With FlexiSPY, you can also keep a track of the apps that your kid used recently. Plus, the list of all the apps installed on the target device can be seen as well.
If you wonder what’s going on nearby your kid, you can secretly record and listen to the surrounding voices. You can even record the video by easily getting remote access to the target device’s camera.
Marking the keylogger as the flagship feature of the app shouldn’t surprise anyone. FlexiSPY keylogger shows the keystrokes for all the apps where something was typed. And it works better than the keylogger of any other app that we have tested.
FlexiSPY also works with phones that are rooted. And with a rooted device, you open a room for other tracking features as well.
If the Android device is rooted and you have an EXTREME plan, you can spy on someone’s phone in plenty of other ways. Along with the cellular calls and messages, you also get access to VoIP calls and messages sent on social media. Including the call logs and recordings from Facebook, WhatsApp, LINE, Skype, and Viber.
With the EXTREME plan, you will get all the premium monitoring features plus some more features. This will make it possible for you to do the call recording (root not required) and even call interception (for rooted).
FlexiSPY has three different plans. The LITE plan costs you $29.95 per month, PREMIUM plan costs you $68 per month, and EXTREME plan costs you $199 for 3 months. If you pay for 3 months or 12 months in one go while choosing the PREMIUM plan, you can save a lot of money.
What We Loved
Full control on the device remotely
Advanced features like Call Recording without rooting
Best Keylogger ever
Flexispy has good support service
Hide rooting traces for the target device
What We Didn't Like
Extreme and premium plans are a bit expensive
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Recommended: Read our detailed FlexiSPY review
3. uMobix
uMobix is a new spy app in the market but the way it works will make you fall for it. Despite being a new spy app, it has everything that you want to keep a track of your loved ones.
From calls to messages, contacts, photos, videos, and location, all the features of the app make it better than most spy apps that exist in the market for years.
Most of the spy apps fail to impress their customers with their keylogger due to which they lose their reputation in the market. But the uMobix keylogger impressed us a lot.
All the keystrokes that the target person makes appear on the portal for you to check remotely. The date and time stamp with each keystroke makes keystroke tracking more detailed.
If you suspect your spouse of an affair then missing their social account and instant messaging apps can be a big mistake.
With uMobix installed on their phone, you’ll have complete access to your spouse’s social accounts. uMobix takes screenshots from time to time while the target person is using WhatsApp, Facebook, Snapchat, or any other app.
The list of social apps and instant messaging apps that uMobix supports is also quite long. Some of the other apps include Tinder, Zoom, TikTok, Viber, Telegram, Wechat, and so on.
These timely screenshots will make sure you don’t miss anything important.
As you can see, uMobix also monitors the TikTok activities of the user. Being one of the most influential apps of recent times, it becomes important to keep an eye on the TikTok account of the kids.
Most tracking apps neglect the negatives of TikTok and don’t provide any specific tracking feature for the app. But with uMobix it’s easy to keep a check on TikTok activities.
All the spy apps will offer you web browser tracking, but do they also monitor what’s searched on the incognito tab as well? Unlike most spy apps, uMobix monitors incognito history for you.
uMobix has kept its services quite inexpensive which is really appreciable. You can purchase a 1-month plan of uMobix for $39.99, $44.97 if you purchase their services for 3-months, the 6-month plan can be brought for $49.99, and the 12-month plan will cost you $89.88.
What We Loved
Also shows the messages that are sent and deleted immediately
Keylogger feature also shows the data copied to the clipboard
Accurate tracking of browsing history
Searches from the incognito tab are also tracked
Data sync speed is very good
Tracking with screenshots makes tracking of data even better
What We Didn't Like
Bookmarks are not shown by the app
Updates in social media are not consistent
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Recommended: Read our detailed uMobix review
4. mSpy
The list for the best hidden Android spying apps will always remain incomplete without adding mSpy.
The app gives you access to images and videos stored on the target device. The chats on various social media platforms like Kik, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Line, Tinder, etc. can be traced easily.
To make sure that your kid’s in the vicinity, you can take the help of the GPS location. It will give you updates regarding the current location of your child. With the help of the geofencing feature, you can create imaginary fencing. Now, whenever your child crosses that fence, you immediately get an update about that.
Some other amazing features of mSpy include website bookmarks, where you can keep an eye on the websites that your kid has bookmarked on the browser. Using the keylogger feature you will be able to keep an eye on the typing activities of your kid.
mSpy also makes it easy for the parents to check out the list of WiFi networks that their kid’s phone had connected to. Accessing the outgoing and incoming emails on the target device is also not a big task while using mSpy.
If the price is what you’re concerned about, you would be happy to know that mSpy has a basic plan that costs you just $29.99 per month. Moreover, the premium plan costs $69.99 per month, with some extra features. If you want to save more money, you can go for the 3 months or 12 months subscription.
Moreover, mSpy offers an exclusive 15% discount for SpyDrill readers on all of their plans. To grab the discount use the “SPYDRILL15” coupon code at checkout.
What We Loved
Quick and easy set up
Easy to use
Access to enough features without rooting
Geofencing feature available
mSpy makes it possible to block unnecessary apps
What We Didn't Like
You can monitor one device at a time
Sometimes it takes time to upload new data from the target device
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Recommended: Read our detailed mSpy review
You can also learn about mSpy in our detailed video review.
5. pcTattletale
pcTattletale is an app that works differently than most Android spy apps in the market. No app gives the feature to see the real-time view of the target phone’s screen remotely, except pcTattletale.
With its Live View feature, the app takes access to the phone screen of your loved ones and shows them remotely on its online portal.
The live recording shown by pcTattletale is just a few seconds behind what’s actually going on the target phone.
If you don’t have much time to view the live streaming of the phone, even then there’s no need to miss anything important. pcTattletale will record the video when you are offline. Once you’re back, you can watch the recorded video anytime.
If you want a monitoring app to monitor your kids then you’ll cherish the Click Activity feature of pcTattletale.
This feature will show you the number of taps made by the target person on their phone every hour. This way you can know if they are addicted to their phone or not.
A spy app without a location monitoring feature doesn’t make any sense. Thankfully, pcTattletale doesn’t fall into this category. You can check the current location of your lover whenever you want with the pcTattletale Location Tracking feature.
pcTattetale has 3 different plans for people with different needs. The first one is the FAMILY plan that costs $99 with a storage capacity of 7 days. The next one is the FAMILY PLUS plan that costs $147 and has a storage capacity of 30 days. Finally comes the BUSINESS plan that will cost you $297 with a storage capacity of 365 days. All three plans can monitor 3 devices at a time.
The best part of their plans is that you don’t need to purchase a separate plan or any other spy app if you want to monitor someone’s computer as well. With pcTattletale, you can add up to 3 devices be it Android or PC, and track them easily with the same plan.
What We Loved
Tracking of the target phone is done with live streaming
Video is recorded if you are offline
Possible to know the usage of the phone every hour
The location tracking feature works perfectly
The live recording is just a few seconds behind
What We Didn't Like
Live recording fails to show video played on the target phone
The live recording does not work in incognito mode
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Recommended: Read our detailed pcTattletale review
6. iKeyMonitor
iKeyMonitor is undoubtedly one of the most popular monitoring apps. It makes your device tracking complete in almost every sense.
The app has a huge list of features that are capable enough to give you the best monitoring experience and you won’t feel like there’s anything else left for monitoring on the kids or spouse phone.
For starting the monitoring on the target device, you need to set up the app on both the kid’s/partner device and the parent’s (your) device.
Once the device is set up with all the necessary permissions, all the data on the target device will be accessible.
The best thing about iKeyMonitor is that the app gives access to many advanced features without even demanding for the rooting of the target cellphone.
These advanced features include call recording, keystroke detection, app screenshots, access to the surrounding sounds, and the phone camera.
We personally liked the app screenshot and photos feature of iKeyMonitor a lot. There was not even a single photo that was received by the target cell phone but wasn’t uploaded on the iKeyMonitor account.
The screenshots can be taken anytime while the kid is using any app on their device. So, you’ll be aware of all the activities going on different apps with mere screenshots.
Similarly, the surroundings feature won our hearts too. All the ambient voices around the target smartphone recorded by iKeyMonitor were completely audible. What all your spouse discusses with someone can be heard easily by listening to the recorded ambient sounds.
Complete access to all the text messages and photos from various social media platforms is another great thing about iKeyMonitor.
Most importantly, the app works in stealth mode. So your kid won’t be able to know anything about the app installation, making your spying easy and undetectable.
The reason why I personally like iKeyMonitor so much is that the app gives a free plan as well, obviously with limitations of features. 3-day free access to advanced-level features is also available.
So basically you can use the app first and make a decision in 3 days whether you want to invest your money on the app or not.
iKeyMonitor has 2 different plans which the user can go for. One is the Free plan which means you need not spend a single buck to use the app. The second one is the Paid plan which you get for $29.16/month, with access to all the supreme features.
What We Loved
Advanced features available without rooting
iKeyMonitor also gives a FREE plan to its users with basic monitoring features
Even the paid plan of the app is not much expensive
Surrounding sounds were completely audible
The app screenshots feature works very well
What We Didn't Like
Takes a few minutes to upload new data
Social media tracking with iKeyMonitor might be incomplete
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Recommended: Read our detailed iKeyMonitor review
7. Hoverwatch
Here comes another undetectable spying app for Android to keep a watch on the kids and employees. Hoverwatch provides you with all the necessary features that one needs to spy on Android devices.
With the screenshots of the target device from time to time, there’s no way you’ll miss any activity that the kid is doing using their cellphone.
Screenshots are not the only thing that Hoverwatch captures. The kid won’t even realize and Hoverwatch will take the photos of the surroundings by getting access to the front camera of the target phone and show them to you remotely.
This can be a great way to know where your kid actually is and you can make sure they are not in any kind of trouble.
Be the messages received or sent on Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, or Viber, everything is tracked by Hoverwatch.
Other than messages, you will also get the screenshots from the Instagram newsfeed/explore tab, Facebook, and Snapchat or the screenshot from any other social app that is used on the target phone.
Even the pages accessed by the child on the browser will be seen in the form of screenshots.
Overall you can say that with Hoverwatch, there’s a possibility to spy on every activity going on the target device.
Have you ever wondered who are the best buddies of your kid and are they really genuine? Well, you can now have a peek at their contact list to know about their friends.
Why just look at their contact list and wonder “who is this person my kid has been meeting and receiving phone calls from.”
Use the Locations feature and catch your kid while they are out with someone unknown. Or simply listen to the call recording that Hoverwatch records for you.
Hoverwatch has 3 plans for you. Professional plan for $49.95/month with tracking of 5 devices, Personal plan for $24.95/month with tracking of 1 device, and Business plan for $149.95/month with tracking of 25 devices.
What We Loved
Frequent screenshots from the target smartphone
Don’t take much time in uploading data
App settings are flexible and can be easily modified
Call recording was easily audible from both sides
What We Didn't Like
The app itself provides the data with its time, you can’t personally select a particular feature and use it
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Recommended: Read our detailed Hoverwatch review
8. Spyic
Spyic will always make its place in the list of best hidden spying apps for Android for sure. The app has a very clean and simple design, making it easy for you to monitor your kid’s smartphone.
There are various amazing features offered by Spyic using which you can not only track your kids but your employees and lover too.
Using Spyic, you can keep track of all the calls made using the target device. And the list of all the contacts that exist on the target device can be seen as well.
At times, it becomes necessary to check the messages sent and received by the target phone on various social media and instant messaging apps. Spyic helps you keep an eye on social media and instant messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Viber, Snapchat, and more, very easily.
When it comes to the tracking of Messenger, Spyic extracts all the messages sent and received by the child and show them on your screen.
Curious about the photos stored on the monitored device? It’s easy to peek at those photos and the photos can even be downloaded locally.
Location tracking becomes necessary when you have a teenager to monitor who is always ready to step out of the house and rover all around. So you can always use the Spyic Location feature to keep the track of the current location of your loved ones.
For the safety of the kids from the filthy content on the internet, the Browser History feature is gonna help you out.
If your concern is that the employees or your kids might change the SIM card, then you need not panic. Spyic immediately alerts you with an email, that the SIM card has been removed or changed.
Keylogger feature in Spyic will help you see each and every keystroke that the kid makes on the device. Many times the Spyic keylogger shows the words that are not typed by the kids but just present on the phone screen.
This can sometimes reveal the activities of the child that would not have been possible otherwise.
For example, when the child is reading something from the web, the keylogger might show you that text and you’ll be able to know what all stuff your child likes to read on the internet.
Spyic offers three different plans to its users and you can choose the one according to your needs. The basic plan costs about $39.99 per month, the premium will cost you $49.99, and the family pack for $69.99. You can save a large amount of money if you buy 3 months or 12 months pack.
What We Loved
Simple and sober design of the app
Photos on the target device are easily accessible
Keylogger of Spyic works properly
You can easily access the calendar activities
What We Didn't Like
The location and web history feature didn’t work in our case
Videos in the target device were not getting downloaded
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Recommended: Read our detailed Spyic review
9. Cocospy
Just as you would expect from a spy app, Cocospy extracts the information related to the calls that were made before and after installing the app on the target device.
The same goes for the list of contacts available on the target phone.
Be it the messages from companies or someone near and dear one to your spouse, you’ll be updated with conversation from both sides.
Getting updates about the location is necessary in order to keep a complete check over the partner, employee, or the teen’s cell phone. Cocospy assists you by keeping you updated about the current location of the child. And also the recent locations where the child was some time ago.
The browsing history feature is supposed to check on all the stuff that the teen watches on the internet.
Coming to social media tracking, this feature worked amazingly for some social apps and was a disappointment while testing on others.
For instance, the activities for Instagram were tracked perfectly well. The conversation from both ends was available and other notifications were also given, like when someone tagged you in a post.
But you’ll get disappointed seeing the updates given for WhatsApp.
The Keylogger feature will make you aware of all the keystrokes that children perform on various apps on their phones.
Cocospy has three different plans for its Android customers. The Basic plan for $39.99/month, the Premium plan for $49.99/month, and the Family plan for $69.99/month.
What We Loved
Updates data from the target phone to your Cocospy account quickly
The photo tracking feature of Cocospy works very well
No rooting and jailbreaking required to monitor the target phone
SIM Card feature available to give you updates when the target person changes SIM
What We Didn't Like
The browser history feature does not work properly
The phone might slow down
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Recommended: Read our detailed Cocospy review
Video From Our YouTube Channel: Best Android Spy Apps
You can also watch the video on our YouTube channel to learn about the best spy apps for Android that work in hidden mode and don’t require rooting.
What Should Be My Final Choice?
All the apps mentioned above are top-notch and work amazingly with Android devices. Moreover, all of them can be hidden on the target Android phone. If the device is not rooted and you’re a bit confused while making the final choice then we recommend you go for SPY24 or FlexiSPY. With this, we hope you’ll finally be able to decide which app you should go for.
FAQs
How To Spy On Android Phone?
It's possible to spy on an Android phone once you install any of the monitoring apps mentioned in this article.
Can Android Spy Apps Be Detected?
While installing the spy app if you choose to hide the app icon, then you don't need to fear about the spy app revealing itself.
Do Spy App For Android Really Work?
Yes, spy apps work after you install them on the target Android cell phone. They extract the data from the target device and show it to you via their online portal remotely.
What Are The Best Undetectable Hidden Spy Apps For Android?
Spyic and FlexiSPY can be easily listed as the best undetectable hidden spy apps to monitor the target Android phone.
Can I Remotely Install Spyware On Android Cell Phone?
No, it's not possible to install the spy app on Android remotely. The reason is that you need to give certain permissions which can only be done once you have remote access to the phone.
