Featured Android App Review: Advanced Mobile Care [Tools]

IObit says their Advanced Mobile Care app is a swiss army knife of Android tuning tools, and they aren’t kidding. From security to performance, there isn’t much this app doesn’t do. It’s actually been out for a while, but they just updated to 3.0 to include anti-theft protection, a call blocker, tablet support, and an improved battery saver.

This all-in-one app features real-time virus scans, anti-theft protection, a game speeder, battery saver, call blocker, app manager, task killer, privacy locker, privacy advisor, and cloud backup. Now you would expect with all these features, it has to be complicated, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Advanced Mobile Care’s UI is elegant, and simple to navigate. It’s the perfect app for not only the expert, but the novice as well.

When opening the app you will get a large SCAN button at the top with a few options at the bottom. Tapping SCAN will completely scan your system and let you know if any viruses are present, what tasks are running, how much cache you have, and how many junk files you have. I personally would stay away from the task side of things because Android already has a very efficient mechanism for that, but the option is there if you insist.

Assuming your device is free from viruses, you will want to concentrate on the cache and junk files. Just tap cache and you will see how much cache is stored for each app. If you’re not familiar with cache files, they are temporary files created by each app. They do nothing but slow your system so deleting them regularly is a good thing. Advanced Mobile Care will already check off all the apps that have cache, but you can bypass that and select the particular apps you want. Junk files will consist of log and temp files, browser history, as well as unnecessary thumbnail files. You can also include your call logs and SMS messages if you wish. After you have made your selections, the SCAN button will now say REPAIR. Just tap on that to clean/delete everything you have chosen. Going back to the anti-virus aspect, it’s a 24/7 scanner, which means it automatically scans any apps that you install, so you don’t have to remember to run the scan.

If you tap on the bottom center box icon, you will see all the other options that Advanced Mobile Care offers:

Game Speeder

If you have any games that are processor intensive and you find they are choppy at best, you will want to utilize this feature. Just add any games that you want, and that choppy lag will disappear magically.

App Manager

Will let you uninstall apps, move any apps to the SD card, and manage any third-party APK files stored on your device.

Battery Saver

Will tell you how much battery is remaining in terms of percentage as well as time.Tap on the top right icon to find out what apps are using the battery the most. Tap on the top left information icon gives you other status info like health, voltage, temperature, etc. You can also choose to turn the Battery Saver option on or off at the bottom. If turned on, it will maximize your battery life. I did reach out to IObit on what exactly the battery saver does in order to improve your battery, but I wasn’t able to get an answer.

Task Killer

It will allow you to kill any apps that are running. You can also exclude certain apps from showing in this list. I would recommend that you stay away from this section because the Android OS already has it’s own management for closing apps.

Privacy Advisor

Will tell you what apps have ads in them as well as tell you what permissions each app has. It will categorize them by permissions so for example, you can quickly find out what apps can access your contacts or your location.

Anti-theft

Will allow you to get the location of your phone, lock it, or sound an alarm in the event that it’s lost or stolen. There is one caveat, and that is that you need to use another phone that has Advanced Mobile Care. It’s not a deal breaker, but a little bit of a nuisance if you’re friend doesn’t have the app already installed on their phone. Just enter the phone number of your lost phone into your friend’s phone with Advanced Mobile Care, and you will be able to do the things I mentioned above.

Cloud Backup

This will let you backup your contacts and call logs. You will need to open an account in order to do this, but it will give you the ability to restore them from any phone. Assuming you contacts are in Gmail, using this to backup contacts is kind of useless, but I guess it doesn’t hurt to have another backup if it doesn’t cost you anything.

Just in case any of the above isn’t enough for you, there is a handy widget that lets you quickly run scans directly from your homescreen as well as check system information and set the battery saving mode to on or off.

As you can see, Advanced Mobile Care is definitely the swiss army knife of Android tuning tools. Not only does it offer so many features, but it has a simple and elegant user interface. Now you would think something as comprehensive as this would cost a few bucks, but not this one. It’s absolutely Free and I recommend you try it out now. From anti-theft to making your device run smoother to speeding up your games, there is very little that Advanced Mobile Care doesn’t do. Grab it now and thank me later. Check out my hands on video below and hit one of the download links to get started. As always, let me know what you think.