Today’s smartphones are all about apps. Without apps, they will turn only into media for receiving and sending calls and messages and nothing more than that. There are countless android apps as well as iPhone apps that users are longing for, both in the free and paid categories and each app is a specialty in itself. But some apps are there that totally ruin your app experience due to their poorest performance and no functionality at all. Each year, there are thousands of android apps and iPhone apps that are nothing more than just trash and despite of their high-sounding promises, give the worst user experience always.
These apps can be divided into following categories for facilitating the users in recognizing and hence avoiding these apps:
- Pirated Apps:These apps are the ones that try to pitch the image of a high-end app for getting popular. These apps have interfaces, graphics and names quite similar to the original apps but the only defect they have is the accompanying adware that can infect your PC once you install these apps on your system. This adware can then irritate you whenever you are online by throwing lots of ads and promotions towards you.
- Apps offering Forced Subscription: Some apps, more commonly among the android apps, will make false claims of being free but will redirect you to a subscription page where you will find that the ‘Free’ offer is only for the trial. The complete app will charge you monthly or annually. Don’t ever download such apps as they are also malicious for your PC.
- Fake Antiviruses:There are innumerable such apps, especially among the android apps, that promise to keep your cellphone absolutely spic and span from inside and your phone won’t ever slow down as long as these apps are installed in your smartphone. If you go for the well-known brands of antivirus programs, you can get highly reliable security for your phone. There are such names found when we try to look for them through Google Play or App Store. But whenever you download antivirus program from somewhere outside the online store, there are greater chances that you are actually investing in a scam. To avoid this, always remember to check who are the actual sponsors of the program and always find and download such apps from the specified app stores of your smartphone.
These are some of the very basic categories of apps that you should look out for and try to be wary about this stuff as it can damage your phone’s software to a great deal. Many android apps and some of the iPhone apps are included in this unending list. So it is very difficult to figure out which of the apps are okay and which ones need to be kept away for good. So next time when you download any app, keep these fake ones in mind for avoiding any possible damages that can be caused by such malicious apps to your smartphones.
