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An Android app that watches for messages from one person, such as your spouse, and makes them impossible to miss — over the lockscreen, over whatever you were doing instead of replying.
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WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger, Instagram, Gmail, plain SMS — it reads notifications, so a new app works on day one without an update.
Full screen over the lockscreen when the phone is asleep, a full-screen overlay when it is not. Optional volume ramp, strobe and text-to-speech, all off by default.
If the app offered an inline reply, so does the popup — the message is sent by WhatsApp itself and lands in the thread as if you had typed it there.
Not the app’s home screen. The exact conversation.
The Snooze button is decorative and says so, escalatingly. Dismiss always works; holding it for two seconds force-closes. Nothing here traps your phone.
A watchdog checks every fifteen minutes that the listener is bound and the permissions still hold, and warns you if not. Silent failure is the real enemy.
About a minute. Step 3 is the one that trips people up.
A few phones — and any phone managed by a work profile or a family-safety policy — block the install outright with no override. In that case:
If it is a work or school profile, an administrator controls this and there is genuinely nothing you can do from the phone.
Honestly? Because of what it is allowed to do. An app that reads every notification, can read SMS, reads your contacts and draws over other apps has the same permission fingerprint as stalkerware. An automated scanner cannot tell the difference between “tells you your spouse messaged” and “reports your spouse to someone”, so it assumes the worst.
That is a reasonable thing for Google to be strict about. It is also why every one of those permissions is optional or explained in setup, why message content never leaves the phone, and why the source and the SHA-256 above are published — so the claim is checkable rather than just asserted.
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Scary-looking permissions on a sideloaded APK deserve an explanation.
| Permission | What it is for | Needed? |
|---|---|---|
| Notification access | Read incoming messages from every app at once | Required |
| Display over other apps | Show the popup instantly while you are using the phone | Required |
| Full screen notifications | Wake the screen and show over the lockscreen | Required |
| Show notifications | The keep-alive notification and the fallback alert | Required |
| Foreground service | Stay alive so nothing is missed overnight | Required |
| Ignore battery optimisation | Survive Doze | Strongly recommended |
| Contacts | Pull their photo and phone numbers — matching works without it | Optional |
| Receive SMS | A second detection route for plain text messages | Optional |
| Do Not Disturb access | Let their messages through when DND is on | Optional |
| Install packages | The in-app updater | Optional |
This app does not send any of your personal data off your phone. It stays local. It simply needs a lot of permissions, because it takes a lot of permissions to do what it does.
It reads the notifications your phone already shows, on the device, to decide whether one is from the person you configured. Nothing about a message ever leaves the phone.
Two of the things that make it work — reading notifications and receiving SMS — need a Play policy waiver that a personal project will not get. Sideloading skips that conversation entirely.
Yes, and it may block the install outright rather than just warn. That is not only because the APK came from outside Play — it is also the permission set. Reading notifications plus SMS plus contacts plus drawing over other apps is the same fingerprint stalkerware has, and a scanner cannot tell intent apart from capability. The install guide above has the exact taps, including what to do when there is no "Install anyway" button.
No. That is the whole joke. Dismiss always works, and a two-second hold on Dismiss force-closes the popup, so the app can never trap your phone.
Yes. Nothing is hard-coded — it watches whoever you put in the setup screen.
Those skins kill background apps aggressively. Setup detects your manufacturer and deep-links you to the exact autostart screen that fixes it, with the taps spelled out.
“I created this for myself and it’s really useful, so here it is for you to use.”
— Berel
You may have issues installing this because of security permissions. Click here to read the instructions if you get stuck.