Best Android Root Apps of 2026
Backup
Titanium Backup 🆓/💲
Titanium Backup is the most powerful backup tool on Android, and then some. You can backup, restore, freeze (with Pro) your apps + data + Market links. This includes all protected apps & system apps, plus external data on your SD card. You can do 0-click batch & scheduled backups. Backups will operate without closing any apps (with Pro). You can move any app (or app data) to/from the SD card. You can browse any app’s data and even query the Market to see detailed information about the app.
Helium 🆓/💲
Helium was the best app sync and backup solution for Android. Although rooting provided more features, it wasn’t required. All Android users could use Helium to backup and sync Android applications. Helium let you backup your apps and data to your SD card or cloud storage. You could sync app data from your other Android devices– even if they were not on the same network. Unfortunately, the app has been discontinued.
Flashing
TWRP 🆓/💲
Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) is an open-source recovery image for Android-based devices. It provides a touchscreen-enabled interface that allows users to install third-party firmware and back up the current system, functions usually not supported by stock recovery images. It is, therefore, often installed when flashing, installing, or rooting Android devices, although it does not require a device to be rooted before installation.
ClockworkMod 🆓
ClockworkMod, abbreviated as CWM, is a popular custom recovery for Android phones and tablets developed by Koushik Dutta (Koush) – a well-known name in the Android dev community. ClockworkMod recovery allows you to perform several advanced recovery, restoration, installation and maintenance operations on your Android device that aren’t possible with the stock recovery, and is one of the most common ways used to gain root access, back up device data, install custom ROMs, kernels, themes & mods, and more.
Flashify 🆓
Flashify is a free app that lets you flash boot, recovery and zip files on your rooted Android device. You can also backup and restore your data to SD card or Dropbox, and flash Nexus Kernel and Recovery with premium version.
Flashfire 🆓/💲
FlashFire is one of the best on-device firmware flashers available for rooted Android devices. It can flash full firmware packages from various manufacturers, as well as apply over-the-air (OTA) and ZIP updates – all while maintaining root, and without using a custom recovery. It also offers full device backup and restore functionalities in several formats. Relevant files can be stored on internal storage, SD cards, USB connected storage, or can even be streamed directly to and from your computer using USB or Wi-Fi.
Open GApps 🆓
The Open GApps Project is an open-source effort to script the automatic generation of up-to-date Google Apps packages. On OpenGApps.org you can find more information about the project effort and also pre-built Google Apps packages generated by the OpenGApps.org buildbot.
Maintenance
Dumpster 🆓/💲
Tired of accidentally deleting important photos and videos from your device? Download Dumpster, the free Android recycle bin. Once you’ve installed the app, it will automatically backup and save all of your newly deleted data, allowing you to easily undelete pictures and videos, and instantly restore them to your phone. You can think of Dumpster as the keepsafe for all of your personal photos and information.
Servicely 🆓/💲
Servicely is an Android app that allows users to put selected apps into ‘sleep’ mode to conserve battery life when the device’s screen is off. It requires the device to be ‘rooted’ for full functionality, enabling users to manage battery usage effectively by deactivating apps that drain power unnecessarily.
SD Maid 🆓/💲

SD Maid is a system cleaning app for Android that helps manage files and apps, freeing up storage by removing unwanted data like logs and caches. It offers features such as file browsing, duplicate file detection, and scheduled cleaning tasks. When a Android device is rooted, SD Maid is capable of removing system apps and pre-installed bloatware.
System App Remover 🆓/💲
System App Remover is the most popular application for removing system apps on your Android device that can not be disabled or uninstalled. Many times, these system apps are useless, use up extra resources, and are side-loaded by the carrier the device was purchased from.
Logcat Reader 🆓
Debug your apps. Find error stack-traces. See what your phone is saying about you behind your back. It’s all there in the system log, aka Logcat.
ROM Toolbox 🆓/💲
ROM Toolbox combines all the great root apps into one monster app with a beautiful and easy to use interface. ROM Toolbox has every tool you need to make your Android device fast and customized to your liking. ROM Toolbox combines apps like Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, SetCPU, MetaMorph, Autorun Manager, Terminal Emulator, Scripter, SD Boost, BuildProp Editor, Font Installer, Boot Animations and many more apps into an all-in-one interface.
3C All-In-One Toolbox 🆓/💲
3C Toolbox combines many features from other great apps into one giant toolbox with a modern and easy-to-use interface. 3C Toolbox has tons of tools you need to monitor, control and fine-tune all your Android devices.
Greenify 🆓
Greenify is an app designed to improve the performance and battery life of Android devices by hibernating background apps that consume resources. It helps keep your phone running smoothly by preventing unnecessary app activity when not in use.
One Click Root
KingRoot 🆓
KingRoot is the most popular One-Click rooting utility. It is primarily used by those whom are either too lazy or time consumed to perform the recommended root methods. There are two universal ways to root your Android, one is by implementing “exploits”, the other is through flashing custom recovery. The former one is relatively safe while the latter one can be risky. KingRoot mainly focuses on “exploits” method, but also covers “recovery” for certain tricky devices (hot ones with no exploit available).
KingoRoot 🆓
KingoRoot is another popular One-Click root solution for those whom are too lazy to perform the recommended process. There are two universal ways to root your Android, one is by implementing “exploits”, the other is through flashing custom recovery. The former one is relatively safe while the latter one can be risky. KingoRoot mainly focuses on “exploits” method, but also covers “recovery” for certain tricky devices (hot ones with no exploit available).
Superuser
SuperSU 🆓/💲
SuperSU is a discontinued proprietary Android application that can keep track of the root permissions of apps, after the Android device has been rooted. SuperSU is generally installed through a custom recovery such as TWRP. SuperSU includes the option to undo the rooting. SuperSU cannot always reliably hide the rooting. The project includes a wrapper library written in Java called libsuperuser for different ways of calling the su binary.
Magisk Manager 🆓
Magisk Manager is an app for managing Magisk and the best alternative to Chainfire’s SuperSU. Developed by XDA developer topjohnwu, Magisk is in fact much better than SuperSU in some aspects. Unlike SuperSU which only grants or denies root permissions for specific apps, Magisk can hide root from an app completely. Meaning that banking app or game that you couldn’t get to work on your rooted device can work if you’re rooted with Magisk.
Root Checker 🆓/💲
Root Checker, created by developer joeykrim provides even the newest Android user with a simple method to check their device for root (administrator, superuser, or su) access. The application provides a very simple user interface that easily notifies the user whether or not they have properly setup root (superuser) access.
Tweaks
Busybox 🆓/💲
BusyBox is a software application that provides many standard Unix tools, much like the larger (but more capable) GNU Core Utilities. BusyBox is designed to be a small executable for use with the Linux kernel, which makes it ideal for use with embedded devices. It has been self-dubbed “The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux”.
Tasker 🆓
Tasker is an automation app for Android that allows users to create custom tasks based on various contexts like time, location, and events. It enables users to automate repetitive actions on their devices, making them more efficient and personalized.
LiveBoot 🆓/💲
LiveBoot is a boot animation that shows you logcat and dmesg outputs on-screen as they happen. Output configuration includes logcat level, buffer and format selection; whether to show dmesg; the amount of lines that should fit on your screen, whether word-wrap should be employed, and if output should be color-coded. Additionally the background can be set to transparent to overlay the existing boot animation, which looks awesome during boot.
Boot Animations 🆓/💲
A boot animation is the loading animation that is played when your device starts up. The Boot Animations app lets you choose from hundreds of custom load animations to install on your rooted device.
Termux 🆓
Termux grants users access to their Android devices’ built-in Linux command line shell.
Device Control 🆓/💲
Device Control is an app to control several features of your device as well as some nice extra features like a tasker, app manager, editors, entropy generator, wireless file manager and more.
Quick Reboot 🆓/💲
Quick Reboot gives you access to all the advanced reboot options in one single place without the need for ADB, the terminal, or commands.
Miscellaneous
Rec. 🆓/💲
Rec. is a screen recording app that provides untethered, flexible and fully configurable screen recording capabilities for your Android device; neatly packaged into an intuitive user interface.
Root Call Blocker 🆓/💲
Root Call Blocker is a powerful call, SMS and MMS blocker for rooted phones.
Hosts Editor 🆓
Hosts Editor is a hosts manager application helping developers willing to modify their /etc/hosts (/system/etc/hosts) file easily. This could be very useful if you need to test your app on a specific server via its IP. Apps having root access are critical and their sources should be available. The app is 100% free and the source code is available on GitHub.
Solid Explorer 🆓/💲
Solid Explorer is a powerful Android file manager featuring access to the most popular cloud storages, root access and easy extensibility.
Link2SD 🆓/💲
Link2SD is an application manager that makes it easy for Android users to move applications from their device to an SD card.
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