Insular vs Port Authority
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Insular
Insular is a FLOSS fork of Island. With Insular, you can: Isolate your Big Brother apps Clone and run multiple accounts simutaniuosly Freeze or archive apps and prevent any background behaviors Unfreeze apps on-demand with home screen shortcuts Re-freeze marked apps with one tap Hide apps Selectively enable (or disable) VPN for different group of apps Prohibit USB access to mitigate attacks with physical access If your device is incompatible or not encrypted, you can skip this limitation manually. Please refer to the XDA post for details. To uninstall and remove Insular completely, please first "Destroy Insular" in Settings - Setup - Click the recycle-bin icon besides Insular. If you have already uninstalled Insular app, please "Remove work profile" in your device "Settings - Accounts". PERMISSIONS DEVICE-ADMIN: Device administrator privilege is required to create the Insular space (work profile), which serves as the fundamental functionality of Insular. It will be explicitly requested for your consent. PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS: Required to correctly recognize the running state of apps. It will be explicitly requested for your consent. We will never collect any data and Insular have no Internet permission. Please read our privacy policy for more details. Differences from Island all blobs (gms, crashlytics, etc) are removed to comply with F-droid's policy Internet access of this app is removed because we just don't need it All features are preserved and will be synced upon Island's updates
Port Authority
A handy systems and security-focused tool, Port Authority is a very fast port scanner. Port Authority also allows you to quickly discover hosts on your network and will display useful network information about your device and other hosts.One of the fastest port scanners with host discovery on the market! Host discovery is typically performed in 3 seconds. If the device you’re scanning drops packets, it takes less than 10 seconds to scan 1000 ports. If the device you’re scanning rejects packets, it takes about ~30 seconds seconds to scan all 65,535 ports!Port Authority has no ads and will never have ads. It requires extremely limited permissions since it only needs to interact with your network. The internals are designed to take advantage of today’s modern phones with multiple cores to ensure you can scan your network as fast as possible.
| Feature | Insular | Port Authority |
|---|---|---|
| License | Apache-2.0 | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-Droid | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid |
| Categories | Password ManagerProductivity | Password ManagerProductivity |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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