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Direct APK download

Download MobileTracking APK for Android

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This is the direct download of the MobileTracking family app for Android, straight from us rather than through a store. It is the same build, signed by the same key, and it is meant for one job: to be installed on your child’s Android phone, with your child told what it does. Read the two lines below, tick the boxes, and the file is yours.

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Download it on their phoneOpen this page in the browser of the Android phone the app is going on, not on yours.
One permission, onceAndroid asks the first time whether the browser may install apps. Allow it and the install carries on.
Nothing is collected yetThe app sits inert until you pair it with a code from your panel. Installing on its own reports nothing.
Why we ask first

A monitoring app should never arrive quietly

The two boxes are not a formality. They are the line between a parental control and something we would not want to be part of.

MobileTracking is built for a phone you are responsible for, used by a child who knows the app is there. The family app is visible on the home screen with its own name and icon, and it shows your child exactly what leaves the device. That design only holds up if the person installing it is the parent or guardian, so we ask you to say so before the file is released, and we ask you to accept the terms at the same time rather than three screens later.

Installing monitoring software on an adult’s phone without their knowledge is unlawful in most places and is not something this app is for. If that is what you are looking for, this is the wrong download.

What to expect

What Android will say, and why none of it is alarming

Installing from the web looks different from installing from a store. Here is every prompt, in the order it appears.

“This type of file can harm your device”

Chrome shows this line for every APK, regardless of what it contains, because a file from the web has not been through a store review. Tap Download anyway. The file is served over HTTPS from this site and its SHA-256 fingerprint is printed beside the button, so you can confirm you got the file we published.

“Allow this browser to install unknown apps”

Android will not let any app install another without a one-time, per-app permission. Turn it on for your browser, install, and switch it back off afterwards if you prefer. Nothing about MobileTracking depends on leaving it on.

Play Protect wants to scan the app

Let it. Google scans anything installed from outside the Play Store, the check takes a few seconds, and a clean result is what you should see.

The download stopped part way

Open your browser’s downloads list and press resume. The link supports partial downloads, so it picks up from where it stopped rather than starting over. The link stays alive for six hours; after that, tick the boxes again for a fresh one.

Nothing happened when I tapped the button

Some browsers block a download that starts on its own. Tap the download button on this page directly, and check your notification shade — it may already be running.

My child has an iPhone

The family app is Android only. Your parent panel works fine from an iPhone, but the phone being looked after has to be an Android device.

The download page open on a child's Android phone with the Download APK button, and callouts explaining where the file goes
What the download looks like on the phone it is going on: one button, then the file in Downloads a few seconds later.
After it installs

Four steps and you are done

The install is the easy half. Pairing is what makes the app do anything at all.

1On their phone

Open the app and read the first screen together

The first thing the family app shows is not a login box but a plain-English list of what a parent can switch on and what the app will never do. Read it with your child. It is the two minutes that decides whether this feels like care or like surveillance.

The child app screen listing what is collected and what is never collected
2On your panel

Create a pairing code

Sign in to your panel on any browser, open the child you added, and press Create a pairing code. You get six characters, big enough to read across a table. The code is single use and expires in about fifteen minutes.

The pairing screen in the parent panel showing a six-character code
3On their phone

Type the code in

Enter the six characters on the child’s phone and confirm. The two devices recognise each other in a couple of seconds. There is no silent link and no way to pair a phone that is not in the room.

The child app asking for the pairing code from the other phone
4On their phone

Grant the permissions, together

Each switch maps to one feature and nothing else. Two matter more than the rest: choose Allow all the time for location, and exclude the app from battery optimisation, or Android will put it to sleep and your data will arrive in gaps.

The child app permission screen with switches for location, screen time and notifications
Prefer the store? If Google Play is available on the phone, install from there instead — updates arrive on their own and there is no one-time permission to grant. The direct APK exists for phones where Play is unavailable, restricted, or simply not the way you want to do it.

Set up your panel while it downloads

Create your free account and add your child now, so the pairing code is ready by the time the app finishes installing.

Next: the full setup walkthrough, what sideloading an APK actually means, or what your child sees in the child app.