X Phone Cleaner 1.0.1

Your phone says storage is almost full, but you cannot see what is eating the space.

Most cleaner apps that promise to fix it come with ads, fake "phone is in danger" warnings and trackers that send your data elsewhere.

X Phone Cleaner takes the quiet route: it finds real junk files, shows you every one, and deletes only what you approve.

It comes from xcodecpack.com, the makers of X Codec Pack, and it has no internet permission at all. It cannot show ads or send anything off your phone, even if it wanted to.

What X Phone Cleaner Actually Cleans

Tap Scan for junk and the app sorts what it finds into clear groups. Each group shows its size, and you can open it to see the files inside.

• Thumbnail cache. Small preview pictures your gallery keeps for faster scrolling, which Android simply makes again when needed.
• Temporary and log files. Leftover .tmp, .log and crash dump files that apps forget to tidy up.
• APK installer files. Install files (.apk, .apks and .xapk) that stay in Downloads after the app is already installed.
• Empty files and folders. Files with nothing in them and folders with nothing inside.
• Large files of 100 MB or more. Big videos, archives and downloads, listed by size and never ticked for you.

Above the junk list, a storage overview shows how much space your images, videos, audio and documents take. When it finishes, the app tells you exactly how much space it freed.

What It Will Not Touch

Standard folders such as DCIM (your camera photos), Download and Music are never removed, even when they are empty. App data inside the Android folder is left alone too.

Nothing is deleted until you confirm. Android has no recycle bin for these files, so a quick look through the list before you tap Clean is worth the ten seconds.

The Honest Bit About App Caches

Since Android 6, no app is allowed to clear other apps' caches on its own, whatever its advert says. Cleaners that claim otherwise are either showing a fake number or quietly asking for far more access than they need.

X Phone Cleaner says this plainly. Its App caches button opens Android's own "clear app caches" dialog, and you confirm it there.

Why "No Internet" Matters

A cleaner needs to read your files to do its job, so it should not also be able to send them anywhere. We checked the 1.0.1 APK, and these are the only permissions it asks for.

You can check any APK's permissions yourself, before you install it, with our free APK Checker.

How to Install the APK

1. Download the APK on your phone. If Chrome warns that the file may be harmful, tap Download anyway.
2. Open the file. Android asks you to allow Install unknown apps for Chrome, so turn it on, go back and tap Install.
3. If Play Protect says the app is from an unknown developer, tap More details, then Install anyway.
4. Open X Phone Cleaner, tap Allow access, switch on All files access, then go back and tap Scan for junk.

These warnings appear for every app installed from outside Google Play. Our guide on how to install an APK safely explains what each one means.

What You Need

A phone or tablet running Android 8.0 or newer, and about 10 MB of free space for the app itself. It runs on both ARM and Intel-based devices.

Not sure which Android version you have? Our Android version history shows how to check and what each release changed. The app is free, and the menus are in English.

When Junk Is Not the Problem

If the storage overview shows that videos and photos fill your phone, cleaning junk will only buy a little time. Move big files off the phone instead.

A portable SSD on Android holds whole film libraries, and VLC for Android plays them straight from the drive.

To make a full copy before a big clear-out, Samsung owners can use Smart Switch Mobile. Cloud storage such as TeraBox is another place to park old videos.

Chat apps are often the biggest hidden space users. WhatsApp has its own Manage storage screen that finds large forwarded videos far better than any cleaner can.

Who Should Look Elsewhere

• You want leftovers from uninstalled apps or duplicate photos found. SD Maid SE names which app each leftover file belonged to and also hunts duplicates.
• Your phone runs Android 7 or older. X Phone Cleaner needs Android 8.0 or newer.
• You would rather wait for Google Play. The Play Store version is planned, and it updates itself without the extra install prompts.
• It is your Windows PC that is full. BleachBit is the free, ad-free cleaner for that job.

Looking for more? Browse our free Android apps, and if a download comes as an .xapk file, here is how to install an XAPK.

Quick questions

Download X Phone Cleaner 1.0.1 and see what is really filling your phone, or share how it went if you have tried it.