AirGuard - Tracking Protection 4+
Find AirTags, SmartTags, Tile
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
AirGuard identifies tiny-trackers, like Samsung SmartTags or Tiles, that are following you and forwarding your location to a third-party.
If a tracker is detected will get a notification.
The iPhone is able to warn you if someone uses an AirTag to track you, but there is no such protection against Samsung SmartTags or Tile trackers.
AirGuard adds this layer of protection so you can feel safe in your daily-life.
With the scan option, you can always scan your surroundings and discover hidden trackers. You can search for a specific tracker and it tells you how close you get to it. When you reach 100% you found the device.
If no one is trying to track you, the app will never bother you.
How does it work?
AirGuard uses Bluetooth scans of your iPhone to find Samsung SmartTags and Tile trackers. Every tracker that is found will be saved locally on your device.
Whenever a tracker gets detected multiple times the app will recognize this. It compares the locations where the tracker has been detected.
If a tracker is detected at least 3 times at different locations (to make sure its not your neighbour) the app sends you a notification.
All this happens locally on your device and the private information, like location, tracker ids, etc will never leave your device.
Who are we?
We are part of the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. This project is part of a scientific research from the Secure Mobile Networking Lab. Our goal is to protect privacy and to find out how many people are opposed to tracking.
In this app you can voluntarily participate in a research study that will share anonymized data with us.
This app will never get monetized by showing ads, in-app purchases or anything else. It's free and open-source.
Our privacy policy can be found here:
https://tpe.seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de/privacy-policy.html
This app is open-source:
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard
Disclaimer
AirTag, FindMy and iOS are trademarks of Apple Inc.
We are not working together with Apple Inc.
Samsung SmartTag is a trademark of Samsung Electronic
What’s New
Version 1.0.3
This version includes some bug fixes and imporvements
- False notifications triggered by less seen Tile trackers should not occur anymore
- Detecting AirPods more accurately, they are now distinguished with the names "left" and "right" AirPod
Ratings and Reviews
Great product, but please investigate false positive in review
I use this product to scan my cars I rent for AirTags. I have 3 Teslas, all of them emit an AirTag signal, however there isn’t an AirTag inside.
The signal jumps up and down rapidly and it will not connect because it doesn’t exist. I’ve scanned every Tesla in the supermarket parking lot and all 7 emit the same false positive. Every Tesla shows a high strength AirTag signal, it just recently started with your update.
The original version of this iOS app did not have the issue, can you please investigate?
Tag
I don't know this has to know my every location if I'm home or somewhere private
If feel like this app is spying on me instead of helping me. Putting my location when using the app should have been enough so I don't think I going to keep it.
App Privacy
The developer, Technische Universität Darmstadt, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
- Size
- 3.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © Secure Mobile Networking Lab 2022-2023
- Price
- Free