TinyKit

Useful Android tweaks in one clean menu. No root, powered by Shizuku.

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TinyKit puts dozens of hidden Android settings, privacy controls and system tools in one place: fake permissions, deleted-file recovery, Quick Settings tiles and more. It uses Shizuku to get shell-level access without rooting your phone.

• No root. Everything runs through Shizuku with ADB-level permissions.
• Nothing in the background by default. No services, no wake-locks. TinyKit only works while it is open, or when you tap one of its tiles or its widget. One optional switch (off unless you turn it on) keeps a small service running so a newly installed app is blocked the moment it appears.
• No ads, no analytics, no tracking. It only goes online when you check for updates (GitHub, by tap or optionally when TinyKit opens) or open Network info (public IP lookup).
• Small. About 360 KB, with a single dependency (the Shizuku API).
• Reversible. Every change is a standard system setting or app-op, and you undo it from the same screen.

The interface uses a pure black (AMOLED) theme, or a high-contrast light one, and a bottom bar with five sections: Shizuku · Privacy · Apps · System · Info. A search bar on the home screen finds any tool. It is available in English, Spanish and Russian.

What's new

• Banking mode. One switch (and a Quick Settings tile) turns Developer options, USB debugging and Wireless debugging off and stops Shizuku, so banking apps that refuse to run with them on will start. Turn it off and everything comes back as it was.
• Deep sleep profiles that work on Android 16 / ColorOS. Each Doze timing is written on its own, so the ones a phone refuses no longer stop the rest.
• Extra dim safety. Its strength is capped, and unless you press Keep it turns itself off, so a black screen fixes itself.
• TinyFolder (Secure folder or plain work profile) only shows its launcher icon when there is a real work profile.
• Set a permission for every app in one tap. In Permissions by type, pick a permission and set Real, Fake or Off for all the apps listed, or only the ones a search shows.
• Start Shizuku over adb on the network now also tries port 50000.
• Send feedback from the Info tab opens a ready-made GitHub issue.
• Russian translation and a high-contrast Light theme.

Every release is listed, with its changes, on the releases page.

Contents

• 🎭 Fake permissions
• What's new
• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• How it works
• Documentation
• Building from source
• Contributing
• License

🎭 Fake permissions

Give an app the permission it insists on, without giving it your data.

Some apps refuse to work until you grant a permission they don't need. Android only lets you allow (the app gets your data) or deny (the app knows, and complains). TinyKit adds a third choice:

App sees App gets 🟩 Real Granted Your real data 🟦 Fake Granted Nothing: empty contacts, no location, silent mic 🟥 Off Denied Nothing How: Fake grants the runtime permission, then sets the matching app-op to ignore: pm grant <pkg> android.permission.READ_CONTACTS appops set --uid <pkg> READ_CONTACTS ignore The app's permission check passes, but Android quietly returns empty results instead of throwing an error, so the app carries on as if you simply had no contacts. Works for location, camera, microphone, contacts, calendar, call log, phone, SMS, storage, body sensors, physical activity and notifications. Also controls hidden app-ops that Android's Settings never shows: clipboard read and write, background running, wake locks, overlays, usage access, all-files access, foreground services and vibration. Survives reboots and needs nothing running. Tap Real to undo. Read the full guide →

Per-app permissions Hidden app-ops

Find it under Apps → App permissions.

Features

Shizuku

Tool	What it does
Start / Stop Shizuku	Starts and stops Shizuku from inside TinyKit. If you have set Shizuku's auth token (in Shizuku's settings), TinyKit talks to Shizuku directly. Stop closes Shizuku fully, so a Watchdog can't start it straight back up. Without the token, Start goes through Termux if you have it (TinyKit copies one command for you to paste in Termux once, which sets everything up; after that the script runs in the background), and otherwise uses TinyKit's own adb client, the same three ways shizuku-termux does but with nothing else installed: root, adb over the network if it is on, or Wireless debugging (Android 11+), where it pairs once with a code you type into a notification and after that one tap starts Shizuku, switching Wireless debugging on by itself. Once it has worked, Start by itself (off until you switch it on) starts Shizuku again after a restart and when you open TinyKit, quietly. Without root, Android 10 and older need adb tcpip 5555 (or 50000, which TinyKit tries too) from a computer once per restart: Android allows nothing else, and TinyKit says so. Works with the standard Shizuku app and its forks.
Search	Find any TinyKit setting or tool from the top of the home screen.

Quick Settings tiles

Add any of these from System → TinyKit tiles. On Android 13 and newer, adding one takes a single tap. Most of them keep working with Shizuku stopped. There are 23 tiles in all. All tiles →

Shizuku on/off	Screenshot	Screen record	Caffeine
Developer options	USB debugging	Hide dev options	Sensors off
Grayscale	Extra dim	Ad-block DNS	Mic & camera off
Screen timeout	Clear caches	Free RAM	Close app
Banking mode	Internet block	HW overlays off	Force dark

And Work profile, Deep sleep and Audio mixer.

Privacy

Tool	What it does
Analytics & telemetry	Turns off Huawei's User Experience Programme, its background diagnostics apps and HiCloud, and limits Google ad personalisation. Your Huawei ID sign-in is never touched.
All sensors off	Blocks every sensor, including motion, microphone and camera, for all apps. It works like the hidden Sensors off developer tile.
Block internet per app	Cuts chosen apps off Wi-Fi and mobile data (Android 14+) with Android's own per-app firewall, or blocks everything except the apps you allow. Nothing runs in the background unless you turn on Run in the background: the system enforces it, and TinyKit puts it back after a restart as soon as Shizuku is running.
Shut Up	Pick apps (banking apps, games) that refuse to run with Developer options or USB or Wireless debugging on. While one is open they look off, and they come back when you leave it. Off by default; turning it on also turns on Run in the background, which it needs.
Clipboard guard	Stops chosen apps from reading what you copy, even while they're open.
Saved Wi-Fi networks	Lists saved networks with their passwords, with search. Share any network as a QR code, export them all to a file and import them on another phone.
Send feedback	Info tab > TinyKit. Write a feature request, bug report or question and it opens as a ready-made GitHub issue in your browser (you press Submit; TinyKit sends nothing itself).
Banking mode	One switch (and a Quick Settings tile) for banking apps that refuse to run with developer options or debugging on: turns Developer options, USB debugging and Wireless debugging off and stops Shizuku, so the apps start. Turn it off and everything comes back as it was, and Shizuku starts again. It needs Shizuku once, to give TinyKit access to those settings.
More	Hide developer options · Ad-blocking DNS · Stop background scanning

Apps

Tool	What it does
App permissions	Set each permission and hidden app-op for each app to Real, Fake or Off, one at a time or all at once. Permissions by type shows which apps have a permission and sets Real, Fake or Off for every app in the list (or just the ones a search leaves) in one tap. See above.
Default apps	Choose the launcher, browser, phone, SMS and assistant apps, and see which app opens each file type.
Work profile	Makes a work profile in one tap (no setup screens, no extra app inside it) and manages it like Shelter, Island and Samsung's Secure Folder together: separate copies of apps, freeze one or all, auto-freeze chosen apps, a PIN of its own that locks it, auto-lock when the screen is off or after a restart, pause (switch or Quick Settings tile), launcher shortcuts that unfreeze and open an app, install APKs straight into it.
Deep sleep	Makes the phone doze sooner after the screen goes off and wake up less often, with Comatose's Light, Moderate, High and Extreme profiles. Writes where your Android version reads them, checks Android is really using it, and can doze right now. A Quick Settings tile cycles the profiles. Phones that refuse some of the timings (Android 16, ColorOS) still get the ones they accept, and TinyKit says which it couldn't set.
Running services	Lists every running service with its app and whether it is foreground, started or bound. Stop one, stop its app, or block it for good (and unblock it later).
Audio mixer	A volume slider for each app, so you can turn YouTube down and leave your music up, with the phone's media volume at the top. Shows the apps open now, and every app below with search, including apps in the work profile. Volumes stick for each new video or song. Has a Quick Settings tile. Real sliders on Android 8+: exact on Android 13+, audio effects before that.
TinyFolder	A front door to the work profile, in two looks: Secure folder (Samsung-style: its own launcher icon that opens the work apps behind your lock screen, hides them from the launcher when you want, and locks again when you leave) or the plain Work profile. The icon only appears when there is a real work profile.
Share menu pins	Pins the apps you share to most in the top row of Android's share menu, so there is no scrolling to find them (Android 10+).
Hide apps	Removes apps from the launcher, and they stop running until you restore them.
Unused apps	Lists apps by how long since you last used them.
Storage by app	Shows how much space each app uses.
Recent access	Shows which apps used the camera, microphone, location, contacts or clipboard, and when.
Mixed audio	Lets several apps play audio at once, or mutes a single app. Android's audio system enforces this, so TinyKit doesn't need to keep running.
Debloater	Removes apps your phone came with, for your user only, with a safety rating for each (Recommended, Advanced, Expert, Unsafe). Restore any of them later.
Special access	Install unknown apps, draw over apps, modify settings, all files and usage access, per app.
App language	Gives any app its own language (Android 13+).
Trackers in apps	Finds the ad and analytics libraries inside each app. Tap one to cut that app off the internet (Android 14+).
Notification channels	Block one kind of notification from an app (Messages, Promotions…) instead of all of them. Android 8+.
Install options	Allow downgrade, grant all permissions or allow test-only apps for the APK installer.
Installed with TinyKit	The apps the installer put on, with a remove button. Stores nothing: read from Android's own records.
Install APK files	Installs .apk, .apks, .xapk and .apkm files, including apps split into parts and game data. Streams the files, installs only the parts your phone needs.
More	Running apps (sort by memory or CPU, stop one or several) · Running services · Stop background activity (full Restricted mode) · Keep apps alive · Back up an app as an APK

System

Tool	What it does
Edit quick panel	Reorder, add and remove tiles in an editor laid out like the real panel.
Run a command	Runs any command as the shell user through Shizuku.
Recover deleted files	Searches every recycle bin and trash folder (Gallery's recycle bin, .File_Recycle, .fvTrash, Android's .trashed-* files, LOST.DIR and thumbnail caches). It shows thumbnails and copies files to Download/TinyKit/Recovered, leaving the originals in place.
Settings backup & restore	Saves all system settings to a file and restores them from it.
Force dark on all apps	Turns on Android's built-in force-dark for apps that have no dark mode.
Disable HW overlays	Composes everything with the GPU, like the developer option, and keeps it on after a restart.
Animation speed	Turns system animations off, or makes them faster or slower.
Advanced reboot	Reboots normally, or into recovery or the bootloader, or does a soft (userspace) reboot.
Speed-up widget	A home screen widget: one tap frees RAM and clears app caches without opening TinyKit, and shows how much it freed.
Speed up phone	One tap deletes every app's cache, closes cached apps, frees and compacts memory and trims storage. Apps you're using stay open. Works without Shizuku on Android 13 and older.
Clean & speed	Clear all app caches · Optimize apps · Trim storage
Network & battery	Free hotspot · Turn off mobile data while on Wi-Fi

Info & logs

Tool	What it does
Device info	Phone info · Charging info · Temperatures (every thermal sensor) · Device IDs
Network info	Shows IP addresses, Wi-Fi details, DNS and your public IP. Open router settings opens your default gateway's page.
Usage logs	Screen time · Battery usage · Wake-ups · Vibration log, as plain readable lists
Diagnostics	App log · Crash log · Report a problem · Send feedback · What's new · Check for updates (by tap, or optionally on start with a popup) · About

The feature reference lists the exact command behind every tool.

Requirements

Android	7.0 (API 24) or newer
Shizuku	thedjchi's fork (recommended) or the original

Installation

1. Install and start Shizuku.
2. Download TinyKit-<version>.apk from the latest release and install it.
3. Open TinyKit and tap Allow when it asks for Shizuku access.

The getting started guide covers each way to start Shizuku.

Install with Obtainium

Or in Obtainium choose Add App and paste https://github.com/Order52/tinykit. Releases are signed with the same key as the GitHub APK, so Obtainium updates it in place.

How it works

Shizuku runs a small process with ADB (shell user) privileges, and TinyKit sends commands to it through the Shizuku API. Every tool is a standard Android mechanism, such as:

• System settings (settings put global|secure|system …)
• App-ops (appops set …)
• Package manager (pm grant, pm revoke, pm disable-user, …)
• System services (cmd role, cmd sensor_privacy, cmd statusbar, dumpsys …, svc power …)

TinyKit doesn't patch the system or modify system files, so every change can be undone from TinyKit or Android's own settings. The first time Shizuku is available, TinyKit grants itself WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, so its settings tiles keep working when Shizuku is stopped. Architecture →

Documentation

Getting started	Setting up Shizuku and TinyKit
Fake permissions	The full guide, with commands and how to verify them
Feature reference	Every tool and the command it runs
Quick Settings tiles	All 23 tiles
Privacy & security	What TinyKit can access, stores and sends
Troubleshooting & FAQ	Common problems and Huawei notes
Architecture · Building · Contributing	For developers

Building from source

Prerequisites: JDK 21 and the Android SDK (compile SDK 34).

git clone https://github.com/Order52/tinykit.git
cd tinykit
export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk21
./gradlew assembleRelease

The APK is written to app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk. See Building for signing and releases.

Contributing

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome. Please open an issue and include your Android version, your device or ROM, and your Shizuku version. Pull requests are welcome too. Please keep TinyKit small: no background services, no new dependencies, and every change must be reversible. See Contributing. Each push is checked by CI (build, lint, unit tests and an emulator run on five Android versions), and pushing a v* tag builds, signs and publishes the release.

Translations: TinyKit is available in English, Spanish (Latin America, still being checked by a native speaker) and Russian. A translation is one plain text file, so adding or fixing a language is easy. See Translating TinyKit.

License

TinyKit is released under the MIT License.

Made by Ali Alakbar.