Insular
Isolate your Big Brother apps
- Developer
- proletarius101
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Package
com.oasisfeng.island.fdroid- Category
- App Manager, Security, System
- Latest version
- 6.4.2-d46911c9 · Aug 7, 2025
- Minimum Android
- Android 8.1
Screenshots
Description
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
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
All versions
| Version | Released | Minimum Android | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4.2-d46911c9 | Aug 7, 2025 | Android 8.1 | 2.9 MB |
| 6.4-66cd8034 | May 20, 2024 | Android 8.1 | 2.9 MB |
| 6.3-4f363088 | Mar 5, 2024 | Android 8.1 | 2.9 MB |
| 6.3-e46a1948 | Feb 11, 2024 | Android 8.1 | 2.9 MB |
| 6.0.5-6f72adc7 | Jun 1, 2022 | Android 7.0 | 2.7 MB |
| 6.0.5-43c525bd | Apr 28, 2022 | Android 7.0 | 2.7 MB |
| 6.0.5-9859c283 | Mar 4, 2022 | Android 8.1 | 2.6 MB |
| 6.0.4-7d3bbc7c | Feb 22, 2022 | Android 8.1 | 2.6 MB |
| 6.0.3-0abb0c15 | Feb 22, 2022 | Android 8.1 | 2.6 MB |
| 6.0.3-7cf8202b | Feb 20, 2022 | Android 8.1 | 2.6 MB |
| 6.0.2-f615cf58 | Feb 6, 2022 | Android 8.1 | 2.6 MB |
| 6.0-7771b196 | Jan 27, 2022 | Android 8.1 | 2.6 MB |
| 5.5.1-0e1b5b1d | Jan 21, 2022 | Android 8.1 | 2.6 MB |
| 5.5.1-c37b25e9 | Jan 5, 2022 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.5.1-40729b7f | Jan 2, 2022 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.5-404b5a48 | Sep 29, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.5-4b104c42 | Sep 9, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.5-cc477d99 | Jul 26, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.5-e61328e3 | Jul 20, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.4.3-ee1cec6a | Jun 1, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.4-bbca1958 | May 20, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.3-da5d93e4 | May 5, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2.1 MB |
| 5.3-4cac321f | Apr 14, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2.1 MB |
| 5.1.3-6fcbe182 | Mar 14, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2.1 MB |
| 5.1.3-42de5a1a | Mar 1, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2.1 MB |
| 5.1.3-689c8c20 | Mar 1, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.1.2-d815bc83 | Jan 12, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.1.2-f60c851c | Jan 9, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.1.2-a9e15f6f | Jan 1, 2021 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.1.2-87f1b7e9 | Dec 27, 2020 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.1.2-42172be8 | Dec 24, 2020 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
| 5.1.2 | Dec 9, 2020 | Android 8.1 | 2 MB |
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