Best alternatives for Chinese banned apps for your phone

India has jumped the bandwagon and banned a total of 59 Chinese apps including the popular TikTok, ShareIt, Cam Scanner and ES File Explorer among others. You can also see a couple of games there too including Clash of Kings and Mobile Legends. The reasons listed by the Indian Government remain around the privacy and security of the citizens and protecting their data. While some argue it is due to the border tensions. Regardless, we have always condemned the use of some of these apps due to privacy and security reasons. So here are some of the best alternatives to the top Chinese apps that just got banned.

Cheetah mobile has already been banned from the Play Store on reports of advertisement click fraud on some of their apps like ES File Explorer and CM Browser. Clean master and ES File Explorer are some of the worst apps you can install on your phone. It is absolute bloatware and hogs the memory and battery then do anything else. Same goes for the extremely popular DU Battery Saver. You shouldn’t be using a battery saver app on Android anyway. It has no use for a smartphone. Same goes for many other apps.

So now it is time to uninstall and look at some of the great alternatives to these apps from China.

Alternatives to Chinese Apps on Google Play Store

Chinese App Alternative 1 Alternative 2

ES File Explorer Solid Explorer Files by Google

Clean Master SD maid CCleaner

QuickPic        Google Photos

DU Battery Saver Greenify

Shareit TrebleShot (For Windows) Feem and Snapdrop.net

Mobile Legends Arena of Valor League of Legends (in beta testing)

Cam Scanner Microsoft Lens Adobe Scan

Vault-Hide Gallery Vault-Hide Photos

Mi Video Call Google Meet Jitsi (FOSS)

Cache Cleaner SD maid CCleaner

Photo Wonder PicsArt Adobe Lightroom

Mail Master K9 Mail (FOSS) Aquamail or Samsung Email

UC Browser Google Chrome Microsoft Edge

List of banned Chinese apps

TikTok

Shareit

Kwai

UC Browser

Baidu map

Shein

Clash of Kings

DU battery saver

Helo

Likee

YouCam Makeup

Mi Community

CM Brower

Virus Cleaner

APUS Browser

ROMWE

Club Factory

Newsdog

Beutry Plus

WeChat

UC News

QQ Mail

Weibo

Xender

QQ Music

QQ Newsfeed

Bigo Live

SelfieCity

Mail Master

Parallel Space

Mi Video Call Xiaomi

WeSync

ES File Explorer

Viva Video QU Video Inc

Meitu

Vigo Video

New Video Status

DU Recorder

Vault-Hide

Cache Cleaner DU App studio

DU Cleaner

DU Browser

Hago Play With New Friends

Cam Scanner

Clean Master (Cheetah Mobile)

Wonder Camera

Photo Wonder

QQ Player

We Meet

Sweet Selfie

Baidu Translate

Vmate

QQ International

QQ Security Center

QQ Launcher

U Video

V fly Status Video

Mobile Legends

DU Privacy

By Yash Agarwal

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