DontKillMyApp: Make apps work

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About this app

The official DontKillMyApp app is here - make apps finally work properly even if you do not own a Pixel.

Helps you set up your phone background tasks so that your apps can finally work for YOU even when not looking at the screen right now.

See how is your phone doing and test different settings with DontKillMyApp benchmark.

Features:
• DKMA benchmark: Measure how aggressively is your phone killing background apps
• Guides: Get actionable steps to overcome most background process restrictions
• Make a change:️ Help smartphones stay smart by sharing your benchmark report to dontkillmyapp.com

DontKillMyApp is a benchmark tool to see how well does your phone support background processing. You can measure before setting up your phone, then go through the setup guides and benchmark again to see how much has your phone been slacking in the background.

You can share your report through the app to the maintainers of the dontkillmyapp.com website who compile it and base the overall negative score on it.

How does the benchmark work? (Technical!)

The app starts a foreground service with a wake lock and schedules repetitive task on the main thread, a custom thread executor and schedules regular alarms (AlarmManager.setExactAndAllowWhileIdle). Then it calculates executed vs. expected. That's it!

For more details check the code. The app is open source available at https://github.com/urbandroid-team/dontkillmy-app

This app is open source and this project is maintained by volunteers who care about the Android ecosystem, feel the current pain and want to make it better.

Special thanks to Doki (github.com/doubledotlabs/doki).
Benchmark & fix reliability of background tasks on your phone to make apps work
Updated on
Jan 28, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

14.2K reviews
Carol
April 5, 2021
I finally tried a short benchmark test, which delivered a result of 100%. I've done reading on how to go into Settings to keep apps running. So far l'm pleased & learning new things. I need my multiple GPS, navigation, and topo mapping apps to work all the time (w/out "sleeping") for safety in the field, and this should let me periodically check on that. As well continuing to learn the new Android system idiosyncrasies. Great app!
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Bob Findler
July 3, 2022
Unclear what actually transpired. 🤔 I ran the App overnight, while I slept. My Huawei Mate 20 was disconnected from it's USB-C charger (as recommended). There was zero usage (as recommended) while asleep for the duration of the 'Benchmark'. In the morning, results showed 100% in 3 categories having been processed. Yet, there was zero information provided as to the results found during any of those 3 categories processed. As a consequence, I have no idea what transpired let alone improved. = 3*
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Petr Nálevka (Urbandroid)
July 4, 2022
Hello Bob, the app schedules series of background tasks and alarms, and then evaluates the expected vs. executed. 100% means the phone executed all tasks, lower percentage means some form of restrictions. You can read more in (⁝) → How it works, or at https://dontkillmyapp.com/, where you also find guides how to fix it on your phone.
Josh
April 14, 2021
Very useful app, showed me that the only way to stop all battery meddling was to turn battery optimisation off on those important apps like alarms. Also helped me turn off all the Samsung 'battery saving' settings. I've noticed no decreased in battery life and more of my apps actually work properly now so thank you! Score went from 52% -> 57% -> 100% after tweaking all the settings.
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What’s new

Android 16 target SDK, Material Expressive 3 redesign, exact alarm scheduling permission handling, better running benchmark handling