The application cloner is pretty much self-explanatory as it means it clones the apps. But there are a lot of misconceptions about it, I have heard them myself personally from people who are not much in technology.
What exactly does an App Cloner do?
In simple English, the App Cloner is an app itself, which you can install on your Android mobile (because it is rare that iOS applications are cloned) When it will give you a list of all the applications installed on your mobile.
Now, each app has a unique signature in its APK file, which prevents installing apps using the same signature.
So you cannot install and keep two instances of the same application. There are people who would like to use two apps to use two accounts.
And that’s what App Cloner does. It modifies the APK file of the app so that it can be easily installed as a separate app available in the app.
And to differentiate it from the original app, it also gives you the option to change the app icon. Such as, you can rotate it, flip it over, change the color or even change the icon of the app itself.
The purpose of the application cloner is to allow you to run multiple instances of the same application.
It is about solving a problem that many people face. People who want to use separate accounts. For example, one for personal use, one for business, although there are also many other use cases.
Many Android smartphone manufacturers have understood this and natively offer solutions that allow users to use multiple instances of the same application.
Benefits of using App Cloner
Just like we saw above, the App Cloner allows you to clone an existing app and make changes to the icon, making it easy to recognize which app is which.
Basically, the App Cloner gives you more control over the copy or second instance of the same app you are using.
Disadvantages of using App Cloner
Although, if the mobile phone manufacturer has already integrated similar functionality in the smartphone, the Cloner App does not offer anything more, except to give you the possibility to change the color of the icon of the application.
You will potentially lose space on your mobile by keeping the App Cloner installed.
Alternative to App Cloner
The alternative to the application cloner would be the native functionality available in the smartphone, if it exists, although it manufactures and begins to offer this functionality.
Even if your smartphone does not have this type of functionality, there are other apps such as Parallel Space, which solve the problem of using multiple instances of one app. We compared App Cloner with Parallel Space in a dedicated article that you can read here