What is CheatDroid?
CheatDroid is an Android app that opens what other apps and games store on your phone and lets you change it. It started as a shared preferences and SQLite editor for rooted phones, the tool behind “Android cheats” on this site. Since 4.0 it also edits DataStore and hex, scans a running game’s memory, and records what an app sends over the network.
Who it’s for
- Players who want more coins, lives or levels in an offline game.
- Developers debugging their own apps: change a saved value and see what the app does with it.
- Anyone curious what an app stores about them. It’s often more than you’d think.
- Testers looking for weak spots: values a game trusts the phone with, keys left in an APK.
- People who forgot a password that an app kept in plain text.
How it works
Most games and apps save small things in shared preferences, plain XML files inside the phone. A puzzle game might keep your level there, another your highscore or your coins. CheatDroid finds those files for every installed app, shows each value with its type, and saves your change back. Databases, DataStore files and anything else in the app’s folder open in their own editors.
Values that only exist while a game runs, like health in a fight, never reach a file. For those there’s the memory scanner. And if a game keeps your coins on its server, no app on your phone changes them; the network capture shows you which kind of game you have.
Android keeps every app’s files private, so CheatDroid needs root to reach them. It’s free to try with three saved edits a day; Pro is $14.87 once. To get going, read the guide to hacking Android games.