AirCover Brings Security and Find My Phone to Android

AirCover secures Android phones and tablets, protecting them from the increasing threat of malware. It also adds an Apple Find My Phone style of protection against theft or loss, and costs $20 per year. Thats a competitive subscription price in the growing Android security market.

AirCover (free) compares favorably to Lookout Mobile, one of the most popular Android security apps. Both offer malware protection and the Find My Phone style of theft protection, but LookOut costs ten dollars more per year without adding many features..

The central uses of AirCover include Anti-Virus, Anti-Theft, Privacy and Web Protection. We found that it comes with a fast and simple interface thats pretty easy to use.

Android users can download the free app from the Google Play Store, but theres also a $20 subscription upgrade which adds some significant features. The upgrade adds anti-surveillance. That means it warns the user when an app or service might spy on the user during phone calls or web surfing. The app pops up a warning if one of these potentially risky apps launches.

The premium web protection will keep users safe from phishing, fraud, harmful sites and malware as the user surfs the net. We never saw a warning while using it for a few days, so its hard to know if the app protects well.