CashPilot Android is the Android companion app for CashPilot. It detects which passive income apps are installed and running on your phone, without root, and reports them to your CashPilot fleet dashboard.
- One line tells you if every app is running. When something is wrong, the home screen says what and gives you the button to fix it, such as Open for a stopped app.
- Setup explains each permission first. Three short steps, a plain screen before every Android prompt, and you can skip the permissions or the server.
- Test connection is a real test. It sends one report and tells you whether the server answered and accepted your key.
- Reports every 15 minutes through WorkManager, with no permanent notification and no battery exemption request.
- Nothing leaves the phone except to your own server. The public IP lookup is gone.
- Accessibility is tested: 48 dp touch targets, TalkBack labels and order, text at 1.3x size, WCAG AA contrast in the Light and Classic night palettes.
- 10 supported apps.
- In progress: inclusion in F-Droid.
CashPilot Android 1.0 ships alongside CashPilot 2.0 and CashPilot Desktop 1.0. The full list is in the changelog.
- Detects 10 passive income apps: EarnApp, IPRoyal Pawns, MystNodes, Traffmonetizer, Bytelixir, ByteBenefit, Grass, Titan Network, Nodle Cash, Wipter
- Instant detection from each app's ongoing notification (NotificationListenerService)
- Confirms activity from per-app network traffic and recent foreground use (NetworkStatsManager, UsageStatsManager)
- Periodic heartbeats to your server (
POST /api/workers/heartbeat), so phones appear next to Docker workers in the fleet view - Sends data only to your own CashPilot server, and to nothing else
- No root required; Android 8.0 or later
- Download
app-release.apkfrom the latest release and install it. - Grant Notification Access and Usage Access. Turning battery optimisation off for CashPilot is optional and makes late reports less likely; Android can still delay them.
- In Settings, enter your CashPilot server URL and the fleet key (
CASHPILOT_API_KEYon the server). Usehttps://; the app acceptshttp://only for a server on your own network:localhost, a LAN, link-local or Tailscale address (192.168.x.x,10.x.x.x,172.16-31.x.x,169.254.x.x,100.64-127.x.x), or a private name (.local,.lan,.home.arpa,.internal, Tailscale.ts.net).
Needs Android 8.0 (API 26) or later. To report to a server, it needs a reachable CashPilot server, 1.73.2 or newer (including 2.x), or CashPilot Desktop 0.39.6 or newer (including 1.x).
Everything below is on the site, https://geiserx.github.io/CashPilot-android/.
- Getting started: install the APK, the first-run steps, and what a working start looks like
- Usage: the home screen, what each app state means, earnings, settings
- Configuration: every setting, the fleet key and enrollment, heartbeat timing, the app list
- How it works: the three detection APIs, the running rule, what a heartbeat carries, privacy
- Troubleshooting: symptom, cause, fix, and what to put in a bug report
- Development: building, tests, releases, the stack
- Related projects: the CashPilot server, desktop app and integrations