8Super App Manager & Cleaner

Review by eFreeware

Storage fills up quietly. Cached data piles up inside apps you barely open, duplicate photos and videos multiply across folders, and old screenshots sit in the gallery long after the moment has passed. At the same time, most of us have only a vague idea which installed apps can read contacts, send messages or record audio. 8Super App Manager & Cleaner is built to address both of those problems in one place.

The app comes from developer 86Apps and sits in the Tools category on Google Play. It is free to download, carries ads and offers in-app purchases, and it has been installed more than five million times. The average rating stands at 4.5 from over 183,000 ratings, which is a healthy figure for a utility of this type. It first appeared in February 2024 and was updated in late September 2026.

What the permission audit actually tells you

The headline feature is the Apps Manager, which analyzes the apps installed on your device and reports on sensitive permissions they hold. The developer lists the categories it checks, and they are the ones that tend to matter: writing contacts and calendar entries, sending SMS, placing calls, recording audio, reading browser history, drawing over other apps, disabling the keyguard, killing background processes and authenticating accounts, among others. Seeing that list compiled per app is more useful than the permission screen buried in system settings, because it groups the risky items together instead of making you scroll through everything.

What appeals to me here is the framing. The app shows you which apps hold permissions that could be abused and leaves the judgment to you. From there you can uninstall anything you no longer trust. That is a sensible approach for anyone who installs a lot of apps from outside their usual habits and wants a periodic check rather than a permanent security suite running in the background.

The catch is that building the full list requires the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission, which gives the app visibility into everything installed on the device. The developer explains this openly and treats it as a prerequisite for the feature. It is a broad permission, and it is worth understanding that the audit cannot work without it.

Clearing cache without opening every app

Apps Data Cleaner, the second pillar, clears out data that installed apps no longer need. Rather than clearing each app's cache by hand, you get a list of non-system apps with their cache sizes collected in one view, and the cleaning itself is automated. For anyone who has ever tapped through twenty apps in settings just to free a gigabyte, the appeal is obvious.

Automating that job depends on Accessibility Access. The developer is unusually direct about this: the permission is used solely to automate clearing third-party app data, the app is not registered as an accessibility tool for users with disabilities, and the permission is not a requirement to use the rest of the app. Declining it limits this one function and nothing else, which is a reasonable way to structure things. Accessibility access is a serious permission, so I appreciate that the trade-off is stated plainly rather than buried.

If you would rather not grant it, the manual cleaners below still do useful work on their own.

Duplicates, screenshots and the files you forgot about

The rest of the toolkit is a set of targeted cleaners. One finds duplicate photos so you can thin out the gallery. Another does the same for videos, which is where the real space savings usually are. A third removes duplicate contact entries, which tends to accumulate when you switch phones or sync multiple accounts. There is also a cleaner for screenshots, so the grab you took of a parking spot or a recipe does not live on forever.

Two more handle the less visible clutter. The big files cleaner surfaces large items so you can decide what to remove, and the junk cleaner targets leftover files that uninstalled apps leave behind in temporary folders. A system cleaner clears redundant system files, and a memory analysis view shows what is consuming space and where attention is best spent. None of these are novel ideas on their own, but having them under one roof means one install instead of five.

The memory analysis screen is the one I would expect to use first, since it tells you which cleaner is worth running before you start deleting anything.

Setup, permissions and what to expect

Getting the most out of 8Super involves a couple of permission decisions rather than a lengthy setup. The app needs QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES to enumerate installed apps and their permissions; without it, the audit and the cache-size listing have nothing to work from. Accessibility Access is the second, and only the automated data cleaning depends on it. The developer notes that you can decline it and keep using the other functions.

That structure means you can treat the app as a permission auditor on its own, as a manual cleaner on its own, or as both. I would expect most people to grant the package visibility permission first, look through the audit, and then decide about accessibility access once they see how much cache has built up.

Since the app is free with ads and in-app purchases, it is worth going in with the usual expectations for that model. The presence of purchases means the experience is not entirely without cost.

Who gets the most out of it

This is a utility for people who want visibility and control over a phone they have been using for a while. If your storage bar is permanently in the red, or if you have a nagging feeling about which apps can read your messages, 8Super puts both answers in one place. It is also a reasonable fit for anyone who helps family members with their devices and wants a quick way to see what has accumulated.

It is less about ongoing protection and more about periodic housekeeping. There are just tools that inspect what is on the device and clean what you approve. That suits a maintenance routine you run every few weeks rather than something you check daily.

The permission requirements are the main thing to weigh. QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES is broad by design, and accessibility access is a meaningful grant even when it is optional. If those give you pause, the duplicate and junk cleaners still work without the second one.

A tidy-up tool worth keeping installed

8Super App Manager & Cleaner covers a lot of ground for a free app: a permission audit that groups genuinely sensitive access, automated cache clearing, and separate tools for duplicate photos, videos, contacts, screenshots, big files, junk and system files. The developer is upfront about the permissions each part needs, which counts for something in a category where that is often glossed over.

The caveats are the ones that come with the model. Ads and in-app purchases are part of the package, and the most convenient cleaning function asks for accessibility access. Neither is unusual, but both are worth knowing before you install.

If you want a single app to tell you what your installed apps can do and to clear out the clutter they leave behind, this is a well-reviewed option that has been installed widely. If you prefer to keep permissions minimal and clean up manually, the audit tools alone may still justify the space it takes.

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