Intruder selfie Who spying me

Review by eFreeware

A phone left on a desk for a few minutes invites questions. Did someone pick it up? Did they try a few codes before giving up? Most of the time there is no way to know, and that uncertainty is what this app is built around. Intruder selfie Who spying me, from the developer Viticly, is a free Android app in the Photography category that photographs anyone who fails to unlock your phone and records where the attempt happened.

The idea is simple. The app watches what happens at your lock screen. When the wrong password, PIN or pattern is entered, the front camera takes a picture, the location is logged, and you get a notification. The app has been on Google Play since May 2019 and shows over 500,000 installs with a 4.4 average from more than 14,000 ratings, which suggests a settled audience rather than a novelty.

I think the appeal here is evidence. Suspicion about a partner, a roommate, a coworker or a child is uncomfortable to act on, and asking directly rarely settles anything. A photo with a time and a place attached turns a vague worry into something you can look at. The developer pitches the app as a way to find out who has been spying on your phone, and that framing is honest about what it is: a record keeper for your lock screen.

The failed-unlock photo, explained

Everything in this app hangs off one trigger: a failed unlock attempt. A wrong password, PIN or pattern makes the front camera take a shot. The capture happens without the person holding the phone getting a signal that anything has been recorded. That is the part that makes the app useful rather than theatrical. A visible deterrent only works while someone is looking at it.

The photo is not the only thing saved. Each attempt also carries GPS coordinates, so the record shows where the phone was when someone tried to open it. For a phone that stays at home or in an office, that mostly confirms the obvious. For a phone that travels, it adds a second layer: a failed attempt logged at an address you do not recognize is a different kind of information than one logged at your own kitchen table.

The app is meant to save only the attempts that come from someone else. You will fumble your own code occasionally, and without a filter, your gallery of intruders fills up with pictures of you.

The features around the core capture

A capture is only useful if you find out about it, so the app sends an instant notification when someone tries to get in. That turns the app from an archive you check occasionally into something closer to an alert. The developer also notes that the app restarts itself after a phone reboot, which matters more than it sounds.

It is also presented as theft protection. If your phone is taken, the failed attempts that follow produce photos and location records that document who tried to open it and roughly where. That is not the same as recovering a stolen phone, and the developer does not claim it is, but it is a form of evidence that a lock screen alone does not produce.

The developer compares the app to WTMP with GPS tracking included, which places it in a known category of phone-intrusion detectors. An update from December 2025 lists bug fixes and performance improvements, so the app is still being maintained.

What the app asks of you

The app is free to install and supported by ads, and there are no in-app purchases. For a utility you might open only when something has happened, that trade is easier to accept than it would be in an app you use every day, though it is still a trade.

There is also a practical limit worth thinking about before you install it. The app documents attempts at your lock screen. It is not a general monitoring tool and does not watch anything else. What it does is narrow and specific, and that narrowness is what makes it easy to understand.

Getting useful results from it

The best way to treat this app is as a log you check after something has happened, not a feed you watch. A failed attempt at two in the morning while you are asleep is worth a look. A single failed attempt at your desk while you were in a meeting probably is not, and the app will accumulate both. Reviewing the record with that in mind keeps it useful instead of noisy.

Notifications are the part I would pay attention to first. If they are arriving reliably, the app is doing its job quietly in the background and you can forget about it until one shows up. If you find yourself opening the app to check whether it is still working, that is a sign you have not yet trusted it, and it is worth confirming the setup before relying on it.

If it is doing what the developer intends, your own failed attempts drop out of the record and what remains is more meaningful.

Finally, think about what you would do with the result. The app gives you a photo, a time and a place. That is enough to settle a question you already had, and it is worth being clear with yourself about which question that is before you start collecting records.

A narrow tool that does one job

Intruder selfie Who spying me does one thing and does it in a way that is easy to explain: it photographs anyone who fails your lock screen and tells you where it happened. The combination of a front-camera photo, GPS coordinates and an instant alert covers the three things you would want to know.

It is free with ads and no in-app purchases, which makes it easy to try without committing to anything. The 4.4 average across more than 14,000 ratings suggests that the people using it are broadly satisfied with what it delivers, and the December 2025 update indicates it is still being looked after.

I would point this at anyone who has a specific, nagging question about their phone and wants a factual answer rather than an argument: a shared apartment, a shared office, a relationship where trust has become a subject, or a phone that spends time in public places. If you want a record of who has been trying to get into your phone, this is built for exactly that, and it asks for very little in return.

What's new in version 3.9

Bug fixes and performance improvements