As a home experimenter who has published online (forums, etc.) more than 50 personal projects in the past 10 years, I do not find the “10% chance” is representative of my style.

Most other Android apps from ZipoApps also include ads and/or in-app purchases. , and the Google Play Store listings for some apps like Simple SMS Messenger already show a “Contains ads ...

Simple Mobile Tools is well known in the Android community for its open-source applications that provide viable alternatives to mainstream software. Its suite ranges from basic contact, dialer ...

Simple Mobile Tools has been sold to Israeli app publisher ZipoApps. Users are worried that the acquisition will lead to advertisements on Simple apps and that they’ll no longer remain open source.

Simple Mobile Tools says the phone comes with a 2-year warranty and will receive at least three years of software updates (it’s unclear if those are security updates or major OS updates though).