About Keep What Lasts

Android apps chosen for staying power, so the room on your phone is spent on things you will still want later.

Why we favour keeping over collecting

Every app you install costs a little space and a little attention. Keep What Lasts leans toward the few that keep paying that back, rather than a long list you will delete in a month.

What makes an app worth keeping

It does its job quietly, behaves the same way each time you open it, and is looked after by a developer who is still around. An app that asks for more and gives less over time loses its place.

No clutter on the page either

Pages here are built ahead of time and kept uncluttered, in the same spirit as a tidy home screen, so there is little to wait for and little to dig through.

Tell us what stayed

Which app has survived every clear-out of your phone? Or which one did you finally remove? Use the contact form and we will take your word into account.

What never makes the cut

Altered installers, lookalikes copied from another developer, and apps that change their behaviour once installed. Nothing like that is worth keeping, so it is never listed.

Who is behind the site

Keep What Lasts is kept by a small group who got tired of cluttered phones and of apps deleted a week after installing them.

We revisit entries now and then, and remove anything that no longer deserves its place.

The best app is the one you stop thinking about and never uninstall.

Keep What Lasts is operated by Celnet Technology Hong Kong, Hong Kong.