BusyBox Android

BusyBox

The fastest, most trusted, and #1 BusyBox installer and uninstaller!

Features & Capabilities

Busybox Pro is on sale now for a limited time only!

Root required for this application!

The fastest, most trusted, and #1 BusyBox installer and uninstaller!

Over 20 million installs and over 100,000 5 Star ratings!

Support for arm and intel based devices, mips support coming soon. (I need a mips device)

Mentioned in the new XDA-Developers book "XDA Developers' Android Hacker's Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Rooting, ROMs and Theming"

Winner of best Utility Software award for Android via Handster.

This is the only installer that is ad free and requires no internet permission!

The source for this application can be found here: https://code.google.com/p/busybox-android/

Featured on the BusyBox website at: http://busybox.net/products.html

The BusyBox source code can be found here: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/

A must have for any rooted phone! Almost EVERY rooted applications needs BusyBox to perform their magic, if you have a rooted phone then you need BusyBox.

Pro version contains Backup feature (for safer installs), uninstall feature, Advance Smart install feature, the ability to hand pick the applets you want, safety check for missing applets on start, and better overall support. The pro version will receive more frequent updates than the free version will.

Please note I did not write BusyBox! I wrote this installer and cross compiled BusyBox for Android. Please see the about menu option for more details or here: www.BusyBox.net

BusyBox is a software application that provides many standard Unix tools, much like the larger (but more capable) GNU Core Utilities. BusyBox is designed to be a small executable for use with the Linux kernel, which makes it ideal for use with embedded devices. It has been self-dubbed "The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux".

Leave this installed if you always want to get the latest version of busybox!

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Stephen (Stericson)
Downloads:
27,795,023
Rating:
4.15
(157,982)
Version:
VARY Last updated: 2020-07-18
Creation date:
2010-06-15
Email:
st*****@gmail.com
URLs:
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Full description:
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Source:
Google Play Store
Data ingested on:
2025-04-02
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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Android app. Please use these information below to contact the Android app developer.
Developed by:
Stephen (Stericson)
Google Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox
Email:
st*****@gmail.com

User Reviews

Pros
  • Works fine for some users and restores proper functionality in Android.
  • Best BusyBox installation available according to some reviewers.
  • Walks users through configuring the app.
Cons
  • Many users report issues with root access and permissions.
  • App does not work on newer devices or without root access.
  • Unreasonably demanding for upgrades to Pro version and perceived as a money grab.
Recent reviews
I install to xbin because I use Magisk. Anyway try other if xbin not working. Bin or sbin. Make sure to uninstall old before reinstall. So far so good.
by Na*****, 2023-01-20

Busybox doesn't work for me. It says to root check and I press on check and it doesn't work either. Both somewhat trash.
by Ha*****, 2022-11-12
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