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No More Background

Control your Android™ apps.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

Overview

Some features rely on the Shizuku app.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“A tool to manage which Android™ apps can run in the background using adb, Shizuku, or root.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of No More Background is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

A tool to manage which Android™ apps can run in the background using adb, Shizuku, or root. You probably don't need some random takeaway app doing anything in the background. And maybe you don't want that mobile game wasting your data when you're not using it. NoMoreBackground gives you a list of your apps and lets you choose which of them you want having background permissions, all on one screen, to help you get the most out of your battery. And the best part? When you're done, you can close NoMoreBackground and move on with your life. No need to "optimize" every day like some other tools: set and forget! Tip: Some apps may still run in the background even if you turn them off here. If you use an app very infrequently, right click it and archive it. The app itself will be uninstalled but its data will remain. This means when you next open it, it'll be reinstalled and you'll still be logged in. Android is a trademark of Google LLC.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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