Install Buddy: XAPK Installer
Install APK, XAPK, APKM and APKS files on Android in one tap
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Details
- External ID
- 1278512
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Install Buddy: XAPK Installer
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Android
Description
Install Buddy installs APK, XAPK (with OBB data), APKM and APKS split packages on Android with a single tap. It backs up any installed app as an APK and restores it anytime, and its Advanced Mode lets you choose which parts of a split package to install. Clean dark interface, search and filters, lightweight and free. Over 100,000 installs on Google Play.
Enrichment
- Niche
- mobile system utility apps
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- package installer for android users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Handling low-level Android package installation (PackageInstaller APIs), unpacking split APKs/APKM formats, and moving OBB files requires Android system-level platform expertise.
What it would actually take: The app requires deep knowledge of Android's hidden APIs, the Android `PackageInstaller` session API, ZIP/OBB unpacking, and file system permissions across different Android OS versions. It must be written natively in Kotlin/Java with specialized handling for various proprietary split-bundle formats like APKM and XAPK.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 125 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #58 of 126 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
- ADBKit · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Android2PC Backup Manager · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- SmartPlay APK · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- TapTry · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Aeroapk · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- HappyMod APK Finder · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Sideport · github · 2026-10-07 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- apk-signer-pro · github · 2026-10-03 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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