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Android Apps > Tools > BusyBox for Android
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BusyBox for Android

7.0.0(68008)
Maple Media
4.20
24,548 reviews
5,000,000+
Downloads
Free

A beautiful and simple BusyBox installer for all Android devices

Not recently updated — last update was on 2024-04-24. This app may no longer be actively maintained.
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About BusyBox for Android

BusyBox for Android is a tools app developed by Maple Media.

Download Statistics

BusyBox for Android has been downloaded 5.7 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 19 times.

User Ratings

BusyBox for Android is rated 4.20 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 25 thousand ratings.

App Information

BusyBox for Android is FREE to download. The APK download size is 35.04 MB. The latest version available is 7.0.0(68008). The last update was on April 24, 2024.

Technical Requirements

BusyBox for Android requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play March 2011.

Description
The most advanced BusyBox installer on Google Play from a trusted developer with over 40 million downloads.

Features:

◻︎Material design
◻︎ Latest BusyBox
◻︎ Create flashable ZIPs
◻︎One click install or install in recovery
◻︎ Run, create, and edit shell scripts
◻︎ Get the latest BusyBox version

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.

BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.

BusyBox is maintained by Denys Vlasenko, and licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 2.

Applets:

[, [[, acpid, adjtimex, ar, arp, arping, ash, awk, base64, basename,
bbconfig, beep, blkid, blockdev, bootchartd, brctl, bunzip2, bzcat,
bzip2, cal, cat, catv, chat, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown, chpst,
chroot, chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm, cp, cpio, crond, crontab,
cryptpw, cttyhack, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, depmod, devfsd,
devmem, df, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsd, dnsdomainname, dos2unix, dpkg,
dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, echo, ed, egrep, env, envdir, envuidgid,
ether-wake, expand, expr, fakeidentd, false, fatattr, fbset, fbsplash,
fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgconsole, fgrep, find, findfs, flash_lock,
flash_unlock, flashcp, flock, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck,
fsck.minix, fstrim, fsync, ftpd, ftpget, ftpput, fuser, getopt, grep,
groups, gunzip, gzip, halt, hd, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostname, httpd,
hush, hwclock, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifenslave, ifplugd, ifup, inetd,
init, inotifyd, insmod, install, ionice, iostat, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc,
iplink, iproute, iprule, iptunnel, kbd_mode, kill, killall, killall5,
klogd, less, linux32, linux64, linuxrc, ln, loadkmap, logger, logname,
losetup, lpd, lpq, lpr, ls, lsattr, lsmod, lsof, lspci, lsusb, lzcat,
lzma, lzop, lzopcat, makedevs, makemime, man, md5sum, mdev, mesg,
microcom, mkdir, mkdosfs, mke2fs, mkfifo, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.minix,
mkfs.reiser, mkfs.vfat, mknod, mkpasswd, mkswap, mktemp, modinfo,
modprobe, more, mount, mountpoint, mpstat, mt, mv, nameif, nanddump,
nandwrite, nbd-client, nc, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, nslookup,
ntpd, od, openvt, patch, pgrep, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress,
pivot_root, pkill, pmap, popmaildir, poweroff, powertop, printenv,
printf, ps, pscan, pstree, pwd, pwdx, raidautorun, rdate, rdev,
readlink, readprofile, realpath, reboot, reformime, renice, reset,
resize, rev, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, rtcwake,
run-parts, runsv, runsvdir, rx, script, scriptreplay, sed, sendmail,
seq, setarch, setconsole, setkeycodes, setlogcons, setserial, setsid,
setuidgid, sh, sha1sum, sha256sum, sha3sum, sha512sum, showkey, shuf,
slattach, sleep, smemcap, softlimit, sort, split, start-stop-daemon,
stat, strings, stty, sum, sv, svlogd, swapoff, swapon, switch_root,
sync, sysctl, tac, tail, tar, tcpsvd, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp,
tftpd, time, timeout, top, touch, tr, traceroute, traceroute6, true,
truncate, tty, ttysize, tunctl, tune2fs, ubiattach, ubidetach,
ubimkvol, ubirmvol, ubirsvol, ubiupdatevol, udpsvd, uevent, umount,
uname, uncompress, unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlink, unlzma, unlzop,
unxz, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig, vi, volname,
watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which, whoami, whois, xargs, xz, xzcat, yes,
zcat, zcip

Support email: contact@maplemedia.io

Recent changes:
Thanks for updating to the latest version of BusyBox. We appreciate your continued support!
Included in this release:
* Many bug fixes
Want to connect? Drop us a line at contact@maplemedia.io
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More data about BusyBox for Android

Price Free to download
Total downloads 5.7 million
Recent downloads 19
Rating 4.20 based on 25 thousand ratings
Ranking Not ranked
Version 7.0.0(68008)
APK size 35.0 MB
Number of libraries 47
Designed for Android 5.0+
Maturity Medium Maturity
Ads Contains ads

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

18K
1.7K
730
240
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Downloads over time

BusyBox for Android has been downloaded 5.7 million times. Over the past 30 days, it has been downloaded 19 times.

Changelog of BusyBox for Android

  • Apr 24, 2024UpdateVersion 7.0.0(68008)
  • Jun 11, 2018Installs5,000,000+ installs
  • Oct 25, 2017UpdateVersion 6.7.9.0
  • Jul 20, 2017UpdateVersion 6.7.6.0
  • Feb 22, 2017UpdateVersion 6.7.3.0
  • Jan 23, 2017UpdateVersion 6.7.1.0
  • Jan 18, 2017UpdateVersion 5.7.1.0
  • Nov 3, 2016UpdateVersion 5.6.1.0
  • Aug 31, 2016UpdateVersion 5.5.1.0
  • Aug 3, 2016UpdateVersion 5.5.0.0
  • Jul 3, 2016UpdateVersion 5.4.0.0
  • Jun 16, 2016UpdateVersion 5.3.9.0
  • Jun 3, 2016UpdateVersion 5.3.8.0
  • May 14, 2016UpdateVersion 5.2.8.0
  • Apr 17, 2016UpdateVersion 5.1.7.0
  • Apr 15, 2016UpdateVersion 5.1.6.0
  • Mar 23, 2016UpdateVersion 5.0.5.0
  • Mar 12, 2016UpdateVersion 5.0.4.0
  • Feb 21, 2016UpdateVersion 5.0.3.0
  • Feb 16, 2016UpdateVersion 5.0.1.0
  • Feb 13, 2016UpdateVersion 5.0.0.0
  • Nov 17, 2012Installs1,000,000+ installs
  • Jun 20, 2012UpdateVersion 4.1
  • Jun 15, 2012UpdateVersion 4.0
  • Jun 4, 2012UpdateVersion 3.8
  • Jun 2, 2012UpdateVersion 3.7
  • May 28, 2012UpdateVersion 3.5
  • Nov 22, 2011UpdateVersion 2.0
  • Sep 8, 2011UpdateVersion 1.5
  • Aug 22, 2011Installs>250,000 installs
  • May 30, 2011UpdateVersion 1.3
  • May 1, 2011Installs50,000+ installs
  • Apr 14, 2011UpdateVersion 1.2
  • Mar 28, 2011Installs10,000+ installs
  • Mar 26, 2011Installs5,000+ installs
  • Mar 25, 2011UpdateVersion 1.1
  • Mar 22, 2011Installs1,000+ installs
  • Mar 22, 2011UpdateVersion 1.0.2
  • Mar 19, 2011New AppVersion 1.0 in Tools for Free
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contact@maplemedia.io

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Comments on BusyBox for Android for Android

★★★★★ Sahil Bhandari · Aug 19, 2021
So far so good this is the only app worked for me xD thank you developer................
★★★★★ Sathiya Moorthy · Jun 4, 2020
It was an awesome app. It really helped me in fixing my phone. I used it without root to reboot to recovery. Thanks to the developers for such a wonderful app.!!!!!!!
★★★★★ Mark West · Jan 24, 2021
Great installation of Busy Box for 'droid. Easy access to applets and scripts. Includes every feature I could think of off the top of my limited intellect. Having compared a few this is the best of the FREE installs IMHO.
★★★★★ Σαμαέλ «Misfit» Μορνινησταρ · Nov 7, 2025
Perfect, is what it says, all functions are properly accessible and UI is simple even for inexperienced users.
★★☆☆☆ Bob Sponge · Jul 16, 2020
Only installs busy box version 1.26.2 which is miles behind the other apps. Detects busy box installed in /vendor/xbin though.
★☆☆☆☆ Joel Cross · Mar 19, 2025
It requires root and doesn't mention this in the description. Also, bloatware and ads!
★☆☆☆☆ Chris Williams · Jun 22, 2025
I've used busy box before without any problem. This version does not allow me to install the commands to do that system/bin or system /xbin. And I also paid to remove the ads thinking that it would work, and now I can't get a refund.

Google Play Rankings for BusyBox for Android

This app is not ranked

Technologies used by BusyBox for Android

BusyBox for Android is requesting 21 permissions and is using 48 libraries.

Permissions

Development tools
test access to protected storage
Network communication
view network connections, view Wi-Fi connections, full network access, control Near Field Communication, Google Play billing service, receive data from Internet
Storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
System tools
prevent phone from sleeping, install shortcuts
Extra
android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE, android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS, com.applovin.array.apphub.permission.BIND_APPHUB_SERVICE, com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE, com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID, com.jrummy.busybox.installer.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION, jackpal.androidterm.permission.RUN_SCRIPT, jrummy.androidterm.permission.RUN_SCRIPT

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