Samsung Galaxy / Tools / APK BACKUP - SHARE
REVIEW
APK BACKUP - SHARE is a blunt little utility that does one job and asks too few questions.
An APK extractor for Galaxy Store users who want to pull installed apps out as shareable files. The mechanics work; the licensing implications are the part nobody mentions.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 4 MIN READ
APK BACKUP - SHARE
ALAA SOLIMAN
OUR SCORE
6.4
SAMSUNG GALAXY
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
APK extractors are an old Android genre, and they all live in the same ethical grey zone. The Android platform genuinely treats your installed apps as files you can copy off the device, which makes a tool like this technically straightforward. What the platform does not do is care whether the file you are copying was free or paid, yours to share or someone else’s to sell. That distinction is left to the user, and to the app’s UX, and most apps in this category — including this one — decline to draw it.
APK BACKUP - SHARE belongs to the Galaxy Store’s long tail of single-purpose Android utilities by independent developers. The mechanics are competent: scan installed packages, surface them in a list, extract on tap, hand off to the share sheet. For a free utility from a small developer, the build quality is fine and the workflow is honest.
The harder question is what you do with it. For free apps you want to archive or move between your own devices, this is a useful two-minute tool. For paid apps you want to forward to a friend, it is a licence violation the app makes no effort to flag. The tool is neutral; the use case is not.
Extracting your own installed APK is fine. Sharing a paid app's APK to a friend is not, and the app draws no line.
FEATURES
APK BACKUP - SHARE does what its name promises and nothing more. It scans the apps installed on your Galaxy phone, lists them with icons and version strings, and lets you extract the underlying APK to local storage or push it out via the share sheet. Long-press an entry, pick "Backup", and the file lands in a folder you can browse with any file manager.
Sharing is the second half of the pitch. Once an APK is extracted, the standard Android share intent fires — Bluetooth, Quick Share, email, Telegram, Drive, whatever the receiving device speaks. There is no proprietary transfer protocol and no account to sign into. The app is a thin wrapper around two Android APIs: the package manager and the share sheet.
Monetisation is the Galaxy Store tools-shelf default. Free install, banner ads in the list view, interstitials between actions. There is no paid tier visible, and no cloud component — every extraction is local, which is the right call for a tool that handles installation packages.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The extraction itself is reliable. Pull the APK of a free app, sideload it onto another Galaxy device, and it installs the way Google Play would have installed it. For the legitimate use cases — archiving a free app before the developer pulls it, moving a sideloaded build between your own devices, sending a friend a free utility you both like — this is a perfectly honest two-tap workflow.
Running fully offline matters here. An APK backup tool that demanded a sign-in or a cloud round-trip would be the wrong shape for the job; this one stays out of the way and treats your installed apps as your own files.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The app draws no distinction between free and paid apps when offering extraction. Pulling and sharing the APK of a paid title — anything you bought through Google Play or the Galaxy Store — is a licence violation, and on commercial titles it shades into piracy. A responsible build would at minimum flag paid-app extraction with a warning, or refuse it outright. This one shrugs.
Ad density is the other recurring complaint in the genre. Interstitials between routine actions in a utility you only open occasionally are tolerable; the same cadence in an app you use weekly becomes the reason you uninstall. There is also no signature, hash, or integrity readout on the extracted file — useful information for anyone sideloading deliberately, missing here.
CONCLUSION
Install it if you have a specific, lawful reason to pull a free APK off your Galaxy phone — archiving a sideload, moving a free utility between your own devices, sending a friend something you both already use. Skip it if you were planning to use it as a paid-app sharing tool; that is not a workflow App Comrade endorses, regardless of how easy the app makes it. For pure on-device archival, a file manager with APK support and an explicit licence warning would be the better long-term shape.