ALEAPP
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ALEAPP (Android Logs Events And Protobuf Parser) is a tool that parses Android extractions and generates artifact reports for digital forensics.
aleapp -t zip -i /path/to/extraction.zip -o /path/to/output/ --hash python aleapp.py -t raw -i <path_to_image.img> -o <path_for_report_output> aleapp -t raw -i /evidence/iphone_acquisition.E01 -o /reports/output/ aleapp -t tar -i /evidence/android_extraction.tar.xz -o /reports/output/ python aleapp.py -t raw -i /evidence/macbook.E01 -o /reports/nova_case/ python aleapp.py -t raw -i <path_to_image.E01> -o <path_for_report_output> aleapp --profile my_analysis_profile.ini
Summary
ALEAPP is an open-source command-line and GUIGUIA graphical user interface, controls such as windows, buttons and menus. It lets people use software visually rather than entering commands. tool, written in Python, that parses Android logs, events, and protobuf-based artifacts from a filesystem or backup extraction into a readable report. It runs directly on a Linux, macOS, or Windows machine, or can be compiled into a standalone executable, and it takes a zip, tar, gz, or filesystem image as input. It is built for digital forensics and incident responsedigital forensics and incident responseDigital forensics and incident response, investigating what happened during a security incident and containing it. The work includes preserving evidence, reconstructing activity and restoring systems. practitioners examining Android devices, with individual artifact parsers contributed as plugins covering messaging apps like Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp, social apps, system databases, and device usage records. It sits in the DFIRDFIRDigital forensics and incident response, investigating what happened during a security incident and containing it. The work includes preserving evidence, reconstructing activity and restoring systems. parsing space, doing the job examiners would otherwise split across many app-specific scripts. First committed in 2020, it has drawn 82 contributors and 673 commits in the past year, with a release only 28 days ago.
ALEAPP (Android Logs Events And Protobuf Parser) is a tool that parses Android extractions and generates artifact reports for digital forensics.
How ALEAPP helps
Which messaging apps on this device still have recoverable conversations, and what do they say?
decrypts and parses SQLCipher or Realm-backed stores for apps like Signal, Telegram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp, reconstructing accounts, chats, members, and message content including attachments where the keys are available
What did this person actually do on the device around the time of the incident?
parses system databases like UsageStats, Recent Tasks, and device usage records into a timeline of app activity and device state
Are there deleted or partially overwritten records still sitting in these app databases?
recovers rows from write-ahead logs and dropped views, including WAL-only Snapchat conversation rows and Samsung records left behind when the underlying table view was removed on newer Android versions
Is this photo or video what it claims to be, or was it AI-generated or edited?
reads content-provenance manifests embedded in media to surface the signer certificate, signing time, and a state grouping that shows every claim made about a given file
Which of the many apps on this phone actually have a parser I can rely on, and which are just sitting unexamined?
runs each contributed plugin against the extraction and lists what it found per artifact category, so apps with no matching plugin show up as gaps rather than silent misses
Can I trust a report enough to hand it to opposing counsel or a case file?
escapes evidence names in report output and strips remote CDN or URL references from the generated HTML, so opening the report does not reach out to the internet or execute injected content
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Score card
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Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
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Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
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Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
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Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
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Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
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Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
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Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
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Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
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Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply
Nine scores for ALEAPP, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.
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How this is scored
- Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
- Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
- Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
- Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
- Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
- Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
- Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
- Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.
Release-note detail over time
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What ALEAPP connects to, runs on and detects, read from its release notes and docs. So far: 9 new detections, 1 updated detection, 1 updated supported platform.
11 changes, tracked since Oct 24, 2026.
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Oct 242026
new Yandex Disk artifact module
New: Yandex Disk (cloud files, uploads, accounts, trash, downloads, notes, settings, video positions, image cache and local media)
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Oct 242026
new KeepSafe artifact module
KeepSafe from @charpy4n6
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Oct 242026
new Google Pay artifact module
Google Pay from @prcharan592
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Oct 242026
new Offline DJI TXT flight records artifact module
offline DJI TXT flight records from @Blackwater1224
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Oct 242026
new Shortcut Service artifact module
Shortcut Service from @ForensikITGmbH
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Oct 242026
new Chrome Cache - Videos artifact module
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Oct 242026
new Chromium downloads matched to MediaStore
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Oct 242026
new Google app suggestion and key-value caches artifact modules
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Oct 242026
new Discord - Servers artifact module
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Oct 242026
updated Google ODLH gains new Path Points artifact and additional activity fields
With ODLH Path Points
Google ODLH gains activity start and end, distance and type, and a new ODLH Path Points artifact, from @charpy4n6.
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Oct 242026
updated Raw image input adds LVM2, LUKS, RAID, FAT12/FAT16 support
With RAID1
LVM2 logical volumes (including split, striped and RAID1 ones), LUKS containers opened with their passphrase, RAID member images read together, and FAT12 and FAT16 are read.
Operating systems 4
Hardware & accelerators 1
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How we count
Read from 1 of 31 release notes and docs updates we hold for ALEAPP. "First seen" is the earliest note that names something; "last" is the latest. Our history may start partway through ALEAPP's life, so an old integration can show a recent first-seen date.
Each change counts once: "added 40 checks" is one line, so the numbers measure how often coverage moves, not how big the catalogue is or how well it detects.
Releases
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Project health
Issue, contributor and maintainer activity in abrignoni/ALEAPP, 2023-10 – 2026-09, as of 2026-09-25. Twelve-month figures first; the trend lines run the whole window.
- Contributors 48 +26 vs prior 12 months
- Maintainers 3 +11 joined · −12 left, last 12 months
- Bus factor 2 committers behind half the commits
- Community-filed 68% of issues opened, last 12 months
- Median time to close 11 days first maintainer reply 2.7 hours
- Open backlog 34 of 85 issues ever filed
- Issues opened / month 0 · 0 communitymaintainers
- Open backlog 34
- Contributors / month 7
- Commits / month 276
- Stars 927
- other 100%
Counts from the project's public repository and git history; no individuals are identified. Maintainers are the committers covering 80% of the last year's commits. how we measure this
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