Code hardening
Obfuscation (renaming, control flow, string encryption), resource and asset encryption, and secret protection, so your code and data at rest give nothing away.
BYTEHIDE FOR MOBILE
Mobile App Security for iOS and Android
ByteHide protects your mobile apps on two fronts. Shield hardens your code and defends it as it runs. Mobile ADR detects and responds to live attacks. Most tools give you one. ByteHide gives you both, on every mobile stack you ship.
Free to start. Works with every major mobile stack and CI/CD platform.
- 20,000+ developers protect their applications with ByteHide every month
- Apps protected across iOS and Android
- App Store and Google Play compatible
- Built in production by mobile teams worldwide
- 20,000+ developers protect their applications with ByteHide every month
- Apps protected across iOS and Android
- App Store and Google Play compatible
- Built in production by mobile teams worldwide
Why mobile apps are uniquely exposed
Your mobile app does not run on your servers. It runs on phones you do not control.
Your mobile app does not run on your servers. It runs on phones you do not control, in the hands of millions of users and, sometimes, attackers. Anyone can pull your app from the store, decompile the APK or IPA, run it on a rooted or jailbroken device, attach a debugger, hook it with instrumentation frameworks, and read what is inside. What they find turns into fraud, cloned apps, lost revenue, and breached user data.
Reverse engineering
Your APK or IPA decompiled to extract proprietary logic, algorithms, and secrets.
Tampering and repackaging
Your app modified, cracked, cloned, and republished, sometimes with malware added.
Runtime and device attacks
Debuggers, hooking frameworks, emulators, and rooted or jailbroken devices used to control your app as it runs.
Data and credential theft
API keys, tokens, and user data lifted from the binary or from memory.
Application shielding is what defends mobile code in the field.
Hardening is half the job. ByteHide does both halves.
Protecting a mobile app takes two things: making it hard to understand and modify, and catching the attacks that get through anyway. ByteHide gives you both, from one platform and one account: Shield for hardening and self-protection, Mobile ADR for detection and response.
Layer 1: Shield
Make your app hard to break. Obfuscation, encryption, anti-tamper, anti-debug, and root and jailbreak detection. This is the protection specialized mobile vendors are built around.
Application hardeningL1
Mobile RASPL2
Anti-tamperL3
Root & jailbreakL4
Anti-hookingL5
Layer 2: Mobile ADR
Catch the attacks that try anyway. Live detection, code-level anomaly monitoring, and real-time response, not just a dashboard of events. It is full application detection and response, built for mobile.
Specialized tools harden. ByteHide hardens and responds.
Layer 1, Shield: harden and self-protect
Code hardening and runtime self-protection for iOS and Android.
Shield protects your mobile app at build time and at runtime. It rewrites your compiled app so decompiled code reveals nothing useful, encrypts your strings and resources, and builds in defenses that detect tampering, debuggers, hooking frameworks, emulators, and rooted or jailbroken devices while the app runs. Every build is AI-driven and polymorphic, so each release is protected differently and an attacker who breaks one learns nothing about the next.
Runtime self-protection (RASP)
Anti-tamper, anti-debug, anti-hooking, emulator detection, and root and jailbreak detection, so your app defends itself on devices you do not control.
This layer alone matches what the specialized mobile vendors offer.
Layer 2, Mobile ADR: detect and respond
The evolution beyond RASP.
Shield makes your app defend itself. Mobile ADR makes your app see and report what is happening to it. It monitors your running app for anomalies and active attacks, detects advanced threats that static defenses cannot, and responds in real time: alerting your team, blocking the session, or stopping the app before damage is done. It is the same detection and response engine that protects your APIs, backend, and desktop apps, built for mobile.
Debugger detection
Identifies active debugging sessions attached to your application process, including LLDB, GDB, and other analysis tools.
Virtual machine detection
Detects execution inside VMs commonly used for malware analysis and reverse engineering of your app.
Emulator detection
Identifies Android emulators, iOS simulators, and sandboxed environments used to bypass device-level security.
Jailbreak and root
Detects compromised devices where OS-level security controls have been bypassed (Magisk, Checkra1n, and similar tools).
Tampering detection
Identifies modifications to your application binary, resources, manifest, or code signature after distribution.
Frida and hooking
Detects hooking frameworks like Frida, Xposed, and Substrate injecting code into your application process at runtime.
Repackaging
Detects if the application was redistributed with modifications, injected code, or altered signing certificates.
Memory dump
Identifies attempts to dump application memory for credential extraction, key recovery, or runtime data theft.
Network tampering
Detects SSL proxy interception, certificate pinning bypass, and man-in-the-middle configurations on the device.
Clock manipulation
Identifies system clock manipulation used to bypass time-based logic, trial periods, or token expiration.
License binding
Validates that the application runs on its authorized device, environment, or license configuration.
App container detection
Detects execution inside application containers, dual-space environments, or cloning tools on the device.
Remote desktop
Identifies active remote access sessions through TeamViewer, AnyDesk, RDP, and similar tools while your app is running.
Screen recording
Identifies active screen recording or capture sessions that could leak sensitive information displayed in your app.
Hardening keeps most attackers out. Mobile ADR handles the ones who try anyway.
See it in a demoBuilt for every mobile stack
Whatever you build your app with, Shield protects it.
Compatible with
- Swift
- Objective-C
- Java
- Kotlin
- React Native
- Ionic
- Cordova
- NativeScript
- Unity
- MAUI
- Xamarin
Engineered for mobile performance
Hardening and runtime defense your users never feel. On mobile, security that costs performance costs users. ByteHide is built so protection adds negligible app size, startup time, and runtime overhead. It runs natively rather than interpreted, and every protection is configurable, so you tune the balance between security and performance for each build.
Integrates without compromise
Shield protects your compiled app, so there is no SDK to integrate and no source code to change. Add it to your build and every release ships protected. Protection runs natively and is fully configurable, so your app keeps the size, speed, and user experience your users expect.
- Post-compileProtects your .ipa, .apk, and bundles. No source changes.
- Any CI/CDDrop it into your existing release pipeline.
- No performance taxNative, configurable protection your users never feel.
- IDE integrationNative plug-ins for Xcode and Gradle (Android Studio). Protected builds straight from your IDE.
- CLI availablePrefer the command line? The ByteHide CLI works on any machine and any release pipeline, with or without an IDE.
Built for your whole team
One platform, value for every role.
For business leaders
Business leaders
Protect app revenue, prevent fraud and intellectual property theft, and safeguard the brand your users trust.
For security teams
Security teams
Hardening, RASP, and detection and response for every app you ship, from one console, with audit-ready evidence.
For developers
Developers
Protect every release without changing your code or slowing your app. One setup in your pipeline.
Built for high-stakes mobile
The industries attackers target most, and the standards they answer to.
Finance and fintech
Protect transactions, credentials, and customer data against fraud and account takeover.
Gaming
Stop cheating, piracy, and tampering that drain revenue and ruin fair play.
Retail and e-commerce
Protect checkout, loyalty, and customer data across millions of installs.
Healthcare
Protect patient data and keep medical apps trustworthy and compliant.
Compliance
Shield supports the requirements behind GDPR, PCI DSS, and the OWASP MASVS, and the ByteHide Audit module turns your protection into the evidence reviewers ask for.
- GDPR
- PCI DSS
- OWASP MASVS
Part of the ByteHide Application Runtime Defense platform
Mobile is one place ByteHide protects your software. The same platform secures your web, desktop, server, and APIs. Shield hardens your code, Runtime detects and responds, Code finds vulnerabilities before release, Vault protects secrets, and Audit handles compliance, all from one account.
Shield
Code shielding
Hardens your mobile code and builds in runtime self-protection. The module on this page.
Runtime
Detect and respond
Application detection and response, including Mobile ADR for live mobile threats.
ByteHide application security platformOne account · one dashboard · one platform
Code
SCA · SAST
Secrets
Vault
Active
Shield
Code shielding
ADR
Runtime
Agentic
AI agents
Logs
Audit
Shared dashboard
One platform, one account
Shield, Runtime, Code, Vault, and Audit share the same account, the same dashboard, and the same platform.
Start with mobile. Grow into the platform.
Used by mobile teams shipping every day
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