Verdict up front: This app asks you to buy boosters to speed up Bitcoin mining it says is happening on your behalf. It is published under the developer name Spying Tools App. We would tell you not to install it on the basis of that name alone, and everything else we checked points the same way.
Key facts — checked 25 September 2026
Package name: com.cryptominerltd.btcmining.pro · Listed developer: Spying Tools App · Installs: 1,000 plus · Store rating: None recorded · Monetisation: Adverts plus in-app purchases
Start with the developer name
The publisher account on this listing is called Spying Tools App. That is not a detail buried in a permissions screen. It is the name on the store page, next to the app you are being asked to send cryptocurrency to.
A developer account is reused across apps. Whoever holds this one has chosen to present themselves under a name describing surveillance software, and is now publishing a product that handles crypto deposits. Whether the previous apps were spyware in a technical sense matters less than the fact that this is the account you would be trusting with your money.
There is no reading of this that favours installing the app. Either the name is accurate, which is disqualifying, or it was chosen for attention, which tells you what the operator’s judgement is like. In both cases the answer is the same.
No rating means no track record
The listing records no rating. On most apps that is unremarkable. Here it is informative, because it tells you the app is new or has almost no users, and neither is what you want from something holding your deposits.
It also removes the one imperfect signal that usually exists. Ratings on mining apps are unreliable, but recent one star reviews at least reveal whether withdrawals are completing. With no reviews at all, there is no reported payout history, positive or negative. Nobody has been through the withdrawal process and come back to describe it.
The package name adds a further note. It contains cryptominerltd, which borrows the ltd suffix without naming a company. We found no registration matching it. Corporate language in a package identifier is decoration, not verification, and it is worth recognising when it is being used that way.
⚠ Verified evidence — checked 25 September 2026
- Published under the developer name Spying Tools App
- No store rating and no reported payout history of any kind
- Package name borrows an ltd suffix with no matching company registration
- No hashrate, pool account, facility or equipment disclosed
- Sells in-app booster purchases against a withdrawal that is never demonstrated
The mining itself does not exist
Set the developer name aside and the offer still fails on its own terms. Cloud mining is a business of physical machines, industrial electricity and thin margins. An operator that has them can tell you the hashrate you are renting, the pool it mines into, and the maintenance fee deducted from your share.
This app publishes none of that. There is no hashrate, no pool, no facility, no equipment and no named company. What is published is a set of plans with prices and returns.
A return with no hashrate behind it is not mining income. It has to come from somewhere, and with no revenue the only available source is the deposits of other users. That is the structure whatever the app is called, and it fails when deposits slow, which is always.
If it is already installed
Uninstall it and buy nothing. The app monetises through adverts and in-app purchases, selling boosters with names such as Gold Hash Power that promise faster mining rewards, while its wallet screen offers withdrawal in BTC, ETH, USDT and DOGE. If you have already bought boosters, request a refund through Google Play rather than through the app, and do not pay any further fee presented as unlocking a withdrawal.
Given the developer name, treat the device as well as the money. Review the permissions the app was granted and revoke them. Check for any accessibility service or device administrator permission it holds, because those are the ones that allow an app to read screen content and intercept input. Remove it, then change the passwords for anything sensitive you accessed on that device, starting with email and any exchange or wallet app.
If you used a wallet on the same phone, move the funds to a wallet created on a device the app never touched. Do not re-enter an existing seed phrase on the affected device. Write down the transaction hashes and receiving addresses of anything you sent, and ignore anyone who contacts you afterwards promising to recover it.
Our view: An app handling cryptocurrency deposits under a developer account named after surveillance software should not be installed, and there is no mining evidence behind it either. Remove it, send nothing, and if it had accessibility or admin permissions on your phone, treat your accounts on that device as exposed.
Sources, checked 25 September 2026: Google Play listing for com.cryptominerltd.btcmining.pro, developer account and registry searches
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