# 1.15M installs, 1,555 ratings: seven weeks of a cleaner app from charting to fading · Mobile app

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> The developer paid for installs, mostly from older users scared in by fake virus warnings. The app earned through ads and by pushing antivirus-software referrals. Once a round finished, the budget moved to a new app from the same account, Hyper Cleaner.

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Smart Clean Pro · JTR Labs

# 1.15M installs, 1,555 ratings: seven weeks of a cleaner app from charting to fading

**What it is** An Android phone cleaner that makes money only from ads. It scans junk files, finds large files and manages apps, no different from hundreds of others.

**Why it took off** The developer paid for traffic, and most users were older people frightened in by fake virus warnings. The app earns back the money through ads and by pushing antivirus affiliate offers. After one run, the budget moved to Hyper Cleaner, a new package under the same account.

**D** **How you could approach it** Don't make the 49th cleaner app. What's worth borrowing is the playbook: test packages with small budgets on low-threshold tool category charts like Canada and Nigeria, and use the install-to-rating ratio to spot rankings that were bought. If you really want to build a cleaner, study Codeway Cleanup, which runs on subscriptions.

Grade D: it only ran on ad budget, ad and antivirus-affiliate monetization know-how, and disposable developer accounts. The product itself has nothing worth copying. Already 48 cleaner apps sit in the top 200 of the US Tools chart, scare-style acquisition carries account-ban risk, and indie devs following this route won't come out ahead. Not widely known yet

Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-09-18 · 11-07 installs 1,149,428

Android · Total installs worldwide

Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.

Android · Ratings count (cumulative)

Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)

Smart Clean Pro is an Android phone cleaner that launched in Sep 18. By Nov 6 it had 1.15M installs, and its version number is still 1.0.0. It has no feature other apps lack. It ran because of paid acquisition, and now its ranking is sliding in country after country, with the same developer's next package already taking over. This piece uses it to show the full life of a cleaner package: where the traffic came from, how the money came back, why it lasted only weeks, and what you can take from it.

### A review 472 people marked helpful

In Oct 25, a user named Rebecca Jones left this on Google Play:

> I don't know how to get all of the virus off of my phone when I just got it all set up... it's telling me that I have been targeted for multiple viruses and I don't know how I got them when my new phone stays at home all of the time??? I think that is a scammer trying to get in my phone.

By Nov 6, 472 people had marked it "helpful". The two reviews above it: one with 1,510 likes says "This is the first cleaner app I installed, my phone runs faster"; another with 493 likes is pure anger: "Terrible, I never swear, but this service is really bad" (Google Play reviews, 11-06).

Put together, these three describe the users of this kind of product: older, not very tech-savvy, frightened once by "you're infected" or "storage full" prompts. Some felt helped, some felt scammed.

### What it is

An ordinary storage cleaner: it scans caches and leftover files, finds large files, and lists installed apps for manual removal. Free, with no in-app purchases.

The store page is very restrained: "all deletions require your confirmation", "scans and manages files only on the device", no mention of speed-up or antivirus. The store page has **no "contains ads" label** , and the data safety section says "no data collected, no sharing with third parties" (Google Play store page, 11-06).

The privacy policy linked from the store page is titled with another app's name, "Turbo Cleaner", and says it shows ads, that ad partners collect the advertising ID, and that it requests notification permission to send "cleaning reminders, storage warnings". The store page tells one story and the privacy policy tells another, and the privacy policy was copied straight from a different package.

The developer is JTR Labs LLC, registered at an address in a small town in Utah, USA. The support email is a random-letter Gmail, and the developer website doesn't load. This is a common setup for people who mass-produce cleaner packages: a US company registered to pass Google Play's organization account verification, a template website, and a disposable email (inferred).

### Where the volume comes from: every 1,700 installs yields 1 rating

| Date | Total installs | Score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-29 | 483k | 1,167 | 3.94 |
| 10-31 | 851k | 1,280 | 3.98 |
| 11-02 | 1.06M | 1,389 | 3.93 |
| 11-03 | 1.1M | 1,431 | 3.83 |
| 11-06 | 1.15M | 1,555 | 3.73 |

(Google Play install counts, 11-06. Play's install counts update every few days, so don't read them as daily numbers.)

From 10-29 to 11-06, 8 days brought 667k new installs but only 388 ratings, **roughly one rating per 1,700 installs 1** . Users who searched for the app and actually wanted it don't stay this quiet. This looks more like traffic that was pushed in and tapped away after one visit.

We didn't catch the ad creative itself, but all the evidence points to one thing: fake "your phone has X viruses" warnings shown in web pages or games, which send users to Play to install the cleaner. The review above is one example. Malwarebytes wrote about exactly this kind of fake virus warning appearing in mobile game ads in June this year. A Samsung user on the help site JustAnswer complained of ad hijacking and a black screen, and listed installed apps including Smart Clean Pro (though Play has another app with the same name, so it can't be confirmed this is the same one). It doesn't appear in Meta's public ad library, and packages like this mostly don't buy on Meta anyway.

### How the money comes back

No in-app purchases, so the money has to come from inside the app (inferred, not verified by unpacking the app):

- **Full-screen and interstitial ads.** The privacy policy says ads are shown, and the sister package Hyper Cleaner's store page is labeled "contains ads".

- **Notifications pull people back.** Repeated pushes like "storage warning" and "cleaning reminder" bring users back, and each return means more ad impressions.

- **Antivirus affiliate offers.** A review under Hyper Cleaner with 232 likes says "too many pop-ups, can't tell what's real, keeps asking me to buy TotalAV, which I bought months ago". Antivirus subscriptions pay high affiliate commissions, which can cover expensive paid acquisition.

### Why it lasted only weeks

Starting 10-29, it slid in almost every country: US Tools free chart 9 → 25, Canada 6 → 16, Japan 9 → 35, Taiwan 5 → 39, Nigeria 5 → 26. By early November it had dropped out of the top 200 in Germany, France, the UK and Spain. Only Vietnam shows a new entry (172 → 96). Installs followed the same pattern: before 11-02, it added hundreds of thousands in a few days, but over the following four days it grew by only 90k (Google Play chart and install data, 10-29 to 11-06).

At the same time, Hyper Cleaner, launched by the same developer on Oct 9, went from 168k to 977k and climbed into the top of the Canada Tools chart. Same features, same privacy policy. This is the old rhythm of the cleaner category: **one package runs three to six weeks, negative reviews pile up and the rating drops (Smart Clean Pro went from 3.94 to 3.73,1 stars as 192 ratings grew to 333), creatives fatigue, and the budget moves to a new package** .

And it's just one of dozens bunched together: 11-06 In the US Tools Top Free chart's top 200, 48 apps have clean or junk in the name, and 9 of them were listed after August. Clean Pro - AI Cleaner (BleymarStudio, 9-24), listed almost the same week, has 730k installs and an even more similar name. Max Cleaner, listed in August, uses the same "name + erer" Google Sites privacy-page URL pattern, so it's likely from the same group or the same agency (my inference, based on this one clue alone).

| Product | Launched | Scale (11-06) | Compared with alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Files by Google | 2017 | 8B installs | System-level, no ads, decent cleaning ability |
| Cleanup(Codeway) | 2025-11 | 36.5M, #1 on the US Tools chart | Subscription-based, has a brand, actually makes money |
| AntiVirus Clean Master(Blooming Techno) | 2026-02 | 8.15M | Same antivirus + cleaner route, lasting longer |
| Clean Pro - AI Cleaner(BleymarStudio) | 2026-09-24 | 730k | Direct competitors of similar size in the same period |
| Hyper Cleaner (JTR Labs' own) | 2026-10-09 | 980k | The successor package, already taking over the budget |

(Google Play installs and charts, 11-06)

### How many people know about it

Nobody talks about it: no press, no X, no Reddit mentions. Online, it only shows up on app-data sites that auto-generate pages. But the business model (Android cleaner apps, scary-looking ads, ad networks plus antivirus lead-gen monetization) has been run for over a decade and everyone knows it. The obscure part is this particular app, not the playbook.

### If it were you

**In one line:** This is an ad-arbitrage operation run by someone with budget, accounts, and tolerance for ban risk. It is not a product opportunity. Don't build the #49 cleaner app.

**Who it fits:** Teams already buying Android installs at scale, fluent in ad-network and antivirus-network monetization, with several developer accounts on hand. They don't need this article.

**Who it doesn't fit:** Indie devs who haven't run paid campaigns; anyone counting on store search, content, or word of mouth (nobody searches for a cleaner app or shares one); anyone who cares about their accounts or reputation. Fake virus warnings and store pages that don't match actual behavior are both explicitly banned by Google Play, which is exactly why these accounts get opened through disposable companies.

**What you can borrow:**

- **Test cheap in small-country categories.** Tools free charts in Canada, Nigeria, Taiwan, and South Africa can hit the top 10 with a few tens of thousands of installs. For any Android tool, you can test a paid-acquisition model on one or two of these charts with a small budget before deciding whether to scale.

- **Compare installs to ratings rather than guessing whether a rival's volume is bought.** A number like 1,700:1 basically means lead-gen traffic. Scan the category you want to enter with it, and you can quickly tell which chart positions reflect real demand and which reflect budget.

- **When an old app goes stale, switch to a new one instead of rescuing it.** The same holds for compliant products, provided every app passes review.

**If you really want to build a cleaner:** copy Codeway's Cleanup, not this. Same category, but they run on subscriptions, reached #1 on the US tools chart, and that requires a product people actually use, a proper paywall, and sustained spend.

**When to move:** No rush, this lane is already crowded. If you want to use its small-country test approach, test before year-end holiday ad prices climb, when it's cheapest.

**Signs you're reading this wrong:** ① Over the next month or two, new ad-only cleaner apps keep breaking into the top 10 of the US and Canada tools charts, and someone publicly shows numbers that pay back, meaning the arbitrage is still open to newcomers; ② Conversely, if Google Play pulls many of these apps before year-end, or several JTR Labs apps vanish together, the lane is closing and its lessons lose value.

[Android store page ↗](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtrlabs.storage.smartclean)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleanup: Phone Storage Cleaner(Codeway) | Android | 2025-11-21 | 36.5M installs, 7 day +960k, US TOOLS #1 | Legit subscription brand from a large studio, with far larger paid acquisition |
| AntiVirus Clean Master-Cleaner(Blooming Techno) | Android | 2026-02-28 | 8.15M, 7 day +430k, US TOOLS #5 | Same antivirus-plus-cleaner scare route, running longer and bigger |
| CleanMas / CleanLoom(BetterFly Games) | Android | 2025-11~12 | 13.7M / 11.1M | Multi-account matrix from one developer, with its own domain brand |
| Clean Pro - AI Cleaner(BleymarStudio) | Android | 2026-09-24 | 730k, 7 day +650k, US TOOLS #24 | Launched around the same time, nearly identical size and name, a direct rival |
| Max Cleaner(FWP Bigtime) | Android | 2026-08-10 | 2.37M | Privacy page written the same way, likely a previous product from the same team |
| Turbo Cleaner / SecureClean(CN CodeHub) | Android | 2026-04 | 3.42M / 3.29M | The privacy policy for this app names "Turbo Cleaner"; whether it's the same source is unverified |
| Files by Google / Samsung Device Care | Big-company features | 2017 | 8B+ installs / built-in system app | Free, no ads, same or better cleaning ability |

Where users come from

- Inferred **Web scare pop-ups / redirect ads (fake virus warning → go install a cleaner app from Play)** : Play review: "It told me I was targeted by multiple viruses, I think it's a scam" (469 people marked it helpful); a sister app's review: a new phone keeps reporting junk; install/rating ratio ~1700:1; a JustAnswer ad-hijacking help thread lists Smart Clean Pro among installed apps (a same-named app exists on Play, unsure which one); Malwarebytes wrote about this kind of ad 2026-06

- Inferred **In-app ads + antivirus-network lead-gen (monetization)** : the privacy policy says ads are shown; Hyper Cleaner's store page is labeled "contains ads," and reviews complain about constant TotalAV upsells

- **Confirmed** **Multi-store chart traffic / same-account matrix handoff** : charted on the 15 TOOLS free chart; after Hyper Cleaner launched 10-09, it gained 7 day +810k, absorbing traffic (source: googleplay library)

- Inferred **Meta / Google / TikTok ads, content, media** : not found in the metaads library; not covered by the googleads/tiktokads lists; x-radar and TikHub return nothing

## Why Smart Clean Pro (com.jtrlabs.storage.smartclean) got this far

> Channel: Google Play / Tools (TOOLS). Developer: JTR Labs (JTR Labs LLC, Bluffdale, UT). First store listing 2026-09-18, version 1.0.0, last update 2026-10-02. Research date 2026-11-06. Data sources: our googleplay library (hereafter "the library"), the Google Play store page (read via r.jina.ai), the metaads / googleads / tiktokads libraries, and web search.

### Bottom line

It didn't get here on product merit. This is a **template Android cleaner app** published under a purchased or registered US LLC developer account, forming a small matrix with Hyper Cleaner and Fast Cleaner from the same account. Installs most likely come from **web-side "phone infected / storage full" scare pop-ups and redirect ads that send people to Play** . Inside the app, "virus and junk" prompts monetize through ads and feed antivirus lead-gen (reviewers mention being pushed TotalAV repeatedly). It has no real difference from dozens of similar apps in the category. It climbed the charts through **ad budget and spend pacing** , not differentiation.

### 1. Growth data

| Date | Total installs | New today | Score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10-29 | 482,786 | – | 1,167 | 3.94 |
| 10-31 | 850,992 | +368,206 | 1,280 | 3.98 |
| 11-02 | 1,056,601 | +205,609 | 1,389 | 3.93 |
| 11-03 | 1,103,645 | +47,044 | 1,431 | 3.83 |
| 11-06 | 1,149,428 | +45,783 | 1,555 | 3.73 |

(Source: library app_snap / app_day. Play's install counts update in jumps, so the days showing 0 are non-refreshes, not zero installs.)

- 8 天新增 66.7 万次安装,平均约 8.3 万次/天;同期评分只多了 388 个,**大约每 1,700 次安装才有 1 个评分** ,和正常自然用户比低得多,说明进来的多是「被导进来、用完就走」的流量。

- The rating is slipping: 1-star reviews went from 192 to 333, and the average dropped from 3.94 to 3.73.

- Since the library began recording on 10-29, **chart positions have slid in nearly every country** : US TOOLS free chart 9→25 (11-05 once dropped to 35,11-06, then recovered to 25); Canada 6→16; Japan 9→35; Taiwan 5→39; Nigeria 5→26; Germany, France, UK, and Spain had already dropped out of the top 200 by early November. Only Vietnam is a new entry (172→96). **Its peak came before 10-29, which our library didn't capture** ; it is now in a phase of spend being cut and markets being swapped.

- The same-account **Hyper Cleaner** (launched 10-09) rose over the same period from 168k to 977k (7 day +809k) and is now US TOOLS #40, Canada #4. **Spend is shifting from Smart Clean Pro to Hyper Cleaner** , the common cleaner-app rhythm of running one account for 3–6 weeks before moving to the next. JTR Labs' two apps total about 2.13M installs in the library (library developer view).

### 2. What it is and who made it

- The store description is very restrained, apparently written to pass review: junk scanning, large-file management, app management, "all deletions require user confirmation," "processed locally only." The store page has **no "contains ads" label** , and the data safety section says "collects and shares no data" (Play store page, 2026-11-06).

- But the privacy policy it links to (sites.google.com/view/turbo-cleanerer/privacy-policy) is titled with another app's name, "**Turbo Cleaner** ." It says ads are shown, ad partners collect the advertising ID, and it requests the notifications permission to send "cleanup reminders / storage warnings." **The privacy policy and store page don't match, and the policy is a template lifted from a different app.**

- Developer info: JTR Labs LLC, 16209 S Coupler Ln, Bluffdale, UT, phone +1 667-999-3483, email jtr.labs@jtrlabs.buzz. The support email is a random-character Gmail (khvkdhm@gmail.com). The developer site jtr-labs.com shows the Apache 403 default page. jtrlabs.buzz is a generic "systems design / cloud infrastructure consulting" template site. This looks like a typical **shell US LLC registered to pass Play's organization-account verification** (D-U-N-S + template website + disposable email).

- The same account also has Fast Cleaner (com.jtrlabs.fastcleaner.trash, 100k+ installs, 4.5 stars, contains ads) and **Aether Pass (com.gdt.aetherpass)** . The package prefix isn't jtrlabs, which suggests the account previously hosted something else and was later repurposed for cleaner apps (inferred: a purchased old account or one transferred hands; unverified).

- Don't confuse them: the top search result for "JTR Labs," jtrlabs.com, is an "independent studio run by a veteran" that makes privacy-focused iOS apps such as Cortex and Onda (App Store developer id 1892768253). Its address, domain, and email all differ from the Play JTR Labs here, so **it's most likely just a name collision** unrelated to this product (unverified).

- Traces of the same template: FWP Bigtime's Max Cleaner (com.bigtime.trash.cleaner, 2.36M installs, listed 2026-08-10) uses sites.google.com/view/**max-cleanerer** /privacy-policy, the same Google Sites pattern of "name + erer/privacy-policy," with the same Gmail random address and a .com site. Tidal Tech's Active Cleaner (clean-plus0/privacy-policy) is similarly structured. **Likely the same team or the same contractor/agency batch-opening accounts** (library app table; the link is circumstantial, unverified).

### 3. Where users came from (growth tactics)

| Channel | Evidence | Confirmed? |
|---|---|---|
| Web scare pop-ups / redirect ads ("your phone has X viruses" → go install a cleaner app from the store) | ① Play reviews (10-25,469 people marked "helpful"): "It told me I was targeted by multiple viruses... I think it's a scam"; a Hyper Cleaner review (11-05): "Brand-new phone, two weeks old, keeps saying it has a pile of junk files, dishonest"; ② Reviewers appear to be older US/UK users (judging by names and writing style), the typical audience for this kind of ad; ③ Install-to-rating ratio ~1700:1, very few reviews left; ④ In a JustAnswer help thread about ad hijacking and a black screen on a Samsung phone, the installed app list included "Smart Clean Pro, Space Cleaner, Storage Clean"; ⑤ Malwarebytes (2026-06) and 2-spyware (2026-10 re-checked) have both documented web and in-game ads that show fake virus warnings and send you to the store to install a cleaner app. Note: Play also has a same-named Smart Clean Pro (Rangana Global Studio), and it's undetermined which one the JustAnswer thread refers to. | Partially confirmed (behavioral evidence is strong, but specific ad creatives weren't captured) |
| In-game or in-app rewarded or interstitial ads | Malwarebytes 2026-06 wrote that these fake warnings appear in mobile-game ads; competitors in the store commonly run this way. No direct evidence for this product | Unconfirmed |
| Meta ads | The metaads library doesn't find JTR or Smart Clean Pro by package or Page name. Cleaner advertisers tracked in the library (such as "Best Free App," 71 likes, 801 active ads) are other companies. Meta's library was discovered by keyword, so no results doesn't mean no spend | Not found |
| Google Ads / TikTok ads | Not on the googleads or tiktokads lists (those two libraries only track products on their lists) | Not covered |
| Organic search / ASO | The title "Smart Clean Pro" is a generic term, and several same-named apps exist on Play. Charting brings some chart and search traffic, but that is not what drove the rise | Minor |
| TikTok / X / Reddit / press | x-radar: 60 posts in the last 0 days; TikHub search returned nothing; only auto-generated pages turn up on the web (AppBrain, AppGazers, Similarweb, APK sites) | None |

**How the money comes back (inferred)** : ① full-screen and interstitial ads (the privacy policy says ads are shown, and sister apps' store pages are labeled "Contains ads"); ② push notifications asking for permission to send repeated "cleaning / virus" reminders that pull users back and add ad impressions; ③ affiliate traffic to antivirus products. A review on Hyper Cleaner (10-22,232 people found it helpful): "Too many pop-ups, I can't tell which is real, and it keeps telling me to buy TotalAV, but I bought it months ago." Antivirus subscriptions like TotalAV pay high CPA commissions, which can fund expensive web paid acquisition. No in-app purchases (library offers_iap = False). We have not decompiled the APK, so the exact monetization method is **inferred** .

### 4. Competitors

The category is extremely crowded: among the top 200 free TOOLS charts in the US store on 11-06, **48** have clean or junk in their names, and 9 of them were listed only after August (library v_chart). The library turns up more than 100 cleaner apps, and most use the same playbook: a Google Sites privacy page, a Gmail support address, and a new developer account.

| Competitors | Platform | Launched | Scale (library, 11-06) | How it differs from Smart Clean Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleanup: Phone Storage Cleaner(Codeway) | Android | 2025-11-21 | 36.5M installs, 7 day +960k, US TOOLS #1 | A professional subscription product from a large studio, with its own brand and domain, buying traffic at several times the scale |
| AntiVirus Clean Master-Cleaner(Blooming Techno) | Android | 2026-02-28 | 8.15M, 7 day +430k, US TOOLS #5 | The same "antivirus + cleaning" scare-tactic approach, running for longer |
| CleanMas / CleanLoom(BetterFly Games) | Android | 2025-12 / 2025-11 | 13.7M / 11.1M | Same developer's multi-account portfolio, with its own domain |
| Clean Pro - AI Cleaner(BleymarStudio) | Android | 2026-09-24 | 730k, 7 day +650k, US TOOLS #24 | Listed at almost the same time, similar size, with a closer name (Clean Pro); a direct contemporary rival |
| Max Cleaner(FWP Bigtime) | Android | 2026-08-10 | 2.37M | Same privacy page format (…cleanerer/privacy-policy); likely the previous generation of the same team or agency's product |
| Turbo Cleaner / SecureClean(CN CodeHub) | Android | 2026-04 | 3.42M / 3.29M | The privacy policy for this product names it "Turbo Cleaner" (whether they share a source is unverified) |
| Hyper Cleaner / Fast Cleaner (JTR Labs' own apps) | Android | 2026-10-09 / unknown | 980K / 100K+ | The successor from the same account, already taking traffic away |
| Files by Google | Big-company features | 2017 | 8B+ | Free, no ads, with built-in cleaning suggestions; Samsung's "Device care" and other built-in system features can do the same job |

### 5. Differentiation

**Nothing.** Its features (junk scanning, large files, app management) match hundreds of other apps in the category, and are worse than Files by Google and the built-in system cleaners. The only real difference is that the store page is written to look especially "compliant" (it stresses user confirmation and local-only processing, is not labeled as ads, and lists data safety as "no data collected"). That may help with review and reduce takedown risk, but it isn't why users come. **It runs because of money and buying cadence, not differentiation.**

### 6. How many people know about it

- Revenue is not public. No coverage on media, X, or Reddit. Only auto-generated pages from AppBrain, AppGazers (which estimates "revenue <$5K"), Similarweb, and APK sites.

- But the business itself (scaring users with fake-virus alerts to buy installs, then monetizing through ads and antivirus referrals) is a **well-known playbook in the industry** . Among the top 200 of the US TOOLS chart, 48 are cleaner apps, so the lane is already packed.

- Bottom line: **this app itself is still unknown, but its playbook is widely known and many people are running it** .

### 7. What others can borrow

- A portfolio rhythm where one account runs 2–3 similar apps at once and swaps in a successor every 3–6 weeks: Smart Clean Pro (9-18) → Hyper Cleaner (10-09). When the earlier one drops in rank, the next one picks up the traffic.

- The Play tools free charts are easy to reach in Canada, Nigeria, South Africa, Taiwan, and Japan. A few tens of thousands of installs can land a top 10 spot, and listing in several countries at once multiplies the chart traffic.

- The store page is conservative and compliant, while the aggressive monetization sits inside the app and in the privacy policy. This is a gray-area move that puts the account at risk, and **not one to copy** . Google Play has explicit policies against fake virus warnings and misleading ads, so the ban risk is high, which is why you need a disposable shell LLC account ready.

### 8. Still unclear

- We did not find the specific paid acquisition channels (which web ad network, push network, or in-game ad provider) or the creatives. Meta's library shows nothing. Google and TikTok libraries don't cover it.

- We have not decompiled the APK to verify which ad SDKs are in the app, whether there are antivirus affiliate links, or how often notifications are pushed. The TotalAV review is from under the sister app Hyper Cleaner.

- The curve before 10-29 (how it went from 9-18 to 10-29 and climbed from 0 to 480K) is not in the library. The app_day_ext table (history backfilled from AppstoreSpy) has not been built on the server yet.

- Whether this is the same team as FWP Bigtime or CN CodeHub rests only on the similar privacy page format.

- Whether it shares a name with the iOS studio JTR Labs LLC (jtrlabs.com) is unclear. The address and domain differ, so it is most likely unrelated.

### Sources

- Library: googleplay (app, app_snap, app_day, chart_rank, v_chart, 2026-10-29~11-06); metaads (advertiser, ad); googleads / tiktokads (watch, adv_map).

- Play store pages: [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtrlabs.storage.sm…](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtrlabs.storage.smartclean); [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtrlabs.hyperclean…](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtrlabs.hypercleanner.trash.storage); [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtrlabs.fastcleane…](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtrlabs.fastcleaner.trash)

- Privacy policy: [sites.google.com/view/turbo-cleanerer/privacy-policy](https://sites.google.com/view/turbo-cleanerer/privacy-policy)

- Developer sites: [www.jtrlabs.buzz/](https://www.jtrlabs.buzz/); jtr-labs.com (403); the name-clashing iOS studio [jtrlabs.com/](https://jtrlabs.com/)

- Third-party pages: [appgazers.com/reports/developers/android-JTR+Labs](https://appgazers.com/reports/developers/android-JTR+Labs); [www.appbrain.com/dev/JTR+Labs/](https://www.appbrain.com/dev/JTR+Labs/)

- Background on fake-virus scare ads: [www.malwarebytes.com/blog/mobile/2026/06/fake-virus-alerts-a…](https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/mobile/2026/06/fake-virus-alerts-are-invading-mobile-games); [www.2-spyware.com/remove-cleaner-update-pop-up-scam.html](https://www.2-spyware.com/remove-cleaner-update-pop-up-scam.html); [www.justanswer.com/android-devices/w6wjh-samsung-520-plus-ad…](https://www.justanswer.com/android-devices/w6wjh-samsung-520-plus-adware-black-screen.html)

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.