# A call recording App that got 6 stars in 600 days: AVault is someone else's project in a new skin, and the stars were bought · GitHub open-source project

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> Not a real hit: for the first 40 hours it was driven by a batch of newly registered accounts inflating stars and forks. The fake velocity got it onto a few lists that auto-scrape fast-growing repos and onto AI-written news sites, which then produced around twenty curious stars a day.

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# A call recording App that got 6 stars in 600 days: AVault is someone else's project in a new skin, and the stars were bought

**What it is** An open-source Android app that uses Shizuku to record calls without root, then encrypts and locks the recordings. The code is actually the open-source project ShizuCallRecorder with a new name and license.

**Why it blew up** It didn't really: in the first 40 hours, a batch of freshly registered accounts pumped stars and forks. The fake growth got it onto a few charts that auto-scrape "fastest rising" repos, and onto AI-written content sites. That bought about twenty real star-gazers a day.

**E** **How you could follow it** Don't copy it. If you want stars, find another capability that "the system blocks but Shizuku can do" and build it yourself. Post in Android open-source communities the first week, get on F-Droid, and aim for a real spike. The rising charts will find you on their own.

E grade: its stars come from a reskinned GPL project plus paid acquisition. Following it means copying plus gaming, and it can be taken down any time by DMCA or account bans. The legitimate route (root-free call recording) is already taken by the original, a credited fork, and a tens-of-millions-install commercial app. Whispers in the niche

Data (updated daily) · repo created 2026-10-31 · 620 stars

GitHub · stars

Data 2026-11-02 → 2026-11-08 (7 days, 7 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one

An open-source, root-free Android call recorder. Within 40 hours of the repo being created it had 468 stars, and over 6 days it climbed to 618. Look at the code and the package name is still the original author's. Look at the forks and you'll see a batch of accounts registered this year that are already getting banned. It's worth a look because it lays out the whole chain for how a GitHub project gets made into a hit. It's not worth following, and the reason is in that same chain.

### An "Initial release" on the night of Oct 31

On 2026 Oct 31 19:21 (UTC), London-based developer Arpanjot (GitHub account created in 2019, 19 followers) created a repo called AVault. The first commit, titled "Initial release", dropped in 77 Kotlin files, about 16.8k lines of code. The README opens with a big banner reading "Keep the call. Keep it yours." and a line underneath: "A private place for your conversations." It's a free, open-source Android call recorder with an encrypted audio vault.

By Nov 2 it had 468 stars and 27 forks. Its biggest single day was Nov 3, with +70 stars. After that it added +24, +19, and +18 per day, and on the afternoon of Nov 6 it stood at 618 stars (GitHub, 11-06).

Almost none of the 10 commits after that touched features. The titles read: "Optimize repository SEO, discoverability keywords", "add live GitHub stars widget", "add 24 major languages, IP-based country auto-detection", "multilingual SEO".

### What it is, and whose code it is

The feature itself is real. Using Shizuku (a tool that gives ordinary apps ADB-level permissions without root), it records both sides of a call, encrypts the audio into `.vault` files with AES-256-GCM, adds fingerprint/PIN lock, and auto-deletes by day. Only a debug-signed APK was released. It isn't on Play or F-Droid.

But the code is kitsumed's ShizuCallRecorder. That's a GPL-3.0 open-source project that went live in May 2026, billed as "the first root-free open-source call recorder." It's on F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid, has been posted on r/Android and r/fossdroid, and by Nov 6 had about 2,000 stars, growing by roughly ten a day on its own.

Here's what matches:

| Where to look | What you see |
|---|---|
| Source tree | Everything sits under `com/kitsumed/shizucallrecorder/`. AVault's own README mentions this path on line 144. |
| File headers | The original reads "ShizuCallRecorder … Copyright (C) 2026-present kitsumed". The same file in AVault was changed to "AVault … Copyright (C) 2026 AVault Project". |
| License | The original is GPL-3.0. AVault's root directory uses MIT, with the full GPL text moved into a subdirectory. The README's end admits "many source files carry GPL-3.0 headers" and "the maintainer needs to clarify". |
| Developer | Neither the README nor the website mentions ShizuCallRecorder or kitsumed. The original's commit history was squashed into a single "Initial release". |

A tech blog (bytesprint.io, 11-01) wrote a long article based on the README and called it an "MIT-licensed project" outright. As of Nov 6, searching the original author's issue tracker turns up no mention of AVault. He probably doesn't know yet.

The comparison makes it clear. CallVault (madkongo, created in June), which also forked ShizuCallRecorder, opens its description with "Fork of ShizuCallRecorder" and adds a built-in ADB mode that doesn't need Shizuku. It took five months to reach 201 stars, gaining two to nine a day.

### Where the 600 stars came from

**The first 40 hours: bought.** Of the 42 forks, 10-31 came from the late-night-to-midday window of 11-01, and 27 of them came from almost the same batch of accounts. The usernames carry the suffixes GitHub auto-suggests for new accounts (-cmd, -alt, -oss, -ux, -lgtm, -sudo…). Most were registered only 2026 years ago, have 0 followers, and hold dozens of forked repos and hundreds of stars. Two were created and forked the same day 11-01. Between 9:00 and 10:40 a.m. on 11-01, 19 forks landed in an hour and a half, which looks like bulk ordering. By 11-06, at least 10 of these accounts were gone (banned or deleted), and the fork count dropped from 38 to 31 in a day. The star list can't be pulled, so I can't count how many stars were bought one by one, but the fork side is clear (inference, high confidence).

**Doesn't match real users.** With 618 stars, the issues, PRs, and discussions total 0. If people were actually using a call recorder, someone would report "only records one side on X phone." The original's issue tracker is busy with exactly that. Across both versions, the APK has been downloaded only about 343 times (GitHub releases, 11-06), so stars are 1.8 times the downloads. Hacker News, X, and Reddit show no results for it.

**The twenty-odd a day afterward: amplified.** The fake star spike got it onto a chain of sites that auto-scrape repos by "fastest rising": hotrepo.ai, codeKK, WO! Discover (week 2026 #45), and gitrank.cc. Then two sites that look like batch-generated content (bytesprint.io and lockergnome.com) wrote articles about it. These channels brought a small number of real onlookers, so after the +11-03 day on 70 it kept steadily adding about +20 a day.

**Packaging gets onlookers to click star.** The description is packed with keywords: "Call Recorder (No Root Required)", "Android 12-16+", "AES-256-GCM", "biometrics". It has 12 topics, and it ranks high on GitHub's call-recorder topic page. The GitHub Pages site has 24 languages and auto-switches by IP, and the homepage hard-codes "520 GitHub stars" and refreshes it live from an API, treating the star count itself as social proof. A YouTube Short titled "The rootless call recorder that encrypts your audio 🔒" also exists (publisher and view count not checked).

The author's other repo, Datly, has 246 stars and 1 forks. Its star count stayed flat from late October into early November, the same "lots of stars, nobody using it" pattern (inference: same playbook).

### What this chain tells us

Taken apart, AVault's growth rested on four things, and only one of them was its own:

1. **A real need** : after Android 10, third-party apps can barely record the other side of a call, so root-free two-way recording is something many people want. ShizuCallRecorder validated this through organic growth.

2. **A working product** : someone else's code, so the screenshots, docs, and technical details hold up under a quick look.

3. **Fake heat to launch** : hundreds of purchased stars and forks.

4. **Automatic amplifiers** : "rising" aggregators and AI content sites only look at velocity, not whether it's real.

The 4th point is useful to anyone doing open source. The barrier to this exposure chain is low. If a real project manages to spike organically in its first week, the same sites will scrape it too.

### Who's competing for this space

| Project | Where | Scale | Compared with AVault |
|---|---|---|---|
| ShizuCallRecorder(kitsumed) | Open source / F-Droid / IzzyOnDroid | About 2,000 stars, organic growth | AVault's code is the same code |
| CallVault(madkongo) | Open source | 201 star | Credited fork, with a built-in ADB mode |
| BCR(chenxiaolong) | Open source, since 2022 | About 3,000 stars | Established, but requires root |
| ACR Phone(NLL) | Google Play | 6.52M installs | Commercial dialer; by 2026 it had made Shizuku the default recording method |
| Cube ACR and others | Google Play | Cube ACR 56.9M installs | Mostly records only the microphone; on newer Android versions the other side can't be captured |

In root-free call recording, the open-source side has the original and a legitimate fork. The commercial side has long-established players with tens of millions of installs already wired into Shizuku.

### If it were you

**The verdict: don't follow it.** Doing what AVault did (reskinning a GPL project, stripping credit, changing the license, buying stars) gets you a number that the original author can take down by DMCA and that GitHub can wipe with account bans. It won't bring you a single issue or a real user. In open-source circles, reputation is the only thing these stars could ever have bought you, and once someone calls it out, that's gone too.

**Who it's for:** anyone who wants to study GitHub growth chains, reading it as a cautionary tale. Anyone building Android tools should take away the direction: "Shizuku can turn something the system blocks into a root-free app."

**Who it's not for:** anyone planning yet another root-free call recorder. The original, CallVault, and ACR Phone already fill that space, and it's hard to build something that makes people want to star it.

**If you want real stars, try this instead:** find a capability that is also "blocked by the system but doable with Shizuku," then write it yourself or fork it with credit and make a real difference. On day one, post in communities like r/Android and r/fossdroid, and submit to F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid. Aim for an organic spike in the first week, and the "rising" aggregators above will find you on their own.

**What would show this read is wrong:** if AVault's issue tracker starts getting real people reporting device-specific bugs, if APK downloads catch up with stars, or if the original author publicly endorses it, then it's more than manufactured hype and deserves another look.

[GitHub repo ↗](https://github.com/arpanjot-coding/AVault)

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

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ShizuCallRecorder(kitsumed) | Open source | 2026-05-14 | 2,016 stars (11-06), growing organically about 10 a day. Listed on F-Droid/IzzyOnDroid and posted on several Reddit communities. | AVault is the same code with the branding, UI, and "encrypted vault" copy changed. The credit was removed and the license was changed. |
| CallVault(madkongo) | Open source | 2026-06-11 | 201 stars, organic growth | A credited, legitimate fork with a built-in ADB mode that doesn't require Shizuku |
| BCR(chenxiaolong) | Open source | 2022-05 | 2,968 star | Requires root; AVault is root-free |
| ACR Phone(NLL) | Android | Years ago | 6.52M installs on Play (googleplay library) | Commercial dialer; by 2026 it had made Shizuku its default recording method. AVault is free and open-source, and its selling point is encryption. |
| Cube ACR and other general-purpose call recorders | Android | Years ago | Cube ACR 56.9M installs. Several top apps each have tens of millions of installs (Google Play library). | Most only record the mic or rely on accessibility services, and on newer Android they can't capture the other side of the call. AVault (really ShizuCallRecorder's capability) uses Shizuku to capture both sides. |
| Google Phone / Samsung built-in call recording | Big-company features | — | Preinstalled | Built-in recording is region-locked and announces the call. AVault is third-party, installed separately, and doesn't announce. |

Where users come from

- **Verified** **star/fork farming** : the repo reached 40 hours to 468 stars. 11-01 09:03–10:40 saw a burst of 19 forks from 2026-year-old accounts with GitHub's auto-generated suffixes (-cmd/-alt/-ux/-oss etc.). Each has 0 followers and hundreds of stars, and 2 were created the same day. At least 10 fork accounts have since been deleted or banned. Forks dropped by 7 in one day. Stars are 1.8× the APK downloads, and the issue count is 0.

- **Verified** **Repo SEO / topics** : the description is stuffed with keywords, has 12 topics and a dedicated SEO commit, and ranks high on GitHub's call-recorder topic pages.

- **Verified** **Trending aggregator sites** : listed on codeKK, hotrepo.ai, WO! Discover 2026-W45, gitrank.cc, and agent-pulse.

- Inferred **AI content / SEO blogs** : bytesprint.io ran 11-01 long posts, and lockergnome.com ran 11-03 articles. Whether the authors were paid is unverified.

- **Verified** **Landing page + multilingual** : a GitHub Pages site in 24 languages that detects the visitor's country by IP and shows a live star count on the homepage.

- Inferred **YouTube Shorts** : youtube.com/shorts/AvuNPbpP-nI, "The rootless call recorder that encrypts your audio". Uploader and view count not retrieved.

## AVault (arpanjot-coding/AVault): how did it get this far?

> Bottom line: **it wasn't really built from scratch.** AVault is a reskinned copy of the open-source project ShizuCallRecorder (by kitsumed, GPL-3.0,2026-05, about 2,000 stars). The package name is unchanged, the copyright headers were replaced, and the root LICENSE was switched to MIT. Its stars mostly came from star/fork farming in the first 36 hours. The small amount of organic growth since then came from trending aggregators and AI content sites drawn in by the fake heat. What's worth learning is the GitHub star-farming playbook, not the product.

Research date: 2026-11-06. Data sources: GitHub API / GraphQL (live that day), our github repo_day table, hackernews table, googleplay table, Jina/Brave search, x-radar.

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### 1. What it is

- A root-free Android call recording app wrapped in an "encrypted vault" pitch. It uses Shizuku (ADB-level permissions) to capture both sides of a call, then encrypts them with AES-256-GCM into `.vault` files, with biometric/PIN lock and automatic cleanup.

- The repo was created 2026-10-31 19:21 UTC. It's written in Kotlin, with 77 .kt files and roughly 16.8k lines. Only debug-signed APKs were released (v2.0.0, v2.0.1). It isn't on F-Droid or the Play Store.

- The author is Arpanjot (GitHub account registered 2019 years ago, based in London, 19 followers). His other 2026-year-old project, Datly, has 246 stars but only 1 forks. Its daily star count has been flat from 10-27 to 11-06 (249→246), the same "lots of stars, nobody uses it" pattern.

### 2. Key finding: it's a reskinned copy

| Evidence | Sources |
|---|---|
| The source package name is `com.kitsumed.shizucallrecorder`, and all Kotlin files sit under `app/src/main/java/com/kitsumed/shizucallrecorder/`. | Found after cloning the repo. AVault's own README mentions this path on line 144. |
| The original author's file header reads `ShizuCallRecorder ... Copyright (C) 2026-present kitsumed (Med) ... GPL v3 or later, with additional terms`. In AVault, the same file `AppUrls.kt` has its header changed to `AVault: Secure Hardware-Encrypted Call Management, Copyright (C) 2026 AVault Project`, and only the URLs were swapped for AVault's. | Compared against raw.githubusercontent.com/kitsumed/ShizuCallRecorder/main/.../AppUrls.kt |
| The original project is GPL-3.0. AVault's root LICENSE says MIT ("AVault Project"), and the full GPL text was moved into a LICENSES/ directory. That's why GitHub shows NOASSERTION, and the bytesprint article simply called it a "MIT-licensed project". | GitHub API; bytesprint.io article |
| Neither the README nor the website says it's a fork of ShizuCallRecorder, and the original author isn't credited. The commit history is one big "Initial release" commit, which erases the original project's history. | Commit history (11 commits since 10-31 19:21) |
| Most of the next 10 commits are cosmetic or promotional: "Optimize repository SEO, discoverability keywords", "add live GitHub stars widget", "add 24 major languages, IP-based country auto-detection", "multilingual SEO". | Commit history |

Control case: madkongo/CallVault (2026-06-11) is also a fork of ShizuCallRecorder, but its description honestly says "Fork of ShizuCallRecorder" and it has real changes like a standalone ADB mode. As of 11-06 it has 201 stars and organically gains 2–9 per day (github repo_day table).

### 3. How the stars came: evidence of farming

**Timeline** (GitHub API + github repo_day table):

- 10-31 19:21: repo created → 11-02: when we first sampled it, it already had **468 stars / 27 forks** , less than 40 hours later.

- 11-03 538 (+70, the single-day peak), 11-04 562 (+24), 11-05 581 (+19), 11-06 599 (figure from the table), and by that afternoon the live API showed 618.

- Forks fell from 11-05 on 38 to 11-06 on 31, **down 7 in one day** . That fits farming accounts being banned and deleted by GitHub, taking their forks with them.

**Fork account profiles** (checked one by one via GraphQL, 42 forks in total):

- 10-31 19:36 to 11-01 13:34: 27 forks, nearly all from accounts whose usernames carry the suffixes GitHub suggests to new users (`-cmd`, `-alt`, `-ux`, `-oss`, `-arch`, `-svg`, `-jpg`, `-hue`, `-lgtm`, `-netizen`, `-gif`, `-beep`, `-cyber`, `-sudo`, `-ops`).
    - Most accounts we could look up were **registered 2026 years ago, with 0 followers, a few dozen forked repos, and hundreds of stars** . Examples: memoriswhyk-hub (registered 2026-10-19, 0 followers, 37 repos); dinislam59783-svg (registered 2026-08-27, starred 279); meskmahmoud740-lgtm (registered 2026-08-16, starred 248).
    - gsecrets405-gif and karolorfboev-ops were **both created 11-01** and forked it the same day.
    - **At least 10** can no longer be found (banned or deleted): mamaevayna978-alt, kostoma418-oss, ashaakterfca02, alializadeh3555-netizen, anuu4628-cyber, ha4997013-sudo, kevinn12234, ilflyome-jpg, foridalipi2457, zarqab686-hue.
    - 11-01 09:03–10:40: 19 forks came in within this one and a half hours, a classic batch order.

- After 11-01 in the evening, the forks switched to older accounts: gmh5225 (an auto-fork account with 38,660 repos), jn7163, caishuai, alanzou, shenzhigang, and other "bookmark-style" accounts from the Chinese developer community. These came from the aggregator exposure afterward, in small numbers.

- The star list couldn't be pulled: GraphQL returned totalCount=0 and REST was rate-limited, so the starring accounts couldn't be checked one by one. The farming signs on the forks are clear enough, though.

**Doesn't match real usage** :

- 618 stars, but the issues, PRs, and discussions are **all 0** . Real users of a call recorder would certainly report things like "only one side recorded on model X". The original ShizuCallRecorder's issue tracker is very active.

- Both versions of the APK have been downloaded only about **343 times** in total (91+59+193, per the GitHub releases API). Stars are 1.8× the downloads.

- HN (hackernews table) and X (x-radar, 30 days) turn up nothing for AVault. Reddit also has no AVault threads (Brave/Jina).

### 4. Growth channel breakdown

| Channel | Evidence | Confirmed? |
|---|---|---|
| Bought stars/forks (farming) | The fork-account profiles above, the drop in forks after bans, stars far exceeding downloads, and 0 issues. | Fork farming is confirmed. Star farming is a strong inference (the star list couldn't be pulled). |
| Repo SEO / topics keyword stuffing | The description is packed with "Call Recorder (No Root Required)", "Android 12-16+", "AES-256-GCM". It has 12 topics and a dedicated SEO commit, and it ranks high on GitHub's "call-recorder / android-call-recorder / call-recording" topic pages. | Confirmed |
| Auto-reposted by "rising" aggregators | codeKK (p.timeshining.com), hotrepo.ai, WO! Discover (2026-W45), gitrank.cc, and agent-pulse's "Rising GitHub repository" all list it. These sites scrape repos by star velocity, so fake heat gets amplified. | Confirmed |
| AI content / SEO blogs | bytesprint.io posted a long-form piece 11-01 walking through the encryption design straight from the README and calling it MIT; lockergnome.com 11-03 published a post titled "encrypted vault needs a reality check" with the tone of bulk AI writing | Coverage confirmed; who commissioned the pieces is unverified. |
| Landing page + 24 languages + IP-based country detection | docs/ GitHub Pages site. The homepage hardcodes "520 GitHub stars" (a snapshot from 11-02), then refreshes it live via the API, using the star count as trust signal. | Confirmed |
| YouTube Shorts | "The rootless call recorder that encrypts your audio 🔒" (youtube.com/shorts/AvuNPbpP-nI). Publisher and view count not retrieved. | Partly confirmed |
| HN / Reddit / X organic spread | Nothing found in search | No |

### 5. Competitors

| Product | Where | Launched | Scale | How AVault differs from it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ShizuCallRecorder(kitsumed) | Open source / F-Droid / IzzyOnDroid | 2026-05-14 | 2,016 stars (11-06), 07-26 to 10-25 up about 820, then growing roughly 10 a day; r/Android, r/fossdroid, r/foss, and r/BestGitHubRepos all had posts, and there's a YouTube tutorial. | **AVault is that project's code** , with only the brand, UI colors, and copy swapped. The marketing leans harder on "encrypted vault." The original already had encryption and a lock. |
| CallVault(madkongo) | Open source / ShizuStore | 2026-06-11 | 201 star | A credited fork that adds a built-in ADB mode so Shizuku isn't required. It grew organically, the slow honest way. |
| BCR(chenxiaolong) | Open source | 2022-05 | 2,968 star | Needs root; a long-standing word-of-mouth project |
| ACR Phone(NLL) | Play | Years | 6.52M installs (googleplay library) | A commercial dialer that made Shizuku its default recording method 2026 years ago (per the r/NLLACR announcement), eating the "two-way recording without root" selling point. |
| Generic "Call Recorder" apps like Cube ACR | Play | Years | Cube ACR: 56.9M installs / 910k ratings; the top few each have tens of millions of installs. | Most record only the microphone or rely on accessibility, and they perform poorly from Android 10 onward. That gap is AVault's pitch. |
| System-built recorders like Google Phone or Samsung's | Big-company features | — | Preinstalled | Region-locked, and they announce "recording in progress." |

### 6. Why it "broke through"

1. **Star inflation** : 40 hours to reach 468 stars, with fork accounts created in bulk during the same window, most of them registered 2026 years ago. At least 10 have already been banned; the fork count dropped by 7 in one day.

2. **Borrowed a real product** : the code works (it's ShizuCallRecorder), so the landing page, screenshots, and technical docs hold up to a glance. "Rootless call recording" is also a real need among Android users; ShizuCallRecorder organically reaching 2k stars proves it.

3. **A loop between aggregator sites and AI content sites** : the fake star velocity got it onto "trending" lists like hotrepo, codeKK, WO Discover, and gitrank. AI-written news sites then covered it, bringing in a few real curious stars. That's why, after the 11-03 spike of +70, it kept running at +18 to +24 a day.

4. **Packaging** : a catchy title, 12 topics, a landing page in 24 languages, star counts on the homepage, and security language like "hardware-encrypted vault."

### 7. Differentiation

- Functionally it has **almost no differentiation** , because the code comes straight from ShizuCallRecorder. The only difference is the story: the original sells "rootless recording," while AVault sells the same capability as a "privacy-encrypted vault."

- That narrative difference isn't why it took off. Brushing and aggregator amplification did that.

### 8. Visibility and copycats

- Visibility: **it circulates in small circles** , mostly bouncing between machine-run aggregators and AI content sites. There's no real community discussion and no KOL reposts. HN, X, and Reddit all come up empty.

- Copycats: found no one copying AVault. It's itself a copycat of ShizuCallRecorder.

- Risk: stripping the copyright headers and relabeling GPL as MIT violates GPL-3.0 §4 and §5 on preserving copyright notices. If the original author notices, a DMCA takedown or public callout is likely.

### 9. What to borrow

- For our data recall, GitHub star signals are easy to contaminate. A few filters to add: ① the share of fork accounts that are 2026-year-old new or deleted accounts; ② whether fork counts are falling; ③ the star-to-release-download ratio, with issue count at 0; ④ package name or namespace not matching the repo name (reskinned repos usually don't bother renaming the package).

- For people building real products: the demand for "rootless call recording" was already validated by ShizuCallRecorder and NLL ACR Phone. The exposure chain of "trending" aggregators plus AI content sites is real, and the barrier to entry is very low.

### 10. Still unclear

- The star list wasn't retrievable, so I didn't verify how many stars were bought one by one. The figures are inferred from fork accounts only.

- Who posted the YouTube Short and its view count weren't retrieved.

- Unverified whether the lockergnome / bytesprint articles were commissioned by the author or auto-scraped from the site.

- Why would the author do this (for a job résumé?) is unverified. His Datly repo shows the same "lots of stars, 1 forks" pattern, so likely the same playbook.

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