The famous benchmark app AnTuTu was suddenly removed from the Play Store

AnTuTu Benchmark is one of the most popular smartphone performance scoring software on the market today. Through this application, users will get a correlation number to compare the hardware power between devices, or between variants of the same smartphone model, based on available evaluation criteria. .

While it's unclear whether the benchmark scores obtained from AnTuTu are completely reliable to evaluate the performance of a phone, according to the latest report, all three AnTuTu applications including AnTuTu 3D Benchmark, AnTuTu Benchmark and AITuTu Benchmark have just suddenly disappeared from the Google Play Store.

According to data from the AppBrain analysis site , the latest update of the AITuTu Benchmark application was released on February 13, while AnTuTu Benchmark was last updated on February 7. At the moment, it is unclear exactly when the three apps will be removed from the Play Store, but until February 22, they were still on the official Google website.

AnTuTu seems to be owned by Cheetah Mobile

It is not natural that AnTuTu was removed from Google Play Store because according to reports, these applications are likely owned by Cheetah Mobile. Last month, Google removed more than 600 annoying ads from Cheetah Mobile on the Play Store, including many familiar ones like Clean Master, CM Browser, PhotoGrid, and more.

Cheetah Mobile applications have been removed from the Google Play Store.

If you do not know, Cheetah Mobile is one of the largest developers on Google Play, based in China and has been repeatedly accused of fraudulent business, violating advertising policies. and Google security.

The above speculation is even more grounded when the "Privacy Policy" section of AnTuTu on Google Play page again links to Cheetah Mobile's website. In particular, according to the enterprise database provided by Tianyancha , AnTuTu president / manager Fu Sheng is also the CEO of Cheetah Mobile.

On the official website, AnTuTu has now removed all links to the Google Play Store and completely replaced with a new link, allowing users to directly download the APK of the application for manual installation.

Apparently, the mysterious disappearance of AnTuTu on Google Play has posed a "big question mark" for many users. In addition, it also made many people suspicious of privacy, whether AnTuTu was removed for violating security policies like other Cheetah Mobile applications.