For anyone using any Simple Mobile Tools app be aware that they were sold few days ago (4 dec 2023) to a very privacy unfriendly company:
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241
Is suggested to remove them or stop updating them.
BTW the company is an israeli publisher that buys apps and fills them with ads asking weekly fees to avoid them…
Someone has made an alternatives list: https://libreddit.nullnet.services/r/SimpleMobileTools/comments/18929pq/simplemobiletools_was_sold_alternatives/
One of the dev of SMT has forked them: https://github.com/FossifyX
And another group of dev announced a fork too: https://github.com/goastian
News Source on Telegram: https://t.me/Libreware/1210
FWIW, QuickPic Pro ad-free is available by Cheetah Mobile the company who bought it. Also a modded fork of the last verion before it was bundled with ads is available from github.
Cheetah Mobile aren’t exactly well known for their business ethics. Partly why a lot of folks bailed.