Hypatia

Hypatia is a free and open-source malware scanner for Android that aims to provide on-device, real-time scanning with minimal battery and resource impact using signature-based detection inspired by ClamAV style databases. Designed as an Android app, it scans user filesystems and installed applications either on demand or in real time when files are written or renamed, operating completely offline aside from occasional signature database downloads. The project is offered under an AGPL-3.0 license and is archived in its original repository, reflecting a historical effort to create a community-reviewable FOSS security tool for Android devices. Hypatia’s design targets performance and efficiency, keeping memory usage modest and enabling users to control which signature sets are active. Its real-time file observation uses multi-threaded scanning to leverage device CPU resources while striving for a negligible user experience impact.