Android apps explained the way you would explain them to a friend, not the way a store listing explains them to a shopper.
A store listing is written to persuade, not to clarify. Decoded APKs starts every entry the other way round: a few plain sentences on what the app actually does, before a word is spent on why you might want it.
No feature here is described by what it empowers you to do. If an app sends messages, we say it sends messages. If it wants your location to work, we say why, in the same sentence, not three screens later.
Every page is set down before you open it, so there is no spinner sitting between you and the sentence that tells you what the app does.
If an explanation still reads like jargon, or an app does not have one yet, say so through the contact form and we will rewrite it.
Apps that describe themselves one way and behave another, installers altered to unlock paid features for nothing, and software listed under a developer it does not actually come from. Explaining any of them plainly would mean admitting what they are, so they stay off the site instead.
Decoded APKs is written by people who got tired of translating store listings back into plain English before deciding whether an app was worth installing.
An explanation is rewritten whenever an app changes what it actually does, and entries for apps that stop working as described are removed rather than left inaccurate.
An explanation that needs its own footnotes was not actually plain.
