AV-TEST: The best Antivirus Apps for Android (November 2025)
Dear media partners, dear friends of the AV-TEST Institute,
12 mobile security apps for Android were reviewed by the AV-TEST Institute in November 2025. We focused on realistic test scenarios, covering the areas of Protection, Performance, Usability and Features for all apps and services.
The attached data can be used to create at-a-glance overviews or statistics of the test results, starting immediately (there is no embargo). You are free to use the results as a basis for your own reviews, as long as a reference to "AV-TEST Institute" – with an active link to our website www.av-test.org – is given as source. Thank you!
The screenshots of all tested products, as well as older test results, can be downloaded at www.av-test.org/…. The following 12 antivirus products for home users were tested:
- Avast Antivirus & Security
- AVG AntiVirus FREE
- Avira Antivirus Security
- Bitdefender Mobile Security
- F-Secure Total Security & VPN
- Google Play Protect
- Kaspersky Kaspersky Premium for Android
- McAfee Mobile Security
- Naver Antivirus
- Norton Norton 360
- Sophos Intersept X for Mobile
- TotalAV Mobile Security
Download Charts 11/2025
Please contact us if you have any questions. Press contact:
Erik Heyland, presse@av-test.com
Phone: +49 391 6075460
AV-TEST is an independent supplier of services in the fields of IT Security and Antivirus Research, focusing on the detection and analysis of the latest malicious software and its use in comprehensive comparative testing of security products.
Due to the timeliness of the testing data, malware can instantly be analyzed and categorized, trends within virus development can be detected early, and IT-security solutions can be tested and certified. The AV-TEST Institute’s results provide an exclusive basis of information helping vendors to optimize their products, special interest magazines to publish research data, and end users to make good product choices.
AV-TEST has operated out of Magdeburg (Germany) since 2004 and employs more than 30 team members, professionals with extensive practical experience. The AV-TEST laboratories include 500 client and server systems, where more than 3,500 terabyte of independently-collected test data, containing both malicious and harmless sample information, are stored and processed.
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