Let’s be brutally honest. Constantly logging in and out of your secondary accounts is an absolute nightmare. Whether you are dodging an awkward message from your boss in Chicago, balancing multiple client profiles across Europe, or gaming late into the night in Sydney, Android’s default setup makes juggling profiles painfully tedious.

Parallel Space completely bypasses all that nonsense.

It is basically a powerhouse Android tool that lets you clone your apps and run multiple accounts simultaneously. Over 200 million people are already using it, and it easily supports over two dozen languages.

JUGGLE EVERY ACCOUNT ON A SINGLE PHONE

You don’t need to buy and carry around two separate phones anymore. This app lets you maintain a rock solid boundary between your work and personal accounts. If you are a massive mobile gamer, you can finally explore different paths or aggressively level up two accounts at the exact same time without constantly wiping your app data. Everything stays perfectly organized and completely isolated.

GO COMPLETELY INCOGNITO

Privacy is a huge deal. Handing your unlocked phone to a friend to show them a picture is always a little nerve wracking.

Parallel Space has this brilliant Incognito Installation feature that actually makes your cloned apps entirely invisible on your device. You can hide your sensitive stuff in a private, locked down vault away from prying eyes. Secure it with a lock, and you never have to stress about someone digging through your secondary accounts while you aren’t looking.

ONE TAP SWITCHING AND ROCK SOLID TECH

You aren’t jumping through five different menus just to swap profiles. You just tap once, and you are instantly in your other account. It is incredibly stable, too. Fun fact: the whole thing runs on multiDroid, which was literally the very first application virtualization engine built for Android. It’s an absolute beast.

A FEW TECHNICAL QUIRKS TO KEEP IN MIND

Before you go crazy cloning every app on your phone, there are a few ground rules to understand.

First, if a social app requires a mobile number for verification, you obviously still need a second active number to verify that cloned account. And some apps that require heavily locked down secure environments simply won’t clone due to technical limitations.

Also, people always freak out about battery and resource drain. Let’s clear that up right now. Parallel Space itself isn’t eating your battery the cloned apps running inside it are. You can check the built in Task Manager to see exactly what is hogging your storage. Oh, and if you notice you aren’t getting push notifications, you probably need to add Parallel Space to your phone’s memory booster whitelist so it doesn’t get aggressively killed in the background.

The free version generously lets you run two accounts side by side. If you are a power user who needs to juggle even more, you’ll want to grab the Pro upgrade to unlock unlimited cloning.

(A quick nerdy copyright note: This app respects your privacy and utilizes open source software developed by the microG Project under the Apache License 2.0.)