This Android app lets you quickly find all your WiFi passwords

This Monday morning we wanted to talk to you about a very practical application: WiFi Key Recovery. The idea is to give you access to a list of all the WiFi networks you’ve connected to before, with their passwords – just to prevent you from twisting, for example, to read the label tucked in the bottom of your box, itself is cramped up. When a guest asks you for internet access, enter immediately. Some password managers may take care of creating a list that you can refer to in “plain text” afterwards. But this application is an instant solution for those who want to read all the passwords of the networks you have been connected to since using your smartphone.

Find all the passwords of the WiFi networks you are connected to with this Android app

To work, WiFi Key Recovery parse (i.e. “reads” and detects text elements to present in the app) wpa_supplicant Manages connection to WiFi networks on Android. Being able to read this file means your smartphone is rooted – a prerequisite if you want to test this app. You can follow our tutorial to find out if your device is rooted. If necessary, you can find up-to-date information about rooting your smartphone in our forum. The application has a simple interface: it displays a list of encrypted networks. A search field lets you find the password for a particular network without having to browse through the entire list.

The entire list can be exported as a text file. You can also share them via the system sharing options common to all apps. Finally, an option lets you share each of the individual entries via a QR Code; this is enough to prevent your guests from entering a potentially complex string of characters each time. To install WiFi Key Recovery, nothing could be easier: the application is in the Play Store, so you can install it via the link at the end of the article – we repeat, provided that your smartphone is rooted…

WiFi Key Recovery on Google Play Store

Some of our readers tell us that this app does not work on some smartphones. there is still Another method to access your WiFi passwords without this app. You still need a rooted smartphone for this:

• Download a file explorer that supports root
• In your smartphone’s internal memory, navigate to: data/miscellaneous/wifi
• Open wpa_supplicant.conf in a text file preview editor
• Find the SSID whose password you are looking for
• Network password is after psk below=”

If you know more practical methods, please feel free to share that we have included them in this tutorial. Please note that this is not about sharing apps to guess passwords to WiFi networks you have never accessed (potentially illegal)!