AppNana 2.4.7 has been released

An update of the AppNana app was released on 19 Jan 2015: version 2.4.7 is the current version.
You can find the AppNana version number on the bottom of the 'Invite' tab.


AppNana announces the exact same features that were already introduced in 2.4.6.

On the Google Play 'What's New' information section they also claim'Add Random Free Nanas on Get Nanas page. Feeling Luck? Check out every day to see if you can find some random free Nanas.', but that has been around in the app for quite a while now and cannot really be called 'new'.

Furthermore they claim to 'Add Italian, Spanish, German, French languages support', but also those options were already available. So my guess (again) is that means AppNana is just improving the language files instead and having some quick bug fixes.

If you know of other tweeks or modifications on this app that I might have missed; please feel free to add it to the comments!

Exchange your code with mine: n6215050 and I will definitely try to return the favor!

See also my blog article about the daily return bonus.

AppNana 2.4.6 is out!

Last weekend an update of the AppNana app was released: version 2.4.6 is the current version.
You can find the AppNana version number on the bottom of the 'Invite' tab.
Brazil has been added to the country drop-down list of the 'Rewards' tab. They added language support for (Brazilian-)Portuguese.
I also noticed as per this version the Nana Offers 3 (Recommended) returns 'Sorry, No offers'.

On the Google Play 'What's New' information section they also claim'Add Random Free Nanas on Get Nanas page. Feeling Luck? Check out every day to see if you can find some random free Nanas.', but that has been around in the app for quite a while now and cannot really be called 'new'.

Furthermore they claim to 'Add Italian, Spanisch, German, French languages support', but also those options were already available. So my guess is that means AppNana is just improving the language files instead.

If you know of other tweeks or modifications on this app that I might have missed; please feel free to add it to the comments!

Exchange your code with mine: n6215050 and I will definitely try to return the favor!

See also my blog article about the daily return bonus.

Appnana version 2.4.5

Last Saturday I noticed an update of the AppNana app: version 2.4.5 had been released.
Apparently 2.4.4 has been skipped?
You can find the version number on the bottom of the 'Invite' tab.

Personally I don't see any changes. Might have been some bug fixed on the 'Random Free Nanas' on the 'Get Nanas' page, as that is announced as 'What's New' on the Google Apps page.

If you know of other tweeks or modifications on this app that I might have missed; please feel free to add it to the comments!

Exchange your code with mine: n6215050 and I will definitely try to return the favor!

AppNana behind the scenes: offer suppliers

In Europe, these offers are supplied:
Nana Offers section one: the AppNana app connects to present offers hosted by aarki.net Website: http://www.aarki.com/
Nana Offers section two: advertisements are delivered by appclick.co NativeX (their privacy policy states they cannot be held liable for anything that exceeds a total of $10.00). Website: http://nativex.com/
Nana Offers section three: temporarily no offers (26-11-2014)
Nana Offers section four: videos are offered by Vungle and AdColony
Nana Offers section five: contains offers provided by TrialPay
Nana Offers section six: offers by TokenAds.
        NOTE : In my opnion this section contains very questionable contents
                     with SMS text message subscriptions.

AppNana behind the scenes: what is send with an offer?

When clicking on one of the AppNana offers from the first Appnana Offers section, when actually clicking the following is happening:

The AppNana app connects to aarki.net (to be prcecise: http://hs.aarki.net/adpick/garden), and with a lot of parameters. A lot of your personal phone information is handed out!

Here is an example of a call from my Dutch HTC phone:

http://hs.aarki.net/adpick/garden?
src=49D4B67277BAA3E4AA
&xbtn=y
&platform=android
&sdk_version=3.0
&device_platform=android/4.2.2
&device_model=HTC One X
&device_manufacturer=HTC
&device_brand=htc
&device_product=htc_europe
&uixe=6c1c1b586f671f0f101a07406f686f
&pixe=691b195466671f401314014e606869
&dixe=631b1d5a6b65194414120716696d6f61
&nixe=6b4d100f6f6816411f42034d3d6c64300a
&user_agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.2.2; en-nl; HTC One X Build/JDQ39) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30
&app_sec_key=TfSMSG6o3wrtFGzBKhIhG33Vf60N
&advertising_id=06484d41-c02f-490f-997c-67465feae167
&tracking_limited=n
&package_name=com.appnana.android.giftcardrewards
&country_code=NL
&current_locale=en_NL

As you can see, my AppNana number n6215050 is probably somewhere encrypted in one of the uixe, pixe, dixe and/or nixe parameters.

Aarki.net is the production advertisement domain of aarki.com, a media advertisement company.

This all seems within the bounderies of the standard AppNana app  permissions.

Is the AppNana hack for real?

At a certain moment I came across this web page; that claims to have hacked the AppNana app so one could have unlimited nanas.
Now that does sounds too good to be true.

I don't dare to mess around with my account, and personally I think this is the equivalent of stealing. So I would not recommend it to anyone or anybody.

Still, it is such an intriguing fact, that until this day I'm very curious if this is really possible?

Let me know in the comments what your opinion and/or experience is?

Is Mapiz, the creator of AppNana, safe?

Browsing to a non-existing page like http://s.mapiz.com/appjoy reveals (on 29-Oct-2014) that nginx/1.1.19 is being used. However, Nginx 1.6.2 is the current stable version.

This might make the Mapiz website possibly vulnerable.

An e-mail has been send to support@Mapiz.com at 29-10-2014 to inform them.
However, no reply was received yet.

Comments or advisories are welcome!