There are many people installing APKs from various sites, so we decided to make a step in and recommend only the safest ones - and we only recommend to use them if PlayStore is not an option!

In short, we are recommending only these 2 sites: ApkMirror & ApkPure and below you can find the reasons & risks we considered:

Reasons for using APK sites:
* Play Store is not available in some countries
* Bypass geographical restrictions (some apps are regional tied and can only be downloaded from specific countries)
* Allow updates to popular apps that are rolling out slowly and may not yet be available to you to be downloaded and installed yet
* Rollback to a specific version of your favorite app
* Avoid paying for app paid version

Risks:
* APKs might contain viruses (those installed from Play Store are verified by Google and in case of any suspicion they are automatically removed from Play Store!)
* APKs might terrible slow down your smartphone! (again those APKs are not performance tested by Google!)
* APKs might simply steal information (messages) from your phone and share it with 3rd parties – this is especially dangerous if you want to use a mod on top of a communication app (e.g. WhatsApp mod)

Full blog post here: https://gadgetgists.com/best-apk-sites/

If you have examples of APKs which caused you issues (slow down, virus, pop-up, ads) - please share them!