Android app · public beta
Backbench,
on your phone.
Your whole semester in one small app — attendance maths, notes and past papers, exam and cram mode. Reminders arrive even with the app closed, files save straight to your phone, and it opens with no signal.
You are in the app — version 0.5.0. It is up to date.
Back to your semester- Version 0.6.0
- 10.8 MB
- Android 7.0 or later
- Free, no ads
On a computer? Scan the code with your phone’s camera — or download the file here to copy it across.
The Android app does not run on iPhone. On iPhone, Backbench installs from Safari in ten seconds — same app, same account.
Installing
A minute, and it is on your home screen.
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Download
Tap Download for Android. The app saves to your phone’s Downloads — 10.8 MB, a few seconds on mobile data.
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Allow it once
Open the file. Backbench comes from this website, not the Play Store, so Android asks once: tap Settings, turn on Allow from this source, and go back.
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Install and open
Tap Install, then Open. A short welcome walks you in; sign up or log in, and your semester is there.
If Google Play Protect offers to scan the app, let it — it checks the file and lets you install. Backbench asks for one permission, notifications, and only when you turn reminders on.
Why the app
Everything the website does, and the things only an app can.
After each class: “were you there?” — tap Present or Bunked on the notification. Your 75% maths updates without opening the app.
Everything is on your phone first, so it opens on the train, in the basement lab, anywhere. It syncs when you are back.
Notes, past papers and your exports save to Downloads/Backbench. PDFs open in your phone’s own viewer.
We watch your university’s result page. The moment a result or grade card is up, it is on your phone.
New features reach the app the moment they go live. When a new version is out, the app tells you.
About 11 MB with the scan and PDF engines inside, so they work offline. No ads, no trackers, no contacts or location. Optional fingerprint lock.
Not on Android?
Same Backbench, same account, everywhere.
The file, for the careful
- App
- Backbench for Android · 0.6.0 public beta
- Package
- com.arvelic.backbench
- Made by
- Arvelic, India — signed with Arvelic’s own key
- Released
- 2026-10-19
- Size
- 10.8 MB
- Needs
- Android 7.0 or later
- Permissions
- Internet, notifications (asked when you turn reminders on), restart reminders after a reboot
- SHA-256
- ee95c2c67fc4396b8a34546b5cc167aab7560823b71f3e1c4c4afa69e8c6b6fe
The address joinbackbench.com/apk always gives the newest version. Only download Backbench from joinbackbench.com.