Stop fake installs on every platform
Simulated app downloads that generate CPI costs without any real users. Select your ad platform below to see exactly how Tapper detects and blocks it.
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Why fake installs costs advertisers so much
The damage goes beyond wasted clicks. Fake installs corrupts your bidding data, distorts your audiences, and erodes the performance of every campaign it touches.
Fake installs are fraudulent mobile app downloads generated by bots or device farms designed to claim cost-per-install payouts without delivering any real users. Fraud networks operate thousands of devices — physical or emulated — that download apps, open them briefly, and trigger attribution events that fool mobile measurement platforms into crediting the install to a legitimate ad source.
The downstream impact extends well beyond the wasted CPI payout. When fake users are attributed to real campaigns, they corrupt day-1, day-7, and day-30 retention metrics. This causes UA teams to incorrectly evaluate which creative, channel, or audience is performing — leading to budget misallocation that compounds over time and undermines the entire user acquisition strategy.
Fake installs by the numbers
Data from Tapper's platform analysis and published industry research.
0%
Of mobile app installs globally are estimated to be fraudulent
$0B
Global ad fraud cost, mobile install fraud a significant share
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ROAS improvement after removing fake installs from attribution
0%
False positive rate — real user installs are never blocked
How Tapper detects and blocks fake installs
Real-time detection and blocking across all your ad platforms, with no engineering required.
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Analyze install signals at attribution time
Tapper examines device fingerprints, install timing patterns, and post-install behavior at the moment of attribution to identify installs that do not match real user characteristics.
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Flag fake installs before payouts trigger
Fraudulent installs are identified and flagged before cost-per-install charges are credited, preventing budget from being paid out for users who will never engage with your app.
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Protect your retention and LTV data
Removing fake installs from your attribution keeps your day-7 retention, in-app event, and LTV data clean, so your UA optimization decisions are based on real user behavior.
Choose your platform
Each platform has its own variation of fake installs. Tapper handles all of them.
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“When we take low-quality traffic out of the funnel before it reaches the algorithm, the campaign optimises against cleaner signals and the efficiency comes through quickly. For AMA Nissan, that was a 40% lift in conversion rate and a lower CPA on Google, with nothing else in the setup changing. That is the kind of result we want to offer clients as a matter of course.”
Sohail Khan
Senior Performance Manager, WPP Media MENA
“We've been using Tapper for over a year now, and it has become a core part of how we run paid media. Invalid traffic was always something we knew existed but couldn't really act on. Tapper changed that. We're now saving up to $50K per year, and on PureSquare specifically, we saw around a 20% decrease in CPA. Based on these results, we decided to roll it out across other ventures under Disrupt as well.”
Nurkan Kirkan
GTM Consultant / Paid Growth, Disrupt.com
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