Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

4recommend
0warn against
Nov 11, 2025first mention
Oct 11, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forisolating apps like whatsappquarantining untrusted appssandboxing android apps

Why people recommend it

“a private space or work profile with Shelter can work in a a pinch”

“things like Shelter, which uses work profiles and which I use to quarantine certain less-trusted apps?”

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“Shelter, a shell with reproducible operations and git-like branches of the filesystem”

Caveats and dissent

No one in these comments warned against it.

Who recommends it in their own words

From the makers not counted in the ranking

“a protocol and platform for building rich decentralised rich (web) applications with end-to-end-encryption”

All comments 4

“a private space or work profile with Shelter can work in a a pinch”

“things like Shelter, which uses work profiles and which I use to quarantine certain less-trusted apps?”

“Shelter, a shell with reproducible operations and git-like branches of the filesystem”

Threads where it came up

Data: shelter.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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