# Leave the emulator behind

> Emulators fail Play Integrity and every copy shares one fingerprint. Distilled cloud phones pass it and identify as a Google Pixel 7, 7 Pro or 7a.

Emulators are free and quick to start, and apps spot them just as fast. A Distilled phone runs the same apps, passes Play Integrity and identifies as a Google Pixel, on a US mobile IP of its own.

## How apps spot an emulator

Apps read the phone's model, build, sensors and kernel, and an emulator gets some of them wrong. Snapchat, X and many other apps also ask Google's Play Integrity whether the device is genuine, and an emulator fails that check.

## Every copy looks the same

Clone an emulator and each copy carries the same device details, so the accounts on them are linked. No two Distilled phones share a device identity.

## Moving your accounts over

Install the same apps and log each account in on its own phone. The app sees a new device, so it may ask you to confirm the login.

If you drove the emulator with scripts, the REST API and the TypeScript SDK take taps, typing and swipes. Or write the steps in English and an agent follows them by reading the screen.

## What it costs

An emulator is free until its accounts get banned. A Distilled phone costs $50 a month, or $0.28 an hour while it runs, and nothing runs on your computer.

## Every phone comes with

- **Its own US mobile IP.** Checked for a clean history before you get it. Or use your own proxy.
- **2 GB of traffic a month.** Then $2 a GB. Traffic through your own proxy is never charged.
- **$10 of agent use a month.** Shared across your phones. After that, $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens.
- **Identifies as a Google Pixel.** A Pixel 7, 7 Pro or 7a, checked when the phone starts and every 6 hours.
- **Play Integrity.** Passes at the strong level, Google's highest.
- **Any Android app.** From the Play Store, our app catalog, or your own APK.

## Questions

**Is there an Android emulator that passes Play Integrity?**

Not at the device or strong level. At most, Google gives an emulator its own virtual verdict, which apps that ask for device integrity don't accept. A Distilled phone passes all three levels and runs the same apps.

**Which Android versions?**

Android 13 to 16, and you pick one when you get the phone.

**Will my accounts get banned?**

No one can promise that, because apps also judge what an account does. We give each account its own device and its own IP, the two things that get accounts linked and banned together.

Source: https://distilled.cx/use-cases/android-emulator-alternative/