[ CS-05 // WHAT'S DELETED ]

Recover deleted messages, quietly

A message-recovery app that restores deleted texts, media and statuses by scanning notifications.

UX / UIApp Development

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// Overview

What's Deleted helps users recover deleted messages, images, videos, voice notes and documents by scanning device notifications. It also saves WhatsApp statuses and generates QR codes for Wi-Fi, contacts and locations. As a full-cycle project we owned everything from business analysis to launch.

Audience

Age 15–40

Reach

~1.5 Million

// Process

How we built it

01/

Discovery

3 days

02/

Research

5 days

03/

Sketches

3 days

04/

UI Designs

8 days

05/

Development

22 days

// 01

Discovery

Business analysis, feature scoping and success metrics defined up-front so the design and dev tracks could run in parallel without ambiguity.

// 02

Research

Explored notification-access approaches across Android OS versions, evaluated public APIs, benchmarked competitors and mapped user pain around losing messages before they could be read.

// 03

Design & Build

Calm, clean layouts with vibrant iconography and a make-sense information architecture. Built by our Android team on Kotlin, Firebase and modern Android tooling, adaptive, easy to deploy, easy to extend.

// Problem

×Users lose messages, media and voice notes before they can read them.
×Recovery tools on Android are inconsistent across OS versions.
×Existing apps bundle recovery with heavy ads and unclear permissions.

// Solution

→Scan device notifications to recover deleted texts, images, video, voice and documents.
→Save WhatsApp statuses locally.
→Generate QR codes for Wi-Fi, contacts and locations from one place.
→Calm layouts and clear permission flows.

// Deliverables