TWRP Coordinator allow you to install the latest version of TWRP recovery on your rooted device, choose multiple operations to do in recovery, secure the app with a password or hide it from launcher and require a dialer code to access.
The main differences between TWRP Coordinator and TWRP Manager seem to be:
TWRP Coordinator:
- ability to lock the application
- ability to hide the application
- Ad free
- Coordinator seems to be less intuitive when you want to make a backup
- Ability to save backup to external SD card
TWRP Manager:
- Offers live backup in premium version. No need to take your phone offline to back the device up.
- More intuitive
- Ads or pay
- Options for compress/no compress
- Themes
- Choose to not generate an MD5, saves a lot of time
There’s a warning on the download page about that this may be a bug with SuperUser and to use SuperSU, however I don’t seem to fall into those categories and it detects after it installed. Oh well… weirdness happens.
Something else I noticed that was odd is that the Coordinator does not recognize my external SD backups. This isn’t a particularly horrible occurrence as I can get them via recovery, but it is kind defeats the purpose of it on my device.
There’s no option to define where the external SD card is, and it claims it’s an empty folder when I go to manage the backups (it’s not.) Something to note however is that TWRP Manager now is claiming that they’re only able to back up to the internal storage because of changes made to TWRP recently, so perhaps external is just something that’s out of reach for a while from Android-based recovery scripters.
At the moment, neither of the managers offer a comprehensive complete solution for recovery management from Android, at least not on my M8, although Manager seems to offer more things I like than Coordinator as I don’t particularly have a need to hide the application and I generally skip MD5 as I’ve got backups in the cloud of anything I might need.
One interesting thing to note is that the application name of TWRP Coordinator is com.KingCobraInc.twrpmanager which makes me think they didn’t set out looking for their competition when they started this project out.
Download: Google Play