An application calling management method, the application being installed in a terminal, the method executable by the terminal, and the method comprising: acquiring (101, 201) a background calling message sent by a first application, wherein the background calling message is a message to start another application in the background, and wherein the background calling message requests at least one target application, and the target application is an application to be called by the first application; determining (102, 202) a calling rule of a current calling, according to the background calling message, wherein the calling rule comprises at least one of a caller, a callee, a called operation for the current calling, a called class name for the current calling and a calling type for the current calling; if a first calling rule matching the calling rule of the current calling exists in a terminal-disallowing-calling list, determining (103, 203) from the at least one target application at least one application disallowed to be called according to the first calling rule, wherein the terminal-disallowing-calling list comprises at least one calling rule for controlling disallowance of calling, and the at least one application disallowed to be called is all or some of the at least one target application; and disallowing (104, 204) starting in background the application disallowed to be called; characterised in that the calling rule of the current calling comprises a callee for the current calling, and determining the calling rule of the current calling according to the background calling message comprises: acquiring an application identification carried by the background calling message, and determining a target application indicated by the application identification as the callee for the current calling, or acquiring target operation information carried by the background calling message, and determining among locally installed applications a target application, which supports an operation corresponding to the target operation information, as the callee for the current calling. acquiring (101, 201) a background calling message sent by a first application, wherein the background calling message is a message to start another application in the background, and wherein the background calling message requests at least one target application, and the target application is an application to be called by the first application; determining (102, 202) a calling rule of a current calling, according to the background calling message, wherein the calling rule comprises at least one of a caller, a callee, a called operation for the current calling, a called class name for the current calling and a calling type for the current calling; if a first calling rule matching the calling rule of the current calling exists in a terminal-disallowing-calling list, determining (103, 203) from the at least one target application at least one application disallowed to be called according to the first calling rule, wherein the terminal-disallowing-calling list comprises at least one calling rule for controlling disallowance of calling, and the at least one application disallowed to be called is all or some of the at least one target application; and disallowing (104, 204) starting in background the application disallowed to be called; characterised in that the calling rule of the current calling comprises a callee for the current calling, and determining the calling rule of the current calling according to the background calling message comprises: acquiring an application identification carried by the background calling message, and determining a target application indicated by the application identification as the callee for the current calling, or acquiring target operation information carried by the background calling message, and determining among locally installed applications a target application, which supports an operation corresponding to the target operation information, as the callee for the current calling. acquiring an application identification carried by the background calling message, and determining a target application indicated by the application identification as the callee for the current calling, or acquiring target operation information carried by the background calling message, and determining among locally installed applications a target application, which supports an operation corresponding to the target operation information, as the callee for the current calling.