The invention relates to the field of mobile communication, in particular to a mobile traffic management method and a mobile traffic management system. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, acquiring a priority level sequence set for various app (applocation) software in a mobile telephone; 2, when the mobile telephone is in a standby state, judging whether the operating app software meets the preset priority level sequence or not according to the priority level sequence set by the app software, if the operating app software meets the preset priority level sequence, ensuring that the app software continues to operate, and if the operating app software does not meet the preset priority level sequence, immediately ending an app software process. The mobile traffic management method and the mobile traffic management device have the beneficial effects that furtive traffic losses are prevented under a condition of unnecessary app software operation; meanwhile, according to the demands and interests of a user, the traffic is saved, monitoring for various app software in the mobile telephone is ensured, a monitoring table is generated, and the traffic of various app software in the mobile telephone of the user is regularly reported or quantitatively reported.