Is Pocket Sense safe?

Pocket Sense tracks your income, spending, budgets and bills without an account and without the internet. Everything stays on your phone in an encrypted database. It leaves only as an encrypted backup, or, if you turn on sync, encrypted to your own paired devices on your Wi-Fi. Private by design No sign-in, no servers, no ads, no analytics. The network is used only to sync with your own devices o…

Developer: software-ace
Category: Finance Manager
Earliest archived version: 16 Oct 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

16 Oct 2026

2.2.7

Fixed: with 3-button navigation, the Save button of the transaction form sat behind the navigation bar, so tapping it could press Home instead.

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDace.software.pocketsense

Latest APK SHA-2568ca5e3e6fe9afe1e503e904705b32a9b28abf004bea9e874de01a73bc7f96083

Signing certificate51:1C:E2:0E:87:11:C8:D4:00:1D:9B:E4:5C:8E:C3:B7:C8:19:69:AF:DC:E0:62:42:5B:44:0F:2A:BD:6F:0D:AA

MIN ANDROID24TARGET36ARCHITECTUREx86_64

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

2.2.716 Oct 202624+x86_64→

05 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceOpen-source · fdroid

Permissions6 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessRECORD_AUDIO

Declared permissions

ace.software.pocketsense.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

06 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗