Is Night Drop safe?

Night Drop is a privacy-first 1:1 messenger. Like a night deposit box: every message is a sealed envelope, dropped for one person only, opened by no one in between. Anonymous identities only — no phone number, no email, no account. Your identity is a keypair held on your device. End-to-end encryption with the Signal Double Ratchet: only the sender and receiver can read a message. Peer-to-peer ove…

Developer: Night Drop
Category: Messaging
Earliest archived version: 16 Aug 2026
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

12 Oct 2026

0.1.29

Backups keep your address again. Since 0.1.16 they lost it, so contacts could not reach a restored device directly: make a new backup after updating. The app now reminds contacts of your address at each start, repairing earlier restores. Short codes shown on a phone work reliably. Code guessing is…

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05 Oct 2026

0.1.27

Uses much less data and battery in the background. A bug in the Tor library made the app re-publish its address more and more often the longer it ran; in our overnight test this cuts its upload traffic by about 70%. Night Drop 0.2 is coming, and it won't be able to message 0.1 apps. The app now…

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02 Oct 2026

0.1.26

Offline messages now use a private mailbox per chat that changes daily, so a relay can no longer link messages from different contacts or days to the same person. A chat with someone on an older version says so: offline messages with them stop working two releases from now, so ask them to update.…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDapp.nightdrop

Latest APK SHA-2566d9ca2cafb3c2e309f10cd23b848258b2d89e0db2d9d4c9c5230c937847133d5

Signing certificateD0:8B:8E:64:08:AF:F4:F4:35:56:C0:5B:81:9F:EF:25:AF:DD:69:12:BE:7A:67:8B:05:52:46:8A:45:82:C0:AC

MIN ANDROID24TARGET36ARCHITECTUREx86_64

04 / History

Archive history

6 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 0.1.21 (16 Aug 2026), latest 0.1.29 (12 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 0.1.27 and 0.1.29.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

6 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

0.1.2912 Oct 202624+x86_64→0.1.2705 Oct 202624+x86_64→0.1.2602 Oct 202624+x86_64→0.1.2529 Sept 202624+x86_64→0.1.2222 Sept 202624+x86_64→0.1.2116 Aug 202624+x86_64→

06 / 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

Permissions10 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessCAMERA

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.CAMERA android.permission.DETECT_SCREEN_CAPTURE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.VIBRATE android.permission.WAKE_LOCK app.nightdrop.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

07 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗