Is Balance safe?

Balance reads bank SMS on your phone and shows the latest balance for supported banks — split per account when stated — plus the combined total. No account, cloud, analytics or internet permission: parsing is on-device and stored data is encrypted. Balance does not upload or send it; Report, sharing, CSV export and backup only hand selected data to the app or location you choose. Currently built…

Developer: Ashkan Rafiee
Category: Finance Manager
Earliest archived version: 09 Sept 2026
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

18 Oct 2026

1.19.0

Payment merchants from supported bank authorization messages now appear in history only when they uniquely match a completed withdrawal. • History exports and password-encrypted backups now include matched payment merchants. • History can now be narrowed by one or more banks and accounts, with the…

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15 Oct 2026

1.18.4

History now shows total deposits and withdrawals separately at the top and on mixed days, instead of only the net movement. • Commitments can now end after a set number of payments. • Stale balances now show a muted amount with a short "N days" badge. • Persian bank names are shorter, and…

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14 Oct 2026

1.18.1

Fixed slow balance refreshes and history loading on devices with large SMS histories. • Fixed crashes on older Android versions and prevented temporary storage failures from replacing saved history with an empty screen. • History now opens with recent days first; older days remain available on…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.ashkanrafiee.balance

Latest APK SHA-2564d2e435c4a6a72a5fb43f011e82f81b94bc71524373dd665436c72841dd8b95f

Signing certificate52:9D:BD:C1:A4:E0:EC:23:51:BF:98:91:07:A7:C3:F9:FB:04:97:C3:B5:53:80:58:2D:9F:F0:DA:52:05:71:54

MIN ANDROID26TARGET35ARCHITECTURE

04 / History

Archive history

14 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.5.0 (09 Sept 2026), latest 1.19.0 (18 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.18.4 and 1.19.0.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

14 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.19.018 Oct 202626+→1.18.415 Oct 202626+→1.18.114 Oct 202626+→1.17.005 Oct 202626+→1.16.026 Sept 202626+→1.15.025 Sept 202626+→1.14.022 Sept 202626+→1.12.118 Sept 202626+→1.11.017 Sept 202626+→1.10.015 Sept 202626+→1.8.014 Sept 202626+→1.7.012 Sept 202626+→1.6.211 Sept 202626+→1.5.009 Sept 202626+→

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

Permissions6 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessREAD_SMS

Declared permissions

android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.READ_SMS android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT

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↗