Is Lotus safe?

Features Enjoy your music in MP3, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, WAV, M4A, and more No ads, no telemetry, no analytics — ever Network access is off by default and must be turned on in Settings Smart Shuffle — Pure (mathematically unbiased) and Smart (avoids repeating artists) Per-track embedded artwork — show the cover stored inside each file Synchronized lyrics from LRCLIB with karaoke-style timed display Man…

Developer: Bjorn99
Category: Local Media Player
Earliest archived version: 17 Aug 2026
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

12 Oct 2026

1.9.2-community

Lotus 1.9.2 ReplayGain: tracks can play at a consistent loudness. Turn it on in Settings → Playback and pick Track or Album. Lotus reads the ReplayGain tags in your FLAC, MP3 and M4A files and the R128 tags in Opus files, and uses peak tags so turning a track up doesn't clip. Fixed: since 1.5.9…

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22 Sept 2026

1.9.1-community

Lotus 1.9.1 Swipe the album art left or right to change track, contributed by bxdxnn. Swiping right works like the skip-back button, so more than three seconds into a track it restarts that track. Now fully translated into Turkish, with French underway. Also fixed: - Tracks longer than an hour…

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17 Aug 2026

1.9.0-community

Lotus 1.9.0 Cover art from MusicBrainz downloads again, after being broken since 1.5.0. OPUS files can now carry cover art, and editing tags no longer throws it away. Also: - Now in Spanish and Simplified Chinese - Smart Shuffle rebuilt to spread artists out - Unplayable files say why instead of…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.dn0ne.lotus.community

Latest APK SHA-256970cac67b9d435060967d541a559db2301c97b48ca92710787551ecfc8db4cbe

Signing certificateB3:F4:D2:EB:16:0B:B5:BE:3A:AD:B0:5A:5D:C5:E0:84:29:D9:2F:1F:64:5E:21:A1:9A:EF:22:E0:03:A8:89:EE

MIN ANDROID24TARGET35ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / History

Archive history

3 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.9.0-community (17 Aug 2026), latest 1.9.2-community (12 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.9.1-community and 1.9.2-community.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

3 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.9.2-community12 Oct 202624+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.9.1-community22 Sept 202624+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.9.0-community17 Aug 202624+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, 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 · 3 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEREAD_MEDIA_AUDIOWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.READ_MEDIA_AUDIO android.permission.WAKE_LOCK android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE com.dn0ne.lotus.community.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↗