Is Keep Screen On safe?

Keep Screen On allows you to add a quick settings tile, with which you can easily disable screen timeout and then restore the previous timeout value. For example, this may be useful to you if you need the display to stay on temporarily when viewing a website or document or if your device does not have the option to set the screen timeout to never in the settings. Features: - Disable screen timeou…

Developer: David Weis
Category: System
Earliest archived version: 01 Jan 2026
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

01 Jan 2026

1.28.0

New home screen widget - Major behind the scenes code restructuring - Better QS tile performance - Two additional timeout options to choose from

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.elasticrock.keepscreenon

Latest APK SHA-256eb028b37b57db2e013b6db263321fed2b6c5744bae2657cf2db549f3a697b9fc

Signing certificateBB:95:03:BE:14:86:02:81:33:B3:3E:AB:CE:97:32:10:0E:9A:33:10:65:E3:2F:A2:A0:33:A9:34:98:BA:E6:D6

MIN ANDROID24TARGET36ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.28.001 Jan 202624+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, 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

Permissions8 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.WAKE_LOCK android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS com.elasticrock.keepscreenon.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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↗