Is PCAPdroid safe?

PCAPdroid is a privacy-friendly open source app which can track, analyze and block the connections made by the other apps on the device. It can also export a PCAP dump of the traffic, inspect HTTP requests, decrypt TLS traffic and much more. PCAPdroid simulates a VPN in order to capture the network traffic without root. It does not use a remote VPN server, instead data is processed locally on the…

Developer: Emanuele Faranda
Category: Internet
Earliest archived version: 23 Aug 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.emanuelef.remote_capture

Latest APK SHA-256e03f79082278b3754b4954c7537e7c9f7681e5995a44e70aa1589eca10190066

Signing certificate9F:DD:93:B6:2B:CC:95:E8:6F:F6:81:A4:01:F8:16:53:E3:76:26:E8:33:69:A3:E1:92:E0:60:F2:A3:CA:14:7D

MIN ANDROID23TARGET37ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

03 / History

Archive history

3 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 2.0.0 (23 Aug 2026), latest 2.0.2 (22 Sept 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2.

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

3 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

2.0.222 Sept 202623+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→2.0.112 Sept 202623+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→2.0.023 Aug 202623+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

Permissions13 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.WRITE_CLIPS android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE com.emanuelef.remote_capture.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↗