Is openCook safe?

openCook is an open-source, offline-first recipe app. Collect, plan and cook your recipes — without an account, ads or tracking. Recipe management, meal planning and the shopping list work fully offline on your device. An optional self-hosted server (which you run yourself, on your own hardware) adds AI photo scanning and family sync over your home network — there is no cloud and no registration.…

Developer: olie.xdev
Category: Recipe Manager
Earliest archived version: 11 Aug 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

17 Sept 2026

0.3

Discover: browse recipe sites inside the app and import with one tap. openCook now speaks French, next to English and German. The meal planner is one rolling 15-day list — swap a dish and see why it was suggested. New retrospective: everything you cooked, month by month. Sync pauses off your home…

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11 Aug 2026

0.2

Phone-to-phone Wi-Fi sync: run a household with no server at all. Meal slots — plan breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner separately. New "Cookable now" filter and a search/filter sheet for recipes. Backup and restore as a ZIP; export single recipes as Markdown or JSON. Smarter pantry matching; drag…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.food.opencook

Latest APK SHA-2566ca471b7c1d75b4304de5684ef5fac8626cc05dd5f703ce0d1dec03340c2c637

Signing certificateA5:67:B7:BB:65:BD:9C:28:4F:28:43:D2:0D:7C:D0:09:F8:C7:BB:E0:0A:32:50:37:61:24:59:A9:CA:EB:30:26

MIN ANDROID30TARGET36ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 0.2 (11 Aug 2026), latest 0.3 (17 Sept 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 0.2 and 0.3.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

0.317 Sept 202630+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→0.211 Aug 202630+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 · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessCAMERA

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.CAMERA android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.WAKE_LOCK com.food.opencook.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↗