Is Sentinel Lens safe?

Sentinel Lens is a facial recognition surveillance app that uses your Android device's camera to record video in the background (with no live preview) and sends Telegram alerts when unauthorized individuals are detected, based on a configurable blacklist and whitelist . Key Features Background Recording Discreet Capture: Record video silently in the background without any visible camera preview.…

Developer: fpf
Category: Camera
Earliest archived version: 07 Oct 2025
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.fpf.sentinellens

Latest APK SHA-256b23553b8cb1a7f0631c164f29c72f3046602d5fcadb92dead9459d58809a4366

Signing certificate56:D6:CB:A6:15:6A:A0:1E:26:85:2C:E4:E3:C6:C6:FC:43:9D:AE:35:C5:8C:C2:0B:40:F2:1A:37:9E:10:E9:28

MIN ANDROID30TARGET34ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

03 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.0.2 (07 Oct 2025), latest 1.0.3 (16 Oct 2026).

Permissions changed between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3: added android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO.

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.0.316 Oct 202630+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.0.207 Oct 202530+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

Permissions10 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessCAMERARECORD_AUDIO

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.CAMERA android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CAMERA android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO android.permission.WAKE_LOCK com.fpf.sentinellens.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↗