Is FPInk safe?

FPInk captures handwritten fountain-pen notes and turns them into searchable text, while keeping the original ink colour information alongside each note. Recognition runs entirely on-device with two bundled strategies: Cursive (the default) for handwriting and Printed for printed text. Pick the default in Settings, or choose per photo when using the camera. It currently requires an ARM64 device.…

Developer: MaxDac
Category: Note
Earliest archived version: 16 Oct 2026
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

18 Oct 2026

0.1.0

First stable release, now on F-Droid. When on-device recognition can't run on your device, for example through an ARM translation layer, Add notes now explains why and disables Take photo before you capture, instead of failing afterwards.

Full notes →

16 Oct 2026

0.1.0-preview.13

Text recognition now runs on ONNX Runtime built from source, with Microsoft's telemetry client left out entirely. The app is smaller and still works fully offline. Also includes dependency updates.

Full notes →

03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.fpink.capture

Latest APK SHA-2562905468eb1189d8e1ed792dfaec6100510e242979a910582f232e7a921dc5fe2

Signing certificate20:58:D1:13:77:12:76:17:58:56:AD:9C:6D:3F:24:E4:F9:5F:54:50:09:95:D5:17:1A:61:E7:33:33:AB:61:55

MIN ANDROID26TARGET36ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 0.1.0-preview.13 (16 Oct 2026), latest 0.1.0 (18 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 0.1.0-preview.13 and 0.1.0.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

0.1.018 Oct 202626+arm64-v8a→0.1.0-preview.1316 Oct 202626+arm64-v8a→

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

Permissions2 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessCAMERA

Declared permissions

android.permission.CAMERA com.fpink.capture.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↗