Is Polished Recognition safe?

Polished Recognition is a voice keyboard powered by your own AI. Switch to it, speak, and polished text lands in whatever app you are typing in — transcribed by the speech provider you choose, refined by the language model you choose, with a prompt you write. Switch to the Polished keyboard and recording starts instantly. Pause and resume mid-sentence, switch to your typing keyboard and back with…

Developer: Georg Graf
Category: Speech Recognizer
Earliest archived version: 09 Sept 2026
License: MIT (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.georgernstgraf.polishedrecognition

Latest APK SHA-256ce3c4836e3928983c15d56313e314fc5eab34184ebd1cf42e677e5982a5f93b3

Signing certificate62:F9:D7:B0:A4:C3:09:E5:CE:B5:D7:C3:71:F9:18:34:19:AB:86:CD:A1:73:33:0E:1E:7F:08:B6:1B:A7:6A:85

MIN ANDROID30TARGET36ARCHITECTURE

03 / History

Archive history

9 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.2.1 (09 Sept 2026), latest 1.5.0 (16 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.4.0 and 1.5.0.

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

9 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.5.016 Oct 202630+→1.4.015 Oct 202630+→1.3.612 Oct 202630+→1.3.326 Sept 202630+→1.3.122 Sept 202630+→1.2.421 Sept 202630+→1.2.316 Sept 202630+→1.2.214 Sept 202630+→1.2.109 Sept 202630+→

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

Permissions7 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessRECORD_AUDIO

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MICROPHONE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO com.georgernstgraf.polishedrecognition.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↗