Is GrooveForge safe?

GrooveForge is a portable MIDI keyboard studio for Android. Plug in a MIDI controller, pick a soundfont, and play. It began as a practice companion, light enough to carry on a phone or tablet, for rebuilding scales and muscle memory at a keyboard. It grew well beyond that, but it remains a tool for practising and playing, not a DAW. Rehearsals A band learning a tune together, without a studio. Ev…

Developer: Yann Poirier
Category: Music Practice Tool
Earliest archived version: 16 Oct 2026
License: MIT (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

16 Oct 2026

3.3.0

Added - Wah: a Manual mode, where a new Pedal control sweeps the filter instead of the LFO. Assign it to an expression pedal or a CC knob. - Rehearsals: remove the phone speaker's bleed from a take recorded with the click on the loudspeaker, from the lane's menu. The original is kept. Changed…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.grooveforge.grooveforge

Latest APK SHA-256d55f219de62bf6b2050eb7d674e78d9b73a3ecce1e684767e0e8b5d8e24fe120

Signing certificate90:3F:70:DD:BE:47:B8:D1:2C:50:8E:67:EB:40:EB:7A:5C:3C:0F:48:D5:02:89:DD:C9:37:BC:A7:2F:34:1D:5A

MIN ANDROID26TARGET36ARCHITECTUREx86_64

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

3.3.016 Oct 202626+x86_64→

05 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexReview the flags below before installing

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceOpen-source · fdroid

Permissions15 declared · 6 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONCAMERAREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGERECORD_AUDIOWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.BLUETOOTH android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN android.permission.CAMERA android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE com.grooveforge.grooveforge.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↗