Is Cobalt safe?

Cobalt is an offline-first personal archive and capture app for Android. It stores links, notes, images, audio clips, code snippets, and movie/anime watchlists in a local Room database without requiring an account. Capture Methods: - Android Share Target: Save text, URLs, images, and videos directly from other apps via the system share sheet. - Floating Overlay: Access a screen-edge panel to writ…

Developer: Hanan Bhatti
Category: Bookmark
Earliest archived version: 15 Oct 2026
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

15 Oct 2026

2.1.2

Added opt-in toggle for GitHub update checks (default off in FOSS). - Fixed radial FAB menu to support direct tap selection. - Decoupled Home screen feed from Search tab query. - Completely removed sync/download background services from FOSS. - Added custom User-Agent and guidance for anime search.…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.hanan_bhatti.cobalt

Latest APK SHA-256bae3daf17685125986e18887649a6b31f53f40d4409a369fb19b538d4ade7ae2

Signing certificate9A:F1:92:BC:18:65:C3:15:59:15:39:BD:40:22:E6:9E:6A:35:E5:97:38:4B:84:6D:3B:3F:27:2E:74:C6:E2:CB

MIN ANDROID24TARGET37ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

2.1.215 Oct 202624+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

SourceBinary repo · fdroid

Permissions16 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeNet

Sensitive accessRECORD_AUDIOSYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW

Declared permissions

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↗