Is Caffeinate safe?

Caffeinate is an App that helps android developers to keep their phone's display awake without having to change the device settings. It can be toggled at various places: a tile in the quick settings, the place that holds the toggles for e.g. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Requires Android 7 or higher. a button in the app itself Features Uses android's WakeLock Class with either SCREEN DIM WAKE LOCK or SCRE…

Developer: AbdAlMoniem AlHifnawy
Category: System
Earliest archived version: 09 Dec 2025
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

09 Dec 2025

2.2.0

bump app version to 2.2.0 - New Crowdin updates - New translations strings.xml (Arabic) - New translations strings.xml (Polish) - New translations strings.xml (Russian) - New translations strings.xml (Arabic, Egypt) New Crowdin updates - New translations strings.xml (Arabic) - New translations…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.hifnawy.caffeinate

Latest APK SHA-2563336b43a04cf7e4776449b2ae4eaa4420237f4ad1a479c31718a3dc68ad87a44

Signing certificate95:0A:5B:F9:8A:6C:43:76:9D:80:0A:AC:37:1E:83:B8:A6:32:B5:5D:E9:83:49:C0:1D:C5:41:9E:90:ED:B1:AB

MIN ANDROID24TARGET35ARCHITECTURE

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

2.2.009 Dec 202524+→

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

Permissions8 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessSYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACTION_MANAGE_OVERLAY_PERMISSION android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW android.permission.WAKE_LOCK com.hifnawy.caffeinate.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↗