Is Kinetica safe?

Kinetica is a keyboard for two thumbs at once. Each thumb swipes or taps on its own, at the same time as the other, and the two streams merge into one word. Typing "something": the left thumb taps S, then E, while the right thumb swipes O - M and then T - H - I - N - G. Kinetica merges them into S + OM + E + THING. It is a spiritual successor to the discontinued Nintype, written from scratch on A…

Developer: Elia Zanella
Category: Keyboard & IME
Earliest archived version: 05 Sept 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

16 Oct 2026

2.1.0

Swipe shift up, right or down for ABC, Abc or abc Expansion triggers can ignore or carry their case @ and / on the comma in email and web fields Number pad in number fields, optional Blocking a word can also delete it Names you write with a capital keep it One-handed mode for the left hand Bigger…

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08 Oct 2026

2.0.0

Two thumbs read with one cursor each: more words right first time Next-word suggestions; optional recent words on the bar Tap inside a word to swap it for another Chords on?123 or the spacebar, on any key; Ctrl + key shortcuts Optional numbers row and wider middle row Long-press menus as grids…

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06 Oct 2026

1.1.1

Four more languages: Dutch, German, French and Norwegian French gets its own AZERTY board, applied when you pick the language British spelling for English Search your settings, including synonyms Fixed: re-casing a word or picking a correction after punctuation could eat text Remove or rebind the…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.kinetica.keyboard

Latest APK SHA-256b6edb9dae6fa3738bce22dbf8cab5350471848e8575009c9d3f7303327a0a31b

Signing certificateE4:92:9A:5E:7B:DA:83:84:76:40:49:19:89:BC:08:4B:4C:C7:C7:A0:65:3A:47:DF:C2:53:4C:A1:5C:2E:BE:C3

MIN ANDROID26TARGET34ARCHITECTURE

04 / History

Archive history

5 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.0.5 (05 Sept 2026), latest 2.1.0 (16 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

5 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

2.1.016 Oct 202626+→2.0.008 Oct 202626+→1.1.106 Oct 202626+→1.1.011 Sept 202626+→1.0.505 Sept 202626+→

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 · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

android.permission.VIBRATE com.kinetica.keyboard.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↗