Is CimBar Scanner safe?

CimBar Scanner sends and receives files and text as CimBar barcodes — animated images in which every frame is a grid of colored tile shapes. Point one phone's camera at another phone's screen, or at a computer running the web app, and the file arrives with no network at all. Encoding and decoding happen entirely on your device: no account, no server, no internet connection. How it works 1. Encode…

Developer: mezinster
Category: File Encryption & Vault
Earliest archived version: 12 Oct 2026
License: MIT (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

12 Oct 2026

0.13.0

New Send tab: type a message or pick a file, then show it full screen for another phone to scan, or share it as an animated GIF • Received text messages open in the app, ready to copy, share or save as.txt • Shorter tab labels, so the five-tab bar no longer wraps

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.nfcarchiver.cimbar

Latest APK SHA-2569d463c1e247ff03727e5f1ff34ee8fa7bd72f1262b94181e0eb16900b3b79d48

Signing certificateF0:5B:1D:CC:41:30:1C:94:CC:A2:60:C2:44:97:80:0B:9F:EC:38:63:39:B5:5A:F3:7B:A9:E1:B3:BE:3C:B0:A8

MIN ANDROID24TARGET36ARCHITECTUREx86_64

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

0.13.012 Oct 202624+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

SourceOpen-source · fdroid

Permissions2 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessCAMERA

Declared permissions

android.permission.CAMERA com.nfcarchiver.cimbar.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↗