Is ReteKey safe?

A Hangul keyboard for developers and power users — for anyone who needs Esc, Tab, Ctrl chords, function and arrow keys on a phone, and a keyboard that behaves itself in a terminal. It is small and asks for almost nothing. The APK is about 470 KB, most of that the Hanja tables, written in plain Java with no third-party runtime dependencies; the Hanja tables are memory-mapped straight out of the AP…

Developer: ReteKey contributors
Category: Keyboard & IME
Earliest archived version: 31 Aug 2026
License: MIT (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

31 Aug 2026

0.1.150

Persian: the key caps now preview « and » the way they will actually look in Persian text. These are bidi-mirrored characters - the glyph the reader sees depends on the text direction - so caps on right-to-left layouts are now shaped in a right-to-left context, and left-to-right layouts keep…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.retekey

Latest APK SHA-256bc57304266886af0268ba1a3bafb899ad3916df126496f7aca15709bb6948e42

Signing certificate9E:DF:10:F8:08:8E:6E:EE:CE:98:31:68:7F:DE:92:DC:B7:37:C7:74:F1:D3:9E:C3:7C:59:69:05:AE:02:0C:35

MIN ANDROID28TARGET36ARCHITECTURE

04 / History

Archive history

16 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 0.1.150 (31 Aug 2026), latest 0.2.3 (14 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 0.2.1 and 0.2.3.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

16 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

0.2.314 Oct 202628+→0.2.105 Oct 202628+→0.2.026 Sept 202628+→0.1.19925 Sept 202628+→0.1.19623 Sept 202628+→0.1.19422 Sept 202628+→0.1.19221 Sept 202628+→0.1.18919 Sept 202628+→0.1.18518 Sept 202628+→0.1.17917 Sept 202628+→0.1.17416 Sept 202628+→0.1.17015 Sept 202628+→0.1.16614 Sept 202628+→0.1.16312 Sept 202628+→0.1.15711 Sept 202628+→0.1.15031 Aug 202628+→

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

Permissions1 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

android.permission.VIBRATE

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↗