Is Horus safe?

Your phone is an ARM64 Linux computer that spends most of its day running chat apps. Horus gives it a real job: it unpacks Alpine Linux inside the app and opens a terminal where Claude Code , Codex , and OpenCode can read your code, edit files, run the tests, and tell you what broke. You don't need root, Termux, or a computer. Ask an agent to fix a failing test while you're on the bus, then put t…

Developer: Scarif Labs
Category: Development
Earliest archived version: 06 Oct 2026
License: MIT (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

12 Oct 2026

1.0.4

Swipe typing and keyboard suggestions in the terminal - CTRL and ALT apply to one key, so ^S can no longer freeze the shell - Multi-threaded programs such as ffmpeg no longer end the session - Faster output, and the view keeps up with the newest lines - Agent installs show download progress as a…

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06 Oct 2026

1.0.3

Description fix: Codex is free software (Apache-2.0); only Claude Code is proprietary

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.scariflabs.horus

Latest APK SHA-256bf67340c4dd8321636c158902d0bf7b5a4684a23eae982d0026d45e348cb3430

Signing certificate31:1E:3D:58:A6:F9:2B:27:04:AF:F6:FA:BB:5A:D2:F1:CE:DD:FE:8B:4B:DA:2E:D4:DA:FE:B7:28:19:B7:11:2C

MIN ANDROID24TARGET36ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.0.3 (06 Oct 2026), latest 1.0.4 (12 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.0.412 Oct 202624+arm64-v8a→1.0.306 Oct 202624+arm64-v8a→

06 / 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

Permissions11 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeAddNonFreeNet

Sensitive accessREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS android.permission.VIBRATE android.permission.WAKE_LOCK android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE com.scariflabs.horus.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↗