Is SponsorCut safe?

SponsorCut removes sponsor segments, intros, outros, and other non-content sections from locally stored video and audio files. It uses SponsorBlock community data to identify segments, then re-encodes or stream-copies the file with those sections cleanly cut out. How it works: Enter a YouTube or video ID, or share a file directly from your file manager or browser. SponsorCut fetches the SponsorBl…

Developer: Guy Steiff
Category: Multimedia
Earliest archived version: 10 Jul 2026
License: MIT (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

10 Jul 2026

1.0.3

SponsorCut 1.0.3 Changelog / Release notes: - Architecture hardening: TranscodePolicy refactor - Implemented a single decision graph for copy/transcode decisions. - Introduced CoreDecisions with FINAL canonical booleans canCopyVideo and canCopyAudio computed once by deriveCoreDecisions(). - Removed…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.sponsorcut

Latest APK SHA-25601ea3eea65aae5f20932131e8c4a85ea01a9ee88e2fd404d027c305198cc47ff

Signing certificate71:A5:66:4E:F1:C0:FC:06:30:3B:BC:94:84:00:C6:DA:F1:FC:69:EE:7A:51:9B:AB:DD:88:A8:D8:DC:FA:0C:CD

MIN ANDROID26TARGET34ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · x86_64

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.0.310 Jul 202626+arm64-v8a, 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

Permissions8 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresTetheredNet

Sensitive accessREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.WAKE_LOCK android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE com.sponsorcut.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↗