Is Privacy Cell safe?

Privacy Cell is a small app that displays the cell phone protocol information. At the time of this writing, many cell phone networks are switching from 4G (4th Generation) to 5G networks. The 5G network protocols were specifically designed to protect against some of the known insecurities of the older protocols, including those that allowed stingrays (IMSI catchers) to perform man-in-the-middle a…

Developer: Soren Stoutner
Category: Phone & SMS
Earliest archived version: 04 Apr 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

04 Apr 2026

1.12.2

Fix the F-Droid builds by using the default Java version.

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.stoutner.privacycell

Latest APK SHA-2569944f5280af964708375854ba13220788eca68981c631755222863997cdf2cc5

Signing certificateD7:28:59:59:D2:60:1F:13:EA:75:B9:DB:23:66:1D:E4:A7:CE:04:18:09:87:E8:9C:7C:CB:23:68:BE:08:55:AE

MIN ANDROID30TARGET36ARCHITECTURE

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.12.204 Apr 202630+→

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

Permissions7 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessREAD_PHONE_NUMBERSREAD_PHONE_STATE

Declared permissions

android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.READ_PHONE_NUMBERS android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED com.stoutner.privacycell.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↗