Is VocaPhone safe?

Speak into your phone and the text shows up where you are already typing. VocaPhone is a system keyboard: switch to it in any app, dictate, and the transcript is inserted at your cursor through Android's normal input method interface. Transcription never touches a cloud speech service. It runs either on your own device or on a machine you already own and administer via a self-hosted gateway. Ther…

Developer: VocaHQ
Category: Keyboard & IME
Earliest archived version: 04 Oct 2026
License: AGPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

12 Oct 2026

0.2.4

Dictation no longer swallows a half-typed word, and names like "Sarah" or "Paris" keep their capitals in every style. On-device models finish faster: Sherpa decodes at pauses while you speak, Fast and Accurate stream again, and Whisper skips slow efficiency cores. Cancelling an on-device…

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04 Oct 2026

0.2.1

Private usage stats for words, speed, and streaks, shared with the system share sheet. The IME picker labels VocaPhone keyboard and VocaPhone voice input separately so other keyboards can still hand off the mic. Hold the keyboard mic to cancel. Setup copy is plainer. Sherpa 1.13.8 so Canary keeps…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.vocahq.vocaphone

Latest APK SHA-256b8f0c173395d4db1ce0ee8a08bee76c62d936ddbca4365c83e6ccdb0baa318e1

Signing certificateE6:13:14:46:F8:AF:EF:F1:35:16:F7:80:36:DB:9E:A2:6A:AA:16:E0:1B:39:F3:71:82:BF:26:2C:CD:1D:45:B0

MIN ANDROID33TARGET36ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86_64

04 / History

Archive history

3 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 0.2.1 (04 Oct 2026), latest 0.2.4 (12 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 0.2.2 and 0.2.4.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

3 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

0.2.412 Oct 202633+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64→0.2.206 Oct 202633+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64→0.2.104 Oct 202633+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64→

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

Permissions13 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessCAMERARECORD_AUDIO

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.CAMERA android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MICROPHONE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO android.permission.VIBRATE android.permission.WAKE_LOCK com.vocahq.vocaphone.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↗