Is Glyfen safe?

Glyfen is an offline-first OCR app for Android that lets you search your photo library by text content. All processing happens entirely on your device — no cloud uploads, no internet required. Point Glyfen at your photo folders and it scans every image for text using PaddleOCR. Receipts, documents, screenshots, business cards, labels — if an image contains printed text, Glyfen extracts it and mak…

Developer: talixodev
Category: OCR
First release: 14 Jul 2026
License: Not documented

02 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDdev.glyfen.app

Latest APK SHA-256cf368ed5a1a4ba7cc726a653a266672639400a919ba577fa040412698533e46d

Signing certificateF4:A5:B2:77:F1:F1:32:65:C8:D7:A6:7B:8E:B3:44:52:2F:9E:81:8A:CD:16:62:BF:27:6A:E7:18:60:89:1B:66

MIN ANDROID26TARGET35ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a

03 / History

Project timeline

14 Jul 2026

Package observed in source index

Metadata and versions observed from the fdroid repository index.

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.014 Jul 202626+arm64-v8a→

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

Permissions6 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS android.permission.WAKE_LOCK dev.glyfen.app.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↗