Is Otoscope safe?

Otoscope is a clean, ad-free replacement for the proprietary apps shipped with cheap Wi-Fi otoscope cameras. The stock companion apps generally bundle lots of ad and analytics SDKs (AdMob, AppLovin, IronSource, MBridge, Vungle, Pangle, Mintegral, etc.) and in-app tracking. Otoscope reimplements essential connection and viewer functionalities, with nothing else. Features: • Discover the camera ove…

Developer: rubec
Category: Camera
Earliest archived version: 02 Sept 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

12 Oct 2026

0.10.0

Adds support for Y38 otoscopes, which broadcast an open Wi-Fi named AIR-ES-XXXXXX.

Full notes →

08 Oct 2026

0.9.0

Adds a fullscreen view and an auto-rotate toggle. When auto-rotate is off, a rotate button next to the fullscreen one turns the image 90° at a time. Ring-light, mirror and auto-rotate now fold away under an "Options" row to keep the camera image as large as possible.

Full notes →

02 Sept 2026

0.7.0

Adds photo and video capture. Stills are saved to Pictures/Otoscope and clips to Movies/Otoscope, as you see them on screen but without the mirror. An optional caption such as "Left ear" can be burnt into the corner of each capture, and a built-in gallery lets you review, play back, share and…

Full notes →

03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDdev.rubec.otoscope

Latest APK SHA-256d19984af0ec19164f3cc07ca47f3e46a8d8470a865042f82c2dd7da1e91c361e

Signing certificate69:4D:49:76:7B:3E:3F:1A:40:24:07:2F:9B:13:FE:FC:44:FC:04:36:28:03:C5:5F:E0:3E:30:BA:27:07:AF:A9

MIN ANDROID29TARGET35ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / History

Archive history

3 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 0.7.0 (02 Sept 2026), latest 0.10.0 (12 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 0.9.0 and 0.10.0.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

3 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

0.10.012 Oct 202629+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→0.9.008 Oct 202629+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→0.7.002 Sept 202629+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, 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 accessACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATION

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE android.permission.BLUETOOTH android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES dev.rubec.otoscope.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↗