Is BinClockWidget safe?

An AMOLED-black, monochrome binary-clock Android home-screen widget. It renders the current time and date as a 6×4 grid of dots. Cells that would otherwise go unused carry a couple of small extras: the device alarm state and a weather glyph. The aesthetic is deliberately austere — solid dots on true black, no chrome, no colour — so it disappears into an AMOLED wallpaper and sips battery. How to r…

Developer: shining-cat
Category: Clock
Earliest archived version: 17 Aug 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

17 Aug 2026

1.1.0

New settings: Battery warning thresholds are now configurable. Use the number steppers in Settings to adjust when low-battery and very-low-battery warnings appear, tailoring them to your device and usage patterns (defaults: 20% / 10%)

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDfr.shiningcat.binclockwidget

Latest APK SHA-256585a0c4b0da891d6557114296d31afad9af35315feb1436bb4db25613ad05d9c

Signing certificate33:F2:93:17:56:72:77:D8:B7:A4:2E:D7:87:09:16:A2:DD:2C:1E:DD:A0:8F:E4:02:EE:5F:E5:72:FA:32:2F:CC

MIN ANDROID26TARGET37ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.1.0 (17 Aug 2026), latest 1.1.1 (14 Sept 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.1.114 Sept 202626+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.1.017 Aug 202626+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

Permissions9 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM android.permission.USE_EXACT_ALARM android.permission.WAKE_LOCK fr.shiningcat.binclockwidget.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↗