Is APODroid safe?

APODroid sets NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) as your wallpaper. A new picture comes out every day, and the app picks it up on its own. The app is one page: today's picture with its title and date. Tap the picture to open it on NASA's website, or tap the star to save it to your gallery. Tap the frame button to choose which part of the picture becomes the wallpaper. Tap the title to rea…

Developer: buerlino
Category: Science & Education
Earliest archived version: 05 Oct 2026
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

12 Oct 2026

0.3.1

Long-press the title to copy the link, or the explanation to copy its text - ✓ in the frame sets the chosen part as wallpaper at once; Back leaves without setting - Screen-reader labels for the long presses

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08 Oct 2026

0.3.0

Choose which part of the picture becomes the wallpaper: tap ⛶ on the picture and drag the frame - Fix: on Android 15+ the wallpaper showed the left part of a wide picture; now it's the middle unless you choose - Fix: a camera photo as your own video-day picture could come out stretched

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06 Oct 2026

0.2.1

The hint about Android pausing the app now spells out where each setting is in App info

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDio.github.buerlino.apodroid

Latest APK SHA-2566292d5df6fc2e22ef4c378e87b11cea4d13c55f46b3ff3f752723639577d5288

Signing certificateB7:DD:5A:CE:7B:31:7F:91:CD:34:7D:14:7B:88:20:5D:D9:A5:2D:1C:1E:36:A4:0C:59:96:D6:70:B0:0D:C5:38

MIN ANDROID29TARGET37ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / History

Archive history

4 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 0.1.1 (05 Oct 2026), latest 0.3.1 (12 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 0.3.0 and 0.3.1.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

4 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

0.3.112 Oct 202629+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→0.3.008 Oct 202629+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→0.2.106 Oct 202629+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→0.1.105 Oct 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

SourceBinary repo · fdroid

Permissions5 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeNet

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER io.github.buerlino.apodroid.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↗