Is Minesweeper safe?

Every other Minesweeper on Android is either a privacy nightmare stuffed with ads and trackers, or a bare-bones port that looks like it was built in 2009. This one is neither. No ads. No permissions. No analytics. No internet. Just the game. Built with Jetpack Compose and Material 3, it looks and feels like a first-party Google app. Material You dynamic colour adapts the entire palette to your wa…

Developer: github
Category: Puzzle Game
Earliest archived version: 29 Jul 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

29 Jul 2026

1.3

Fixed: tiles stayed tappable during the loss animation, so you could keep clearing the board and even win a game you had already lost. - The "Game Over" banner and shake now fire the instant you hit a mine. - Updated build tooling and dependencies.

Full notes →

03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDio.github.johnathan.minesweeper

Latest APK SHA-256753646b79529ef054765455eb043af5521371166612483e1c6cc15fd8a3d5f2d

Signing certificate65:1E:44:D8:F6:0E:EF:7B:E5:CB:65:0B:F3:F0:A0:73:EA:59:D2:6E:6F:C9:29:11:26:FE:36:96:84:E9:C5:1F

MIN ANDROID21TARGET35ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / History

Archive history

6 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.3 (29 Jul 2026), latest 1.9 (15 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.8 and 1.9.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

6 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.915 Oct 202621+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.829 Sept 202621+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.622 Sept 202621+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.512 Sept 202621+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.411 Sept 202621+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.329 Jul 202621+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

Permissions1 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

io.github.johnathan.minesweeper.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↗