Is Cowspent safe?

Cowspent is a shared budget manager able to synchronize with Nextcloud Cospend. It is partially based on MoneyBuster What did we change from MoneyBuster ? We added more statistics, support for projects marked as archived (hidden by default), added support for custom splits to bills, added a way to add categories to bills missing them. Behind the scenes we migrated the UI and app into Kotlin and J…

Developer: helcel.net
Category: Money
Earliest archived version: 11 Sept 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per IzzyOnDroid metadata)

02 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDnet.helcel.cowspent

Latest APK SHA-256c62a8af63d5fb8df43fbd4588f95a3195fb23f53a2babb6a3b45ad501cfe4652

Signing certificateD3:EE:68:A8:5A:7F:35:A1:14:D2:74:B4:50:AA:CE:8C:ED:68:EA:C8:1A:A2:22:E2:7F:F5:0E:98:4C:C6:29:72

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

03 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.6 (11 Sept 2026), latest 1.7 (01 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.6 and 1.7.

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.701 Oct 202626+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.611 Sept 202626+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→

05 / 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 · izzyondroid

Permissions8 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessCAMERAGET_ACCOUNTS

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.CAMERA android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.WAKE_LOCK net.helcel.cowspent.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↗