Is BookWyrm safe?

This is an Android client for BookWyrm – a federated social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. It is just BookWyrm put into a webview element, nothing special – but it adds some convenience on top: bookwyrm links can be made to open with the app (e.g. clicking on the link to someone's userprofile will open that from your own…

Developer: Privacy_Dragon
Category: Social Network
Earliest archived version: 14 May 2026
License: BSD-3-Clause (per IzzyOnDroid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from IzzyOnDroid

14 May 2026

1.3.9

Security improvement (Disable WebView file access in HandlerActivity) Adaptive icon improvement Fix returning to log-in screen bug Dependencies have been updated to newest versions. Compiled for up to Android 15 now.

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDnl.privacydragon.bookwyrm

Latest APK SHA-256041c1fe9a5e24766dc0a7244d077f4794175ca4144cb227a77c14cd0be98ceea

Signing certificate05:51:27:4D:D6:23:7A:90:36:52:27:8C:C0:74:4C:CA:35:D7:5A:41:4A:0A:4E:F1:AC:8F:40:5A:F4:D5:60:0C

MIN ANDROID23TARGET35ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.3.914 May 202623+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

Permissions5 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeNet

Sensitive accessCAMERAREAD_MEDIA_IMAGES

Declared permissions

android.permission.CAMERA android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_IMAGES nl.privacydragon.bookwyrm.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↗