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Developer: joinmastodon
Category: Connectivity
Earliest archived version: 05 Sept 2026
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

14 Oct 2026

2.13.4

Added support for displaying Collections if your server supports it - Reworked push notifications under the hood. It should not change anything for you, but it's now more modern

Full notes →

03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDorg.joinmastodon.android

Latest APK SHA-256ce1a8222a1f9a59cdde0816a64a39692123c3bc05f64966abae5b0ea2dfe709e

Signing certificate83:CB:2C:D2:BD:D5:10:31:04:4C:D2:76:85:23:24:B2:E9:6F:BE:3D:87:29:8D:F7:B6:79:4C:9D:EA:34:55:04

MIN ANDROID23TARGET37ARCHITECTURE

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 2.13.3 (05 Sept 2026), latest 2.13.4 (14 Oct 2026).

Permissions changed between 2.13.3 and 2.13.4: added android.permission.ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

2.13.414 Oct 202623+→2.13.305 Sept 202623+→

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

Permissions10 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeNet

Sensitive accessREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.VIBRATE android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE org.joinmastodon.android.permission.C2D_MESSAGE

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↗