Is Whisper safe?

Whisper is an input method editor (IME) with voice recognition based on Whisper It can work as standalone app and also offers an IME which can e.g. be activated via the microphone button in HeliBoard . At first start it needs to download the Whisper models from Hugging Face. This is the only use of the internet permission. Voice recognition works completely offline. As standalone app Whisper can…

Developer: woheller69
Category: Keyboard & IME
Earliest archived version: 05 Aug 2026
License: MIT (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

05 Aug 2026

3.7

Layout: Switch position of auto and keyboard buttons Fix for Samsung One UI app drawer search box microphone Try Whisper+ (also on F-Droid)

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDorg.woheller69.whisper

Latest APK SHA-256f97d8087dc7a81a1175a08f8858d808815b3554f031ffaa982a6fd04ac861e7c

Signing certificate61:90:B7:B0:96:08:8D:22:AB:19:41:81:62:2F:64:24:A2:B7:11:C9:F5:F1:F8:D3:45:C0:9F:29:BB:16:01:71

MIN ANDROID28TARGET35ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 3.7 (05 Aug 2026), latest 3.8 (14 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 3.7 and 3.8.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

3.814 Oct 202628+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a→3.705 Aug 202628+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a→

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

Permissions12 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeNet

Sensitive accessQUERY_ALL_PACKAGESRECORD_AUDIO

Declared permissions

android.permission.BLUETOOTH android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MICROPHONE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO android.permission.VIBRATE org.woheller69.whisper.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↗