Is Phosphor Cam safe?

Phosphor Cam turns your live camera feed into ASCII art, dithering, halftone, lines and voxel visuals, in real time and entirely on your device. Point your camera at anything, pick a style, and watch the world get redrawn as text, dots, ribbons or pixel blocks. Switch styles on the fly without restarting the camera, and fine-tune the look until it feels right. Five visual styles - ASCII: characte…

Developer: Anish Roy
Category: Camera
Earliest archived version: 08 Oct 2026
License: MIT (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

08 Oct 2026

1.1.2

Version: v1.1.2 - Front camera preview is now mirrored, like a normal selfie camera - Photos and videos now save to the same folder - Fixed saving on Android - New in-app notifications confirm when a photo or video is saved - Faster startup: the font is now bundled with the app instead of…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDsite.aroy.phosphor

Latest APK SHA-256542baee28f7848cddb64086c3387695d13a2fc898066163865eb95cd1d4e8386

Signing certificateB7:D5:53:F8:12:62:95:C0:09:5C:0E:04:CD:30:AD:70:B8:0E:70:94:1A:32:4B:57:39:03:54:5B:4F:DF:DA:69

MIN ANDROID30TARGET37ARCHITECTURE

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.1.208 Oct 202630+→

05 / 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

Permissions2 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessCAMERA

Declared permissions

android.permission.CAMERA site.aroy.phosphor.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↗