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Open Camera

by Mark Harman · GPL-3.0-or-later · open source

A full-featured open-source camera: manual focus and exposure, RAW photos, HDR and exposure bracketing, a night mode, and date, location or text stamps on your photos.

Needs:No root · Android 6.0+

No known trackers in the code Signer matches F-Droid’s record

2113 Apps is independent, not affiliated with or endorsed by Mark Harman. Official sources: opencamera.org.uk · source code on SourceForge.

Download APK · 5.0 MB v1.56.2 · checked
Version
1.56.2
Size
5.0 MB
Requires
Android 6.0+
Updated
2026-06-30

Introduction

Open Camera is an open-source camera app by Mark Harman that exposes the manual controls of Android’s camera system. It doesn’t even ask for internet access: the eight permissions it declares don’t include it, so nothing you shoot can be sent anywhere by the app.

What it does

From the project’s website:

  • Manual controls through Android’s Camera2 API, with optional focus assist, plus burst mode, RAW (DNG) files, camera vendor extensions, slow-motion video and log-profile video.
  • HDR, with automatic alignment and ghost removal, and exposure bracketing.
  • Noise reduction, including a low-light night mode, and dynamic range optimisation.
  • Focus bracketing.
  • Stamps: date and time, location and your own text on photos, with date, time and location saved as subtitles in videos.
  • Optional geotagging of photos and videos.

Depends on your phone

Many of these features rely on the phone’s camera hardware. The Camera2 features need a phone that reports LIMITED or FULL support for the Camera2 API; LEGACY-only phones don’t get them, and the help page notes that some phones support Camera2 poorly. Noise reduction and focus bracketing are only available on some devices. Bluetooth remote control needs Android 12.

About this file

  • This is F-Droid’s build of version 1.56.2, from May 2026, signed with F-Droid’s key. The author says the app itself has no ads.
  • Google Play has Open Camera from the same author, signed differently, so the two don’t update each other.
  • The 5.0 MB file has no native code, needs Android 6.0 or later, and asks for the camera, microphone, location and Bluetooth permissions, the last two for geotagging and remote control.

Written by 2113, last reviewed . Sources: source code, release notes, F-Droid listing.

What’s inside the APK

Trackers

None found

No code matching the Exodus Privacy tracker signatures.

Native code

None

Pure Java/Kotlin, so it runs on any CPU.

Android versions

Android 6.0 and up

Built for Android 16 (target API 36).

Permissions

8

7 of them need your approval first.

Asks you first (7)

Android shows a prompt before the app can use these.

  • Approximate location · ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
  • Precise location · ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
  • Connect to paired Bluetooth devices · BLUETOOTH_CONNECT
  • Scan for Bluetooth devices · BLUETOOTH_SCAN
  • Use the camera · CAMERA
  • Record audio with the microphone · RECORD_AUDIO
  • Write shared storage (Android 10 and older) · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Defined by other apps (1)

Permissions that belong to another app or to this app itself.

  • net.sourceforge.opencamera.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

More Information

Package name
net.sourceforge.opencamera
Version
1.56.2 (build 96)
File size
5.0 MB (4,973,923 bytes)
Requires
Android 6.0 or later
Category
Media
License
GPL-3.0-or-later
Developer
Mark Harman
Released
Jun 30, 2026
Signed by
F-Droid, which built this APK from the published source code. Because the key is F-Droid’s, it won’t install over a copy from Google Play or GitHub (or the other way round) without uninstalling first.
Signer SHA-256
438991c968e8d308ca34078d37511c90c502d596baf9f0d0c5fbd1c9bf67df6d
File SHA-256
ca5672ca8c7174554ca0b07b5b26e505817a05142f571cf2abe67e790c30249c
Checked
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Common questions

Is this APK the official Open Camera release?

It is F-Droid’s build rather than the developer’s own: F-Droid compiled Open Camera 1.56.2 from the published source code and signed it with its own key. Its SHA-256 matches F-Droid’s signed index. Because the key is F-Droid’s, it won’t install over a copy from Google Play or GitHub without uninstalling first.

What Android version does Open Camera need?

Android 6.0 or later (API level 23). Version 1.56.2 is built for Android 16 (target API 36). Pure Java/Kotlin, so it runs on any CPU.

Can Open Camera access the internet?

No. The APK doesn’t request Android’s internet permission, so the app can’t go online by itself. In total it declares 8 permissions, and 7 of them need your approval first.

Does Open Camera contain trackers?

No known trackers: our scan of version 1.56.2 found no code matching the Exodus Privacy tracker signatures. The scan covers known tracker libraries; it doesn’t show what data the app itself sends.

Is Open Camera open source?

Yes. Open Camera is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence, and its source code is published at https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code.

Recent releases

Version Released Size Requires
v1.56.2 · this download Jun 30, 2026 5.0 MB Android 6.0+
v1.55 Sep 1, 2025 5.0 MB Android 5.0+
v1.54.1 Apr 22, 2025 5.0 MB Android 5.0+

Versions currently kept in the F-Droid repository. We host and check only the newest one. Full changelog.