App Intel

PixelKnot: Hidden Messages

LiveGuardian Project: Apps You Can Trust7 apps · 722.1K installsCommunicationFreeinfo.guardianproject.pixelknot

Have a secret that you want to share? Why not hide it in a picture?

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Total installs
203,118
exact · Play shows 100,000+
Installs / day
0
since last crawl
Rating
3.1★
1.2K ratings · 128 reviews
Released
15 Jul 2013
13.3y ago
Last update
1 Jun 2022
v1.0.2.1 · 4.4y ago
Countries
—
not checked yet

Install history

exact counter from Google Play
198.4K273.8K349.2K424.6K500K11 Oct12 Oct12 Oct
198.4K273.8K349.2K424.6K500K11 Oct12 Oct12 Oct

Installs per day · last 90 days

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Change timeline

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

Country data will be available soon.

We estimate where downloads come from using the app’s position in Google Play’s top charts in about 140 countries. This app is not in any chart we have collected yet; the estimate appears as soon as it is.

Top chart positions

Not in any tracked top chart.

App manifest

Read this app's manifest from Google Play: permissions, declared SDKs, components and AdMob app ID. Saved analysis appears here automatically.

Manifest analysis reads only the required APK ranges. Base APK downloads may need separate device splits to install.

Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • No data shared with third parties
  • No data collected

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

5 in 3 groups
4 Sensitive0 Notable1 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storage
Photos/Media/FilesSensitive2

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
StorageSensitive2

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
OtherRoutine1

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Make your phone vibratecontrol vibration · VIBRATE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
Have a secret that you want to share? Why not hide it in a picture? With PixelKnot, only your friends with the secret password can unlock your special message. Everyone else just sees a pretty picture. It’s a fun and easy way to share hidden messages without anyone knowing. Take those pixels, twist them in a knot, and see for yourself! ★ DISGUISE YOUR MESSAGES: Pictures are public, the text is hidden inside. Even a trained eye will think the image is unedited. It’s security through obscurity! ★ FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: Put a password on the secret message to make sure that no one can read it except the person it’s meant for. ★ EASY IMAGE CHOOSER: You can use the camera to take photos, or just use photos you’ve already taken. ★ INVISIBLE CHANGES: Even a trained analyst analyst shouldn’t be able to detect any message. The image bytes should seem undistorted. ★ SHARE ACROSS PLATFORMS: Want to share the images over email, file sharing tools (like Dropbox & Sparkleshare), social media (like Google+ & Flickr) or directly through Bluetooth or NFC? Not a problem! The messages are still recoverable on the other side. We'll have even more tools (like Facebook) working soon, so stay tuned! ★ AD-FREE: We want your love, not your money. ★ MATHEMATICALLY SECURE: We use the newly developed steganography algorithm F5 which implements matrix encoding to improve the efficiency of embedding and employs permutative straddling to uniformly spread out the changes over the whole steganogram. ★ ATTACK RESISTANT: We’ve launched attacks on images with messages hidden in them using a specialized version of stegdetect, an automated tool for detecting steganographic content in images. In most cases, the pictures have been impervious to attack. We will be including detection in an upcoming version of the application so you can easily test it yourself! Don’t see your language? Join us and help translate the app: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/pixelknot https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/guardianproject/pixelknot-metadata ***Learn More*** ★ ABOUT US: Guardian Project is a group of developers that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow. ★ OUR WEBSITE: https://GuardianProject.info. ★ ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/guardianproject ★ OPEN-SOURCE: PixelKnot is free software. You can take a look at our source code, or join the community to help make it even better: https://github.com/guardianproject/pixelknot ★ MESSAGE US: Are we missing your favorite feature? Found an annoying bug? Please tell us! We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email: [email protected] ***Disclaimer*** The Guardian Project makes apps that are designed to protect your security and anonymity. The protocols that we use are widely regarded as the state of the art in security technology. While we are constantly upgrading our software to combat the latest threats and eliminate bugs, no technology is 100% foolproof. For maximum security and anonymity users must utilize best practices to keep themselves safe. PixelKnot is still an experimental application and should not be used in real world deployments. You can find a good introductory guide to these topics at https://securityinabox.org

What's new

- many translations added - updated to Android 11 / SDK 30 - add support for Signal and Telegram as preferred sending channels - update AES encryption code - improve performance, stability - make app movable to SD card

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