ProofMode: Verified Visuals

Turn your photos and videos into secure, signed visual evidence

ProofMode: Verified Visuals - Secure Your Media

ProofMode: Verified Visuals is a lightweight, open-source Android app designed to automatically attach proof data to your photos and videos, ensuring their integrity and security. Running seamlessly in the background, it requires no setup and employs strong cryptographic methods for verification without encryption. The app preserves original media files, storing all proof metadata separately, and supports easy sharing and integration with existing tools.
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App stats

Users: 11,246
15
Rating: 3.82
(66)
Version: 2.5.0-BETA-2 (Last updated: 2024-12-18)
Creation date: 2017-02-23
Permissions
Identity: find accounts on the device
Contacts: find accounts on the device
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Phone: read phone status and identity
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Camera: take pictures and videos
Microphone: record audio
Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
Other:
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • run at startup
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

BETA WARNING: This is an early release and has not been fully audited technically or tested in court or other legal proceedings.

ProofMode is light, minimal "reboot" of our full encrypted, verified secure camera app, CameraV (https://guardianproject.info/apps/camerav). Our hope was to create a lightweight, almost invisible utility, that you can run all of the time on your phone, that automatically extra digital proof data to all photos and videos you take. This data can then be easily shared through a "Share Proof" share action, to anyone you choose.


ProofMode is an open-source project: https://github.com/guardianproject/proofmode

Goals

* Run all of the time in the background without noticeable battery, storage or network impact
* Provide a no-setup-required, automatic new user experience that works without requiring training
* Use strong cryptography for strong identity and verification features, but not encryption
* Produce "proof" data formats that can be easily parse, imported by existing tools (CSV)
* Do not modify the original media files; all proof metadata storied in separate file
* Support both full "proof" data generation, as well as more simple sha1/sha256 hash and PGP signature of media files
* Do not require a persistent identity or account generation

Contributions

* Some icons were used under the APL 2.0 license from the Google Material Design Icon library: https://material.io/icons/
* The App Intro library is used under the APL 2.0 license: https://github.com/paolorotolo/AppIntro
* Spongy Castle uses the same adaptation of the MIT X11 License as Bouncy Castle.: https://rtyley.github.io/spongycastle/

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Easy to use
  • Clean UI
  • Great for proving the time and location of photos
Cons
  • Does not work well across different file types
  • Frequent crashing issues when sharing photos
  • Compatibility problems with certain devices (e.g., Galaxy S9+, S20 Ultra)
  • Lack of support for external SD storage
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work as expected
  • The application is promising but has functionality issues
  • Desire for increased file type compatibility
User reviews
Very important work
by Martijn de Graaf, 2024-10-24

The app works, but I would like it to work with any file type (at least audio). Canging the file extension seems to work as a workaround, though.
by Gabriel, 2023-01-08

Good
by Emily Liun, 2022-04-18
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