CameraFileCopy
CameraFileCopy is a free, open-source photo and gallery app for Android. Use your camera to transfer data – even in airplane mode. It has 961 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.
About CameraFileCopy
Using animated bar codes, it's possible to send data over the air using only the camera. This app is the barcode decoder (receiver). An encoder (sender) can be seen at cimbar.org. With CameraFileCopy it is possible to receive data over the camera as a one-way data channel. It does not use any antennas (wifi, bluetooth, nfc, ...) or other tricks. Notably, this means it works just as well in airplane mode. The app reads animated cimbar codes. Nearly all the interesting logic is from libcimbar – included via a git subtree. The sender component of cfc is a cimbar encoder -- such as cimbar.org.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds CameraFileCopy from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.
Screenshots
Screenshots from the app's F-Droid listing.
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What is CameraFileCopy?
CameraFileCopy is a free, open-source photo and gallery app for Android. Use your camera to transfer data – even in airplane mode. It has 961 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.
Is CameraFileCopy free and open source?
Yes. CameraFileCopy's source code is public on GitHub under the MIT license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.
How do I install CameraFileCopy?
You can install CameraFileCopy from F-Droid (package org.cimbar.camerafilecopy) and from Google Play; the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v0.6.8).
Is CameraFileCopy still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Aug 26, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Mar 25, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.