# CameraFileCopy (open-source photo and gallery app)

> 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.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/sz3/cfc |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Other |
| GitHub stars | 961 |
| License | MIT (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/org.cimbar.camerafilecopy/ (package org.cimbar.camerafilecopy) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cimbar.camerafilecopy |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | https://cimbar.org/ |
| Official | no |
| Category | Photos, gallery & camera |
| Latest release | v0.6.8 (Aug 26, 2026) |
| Last commit | Aug 26, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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