MJ PDFPrivacy & permissions
What can be verified about MJ PDF 3.1.0, stated plainly and without exaggeration.
What is verified
- MJ PDF is open source under the GPL-3.0 license, so its code can be inspected on GitLab.
- The app contains no advertising.
- Your PDFs are opened and rendered on your device.
- Incognito mode is available in the reader menu.
About trackers. The project documentation states that Exodus Privacy reports a tracker in MJ PDF, and the APK bundles the ACRA crash-reporting library. This website therefore does not claim "zero tracking" or "no data collection". Review the source code and the Exodus report for details.
Permissions in the 3.1.0 APK
| READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE / WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (up to API 29) | Open and save PDFs on older Android versions. |
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| MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE | All-files access, used for browsing folders and scanning your device for PDFs. |
| INTERNET / ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE | Opening PDFs from a web address. |
| WAKE_LOCK / FOREGROUND_SERVICE | Keeps background work such as scanning alive. |
| RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED | Declared by the background-work library bundled in the app. |
This website
This site is static. It has no accounts, forms, advertising scripts or analytics code. Downloading the APK from this site is a plain file download.
Questions
Open an issue on the GitHub mirror or the GitLab project, or read the FAQ.