CimBar Scanner

about

description

CimBar Scanner sends and receives files and text as CimBar barcodes — animated images in which every frame is a grid of colored tile shapes. Point one phone's camera at another phone's screen, or at a computer running the web app, and the file arrives with no network at all. Encoding and decoding happen entirely on your device: no account, no server, no internet connection. **How it works** 1. Encode a file or a text message into a CimBar barcode: in the app's Send tab, or with the free web app at https://nfcarchiver.com/cimbar/, which runs entirely in your browser. 2. Show the barcode full screen, or send it as an animated GIF. 3. Receive it with CimBar Scanner: live-scan an animated barcode with the camera, take a photo of a single-frame one, or import the GIF. 4. Open, save or share the recovered file, or copy a received text. **Features** • Send tab: type a message or pick a file, add an optional passphrase, then show the barcode full screen — the screen stays on and bright, and repair frames keep coming for as long as it is shown — or share it as an animated GIF • Received text messages appear right in the app, ready to copy, share or save as .txt • Live scan with focus and exposure lock, an aiming guide, and hints such as "move closer" or "hold still" • Frames can be caught in any order: extra repair frames mean any N frames of an N-frame barcode complete the file, so there is no waiting for the one frame you missed • In-app photo or gallery image for single-frame barcodes • Import CimBar GIFs from your files, or share one to the app from any other app, such as your gallery; a shared photo of a single-frame barcode goes straight to the photo decoder • Reed-Solomon error correction in every frame • Automatic decompression of files that were compressed on encoding • Optional AES-256-GCM encryption, detected automatically; if a live scan turns out to be encrypted, enter the passphrase right there — no rescan • Decoded files: open them in another app, save them to Downloads or any folder, or share them • 5 languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Georgian **Privacy** No data collection, no analytics, no trackers, no ads. The only permission the app requests is the camera, used for scanning; no internet access. **Open source** CimBar Scanner is a successor to libcimbar and CFC by sz3 (https://github.com/sz3/libcimbar), the original Color Icon Matrix Barcode projects. It uses its own, newer format, so it does not read barcodes made by libcimbar or CFC. MIT licensed. Source code, format specification and the web encoder: https://github.com/mezinster/cimbar

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-10-14T00:13:51.603061+00:00

last event

2026-10-05 18:35 UTC

website

https://nfcarchiver.com/cimbar/

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

topics

#file encryption & vault #file transfer

source & build

repository

https://github.com/mezinster/cimbar

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a android-armeabi-v7a android-x86_64

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

1 release indexed; latest 0.13.0.

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

0.13.0 — cimbar-scanner-0.13.0+190.apk

sha256

f2ec870a3dffdfd9db1c8f701d2061a06742641641c23f523360cbc553401a53

size

56.9 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86_64

version code

190

apk cert sha256

9301d06305dd29980c6fb4749458de96868bfe763439c599b6354013b29738ee

download

cimbar-scanner-0.13.0+190.apk

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