Is www.darktable.org safe?
https://www.darktable.org/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
darktable.org is the long-running home of a free, open-source photo editor with no security threats detected
This site presents darktable, an open-source photography workflow application and raw developer released under the GNU General Public License Version 3 or later. The domain is about 6,138 days old, which is roughly 16 years. Security checks found no malicious or suspicious detections and no Safe Browsing warning. The connection is properly encrypted. We found no sales, subscriptions or payment flow, so we rate it Safe.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 92/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain has been registered for about 6,138 days.
- SupportsThere were no malicious detections and no Safe Browsing warning.
- SupportsThe software is released under GPL version 3 or later.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
This site presents darktable, an open-source photography workflow application and raw developer released under the GNU General Public License Version 3 or later. The domain is about 6,138 days old, which is roughly 16 years. Security checks found no malicious or suspicious detections and no Safe Browsing warning. The connection is properly encrypted. We found no sales, subscriptions or payment flow, so we rate it Safe.
A free open-source project with public community channels
The site describes darktable as a virtual lighttable and darkroom that manages photographers' raw images and lets them develop and enhance them. It says the software is created for photographers, by photographers.
Its outbound links lead to the project's source code on GitHub, a discussion forum at discuss.pixls.us, Matrix rooms for user and developer support, and the GNU licence text. None of these links carry any commercial or paid offer.
Technical checks are clean and there is no money at stake
Across 93 security engines there were 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections. Safe Browsing returned no warning, and the site uses a valid encrypted connection.
The captured page showed no direct contact email. Support is instead handled through public GitHub issues, pull requests and chat rooms. That is normal for a free community project and is a minor point, not a risk signal.
Why the score is 92
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 58 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 35 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefendermisc
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googletechnology
- Sophosblogs and forums
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
darktable
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
darktable
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
darktable
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
darktable
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The software is released under GPL version 3 or later.
- 02There were no malicious detections and no Safe Browsing warning.
- 03The domain has been registered for about 6,138 days.
Web research findings
Independent findings for www.darktable.org, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for www.darktable.org. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainwww.darktable.org
- Redirects towww.darktable.org
- Hosted byHetzner Online GmbH
- Referencesdiscuss.pixls.us · flickr.com
Domain Timeline
- Dec 28, 2009Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 16 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 18, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
www.darktable.org has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- Links to 9 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for darktable.org.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 18, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 18, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is www.darktable.org legit and safe?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
darktable.org is the long-running home of a free, open-source photo editor with no security threats detected
This site presents darktable, an open-source photography workflow application and raw developer released under the GNU General Public License Version 3 or later. The domain is about 6,138 days old, which is roughly 16 years. Security checks found no malicious or suspicious detections and no Safe Browsing warning. The connection is properly encrypted. We found no sales, subscriptions or payment flow, so we rate it Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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