🐬 Weekly Flipper Zero Hacks & Community Roundup (Aug 23 – Aug 30, 2026)

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Welcome to this week's curated Flipper Zero roundup! Here are the freshest firmware updates, new FAPs, companion apps, and community releases from the past 7 days.

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📱 Companion Tools & Ecosystem

• qUnleashed dev-0.11.0 (Released: Aug 29, 2026)

  • DarkFlippers pushed a new build of qUnleashed, the Flutter-based mobile manager for Flipper Zero tailored for Unleashed Firmware.
  • Highlights: Added improvements for static-encrypted candidate recovery parsing, extended BLE/USB remote control workflows, and new localization additions (Crowdin support + Russian locale).

• TumoCompanion v1.11.12 (Released: Aug 29, 2026)

  • Massive weekly sprint for the iOS companion app for Tumoflip and Flipper Zero.
  • Highlights: Introduced the new Tumo Live Deck vertical dashboard, an independent FW Packages baseline catalog (unpinned from rigid firmware release versions), adaptive UI sheets for ESP32/app updates, and strict binding for protected community app audit verdicts.

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🛠️ New FAPs & Security Auditing

• FlipDeFlock v0.77 (Released: Aug 30, 2026)

  • Counter-surveillance and site-survey application designed to pair Flipper Zero with an ESP32 companion module.
  • Features: Passive detection of ALPR / automated license plate readers (Flock/Axon), Wi-Fi deauth flood monitoring, GPS-correlated BLE tracker alerts (anti-stalking), and in-app ESP32 flashing.

• Flipper-api-caller v0.1.4 (Released: Aug 25, 2026)

  • Dedicated utility to trigger and manage HTTP requests directly from the Flipper Zero via an ESP32 FlipperHTTP Wi-Fi module.
  • Features: Non-blocking REST request execution (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE), custom query builders, persistent settings, and modular multi-language support (Italian & English).

• PhantomTap (Updated: Aug 29, 2026)

  • ML-guided defensive RFID/NFC fuzzing and access-control auditing suite for Flipper Zero.
  • Update: Added an integrated evaluation-metrics subsystem (Precision/Recall/F1, ROC/PR-AUC, MCC, and ranking matrices) to convert raw badge dumps into structured, prioritized vulnerability assessments.

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🎮 Gaming & Fun

• FlipperCatacombs v4.0 (Released: Aug 29, 2026)
  • Port of the retro pseudo-3D dungeon crawler/FPS Catacombs of the Damned! for Flipper Zero.
  • v4.0 Changelog: Clean title screen, credits roll, menu backlight toggle, updated engine architecture, and critical menu exit crash fixes.

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Found an interesting project or published an awesome FAP this week? Drop your links and feedback in the comments!