No one - not even me - can give you a „safe to use“ guarantee. Now theoretically you could study the source code of all the open source variants, but even if you wouldn‘t find deliberate harmful source code there would still be no guarantee, as the compilers that we use might be „tempered with“ (and maliciously generate „backdoors“ for someone else to exploit), the binaries that are distributed via flightsim.to (or github.com) could be exchanged etc. etc.
But that‘s probably not what you were asking anyway
However to add to this topic: I guarantee a „no harm intended!“ - but this being the Internet my statement is worth as much as any other statement that the Internet has ever made (so basically two cents )
But seriously, you were probably asking whether any of the replay tools can damage your FS 2020 installation, and as far as the open source variants are concerned (of which I studied the source code, and am even exchanging ideas and improvements with one of the authors) I can clearly say: „They are safe to use!“
Why? First, they all install in separate directories (not in the community folder, but really „anywhere“ on your storage medium).
Second, they do not mess around with any existing installation files in your FS 2020 installation directory.
Third, they only communicate via the official SimConnect API - an „application programming interface“ introduced back in the days of FSX. That API essentially lets third party apps to „read and write so-called simulation variables“ (plus some „event handling“), and that‘s basically what makes a „flight recorder“: record a selection of those simulation variables (position, velocity, gear up/down…) and then „play it back“.
That said, it is (rather easily) possible for such a „SimConnect client“ to „crash the flight simulator“ (the SimConnect „server“), by sending invalid requests (e.g. some number which is „out of the expected range“ or does not represent a valid number at all etc.)
That should not happen (it would be a „client-side bug“), but that‘s kind of the worst that you could expect. Simply restart the simulator, inform the author of the tool and/or use a different tool
And lastly none of those applications require „administrator rights“ (unless you want to copy them into a folder only writeable by an administrator, e.g. c:/Program Files/). For sure they do not require administrator rights for running them! It is always very suspicious if an application requires administrator rights at runtime for no obvious reasons.
Most (or all) of those points also apply to other replay applications, but when in doubt: ask the respective author.
I hope that helps somewhat to assess the „damage potential“