Is BeautyPlus safe to use?

BeautyPlus integrates 24 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, social, and attribution. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. However, it reports that no collected data is linked to your identity. It includes 9 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does BeautyPlus need?

BeautyPlus requests 8 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), and Save to Photo Library.

What data does BeautyPlus collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, BeautyPlus declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does BeautyPlus have?

BeautyPlus integrates 24 third-party SDKs. 8 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 3 for social integration, 1 for infrastructure, and 11 for other. None are for analytics.

Does BeautyPlus use Facebook tracking?

Yes. BeautyPlus includes 4 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, Facebook Login, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does BeautyPlus use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. BeautyPlus requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does BeautyPlus access your location?

Yes. BeautyPlus requests location access. The developer states: "WhenInUseUsageDescription".

Does BeautyPlus access your camera or microphone?

BeautyPlus requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "cameraDesciption". Microphone access is for "microphoneDesciption". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does BeautyPlus run in the background?

Yes. BeautyPlus registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to BeautyPlus?

Other photo & video apps include ARTA , AI Catch , Airbrush , Body Tune Editor , OldRoll , and Edits . Each app takes a different approach to photo & video and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Photo & Video · Privacy report

BeautyPlus-Selfie Photo Editor

Free · ★4.8 · PIXOCIAL TECHNOLOGY (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.

Is BeautyPlus safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. BeautyPlus is built with more third-party tracking code than 81% of the photo & video we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 102 photo & videoHeavy

Trackers from other companies9 · a lot

typical photo & video: 4

Data the app links to you0 types · some

typical photo & video: 2 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

BeautyPlus links 0 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data BeautyPlus ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 5 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🇩🇪AdjustAttribution · Germany

Marketing attribution, built to tie installs and in app events back to ad campaigns.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among photo & video.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one photo & video app. BeautyPlus sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

Two more flags.

Each is a fact read straight from the app. The same checks run on every app we scan. Only the ones that apply here are shown.

It declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

It sends analytics to a company in India

InMobi is a India company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 24 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 9 are third-party trackers.

8advertising

1attribution

15standard libraries

9 of the 24 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

Other third partiesadvertising

Moloco Ads · Open Measurement (PubMatic) · OpenWrap (PubMatic)

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust Signature

Standard libraries15 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v7.34.0, 2026-04-03.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 102 photo & video in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 2.