Is Facelab safe to use?

Facelab integrates 45 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, analytics, and attribution. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Location, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, User Content, and Identifiers and 2 more categories. It includes 15 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Facelab need?

Facelab requests 7 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), and Calendars.

What data does Facelab collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Facelab declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Location, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does Facelab have?

Facelab integrates 45 third-party SDKs. 12 for advertising, 3 for attribution, 4 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for social integration, and 23 for other.

Does Facelab use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Facelab includes 3 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Facelab use Google SDKs?

Yes. Facelab includes 3 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Firebase Analytics, and Google App Measurement. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does Facelab use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Facelab access your location?

Yes. Facelab requests location access. The developer states: "Facelab needs your location to provide personalised advertising experience tailored to you".

Does Facelab access your camera?

Facelab requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Would like to Access the Camera". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Facelab access your contacts?

Yes. Facelab requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "This app requires contacts access to function properly.".

Does Facelab run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Facelab?

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

Facelab: Face & Body Editor

Free · ★4.6 · IRONTECH LIMITED

Is Facelab safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Facelab is built with more third-party tracking code than 99% of the photo & video we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Germany.

Privacy footprint · vs 102 photo & videoHeavy

Trackers from other companies18 · a lot

typical photo & video: 4

Data the app links to you6 types · some

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

What it collects about you

Facelab links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesLocationUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 8 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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🇩🇪AdjustAttribution · Germany

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDK

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

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. Facelab 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 Germany

Adjust is a Germany company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 45 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 18 are third-party trackers.

12advertising

3attribution

3analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

25standard libraries

18 of the 45 are third-party trackers. One is a push-notification SDK that delivers notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesadvertising

Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Google Ads Conversion · Moloco Ads · Open Measurement (Ogury) · Open Measurement (PubMatic) · Open Measurement (PubNative) · Ogury Ads · OpenWrap (PubMatic) · Google App Measurement

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust · Adjust Signature

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Push & messaging1 · notifications

OneSignal

Standard libraries25 · 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 v2.89, 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.