BiP integrates 74 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and media. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, and Contacts and 1 more category. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does BiP need?

BiP requests 12 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Siri.

What data does BiP collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, BiP collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, Contacts, and User Content. It collects User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does BiP have?

BiP integrates 74 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 2 for attribution, 9 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 16 for infrastructure, and 38 for other.

Does BiP use Google SDKs?

Yes. BiP includes 13 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Performance, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does BiP access your location?

Yes. BiP requests location access. The developer states: "BiP konum bilginizi arkadaşlarınızla paylaşabilir".

Does BiP access your camera or microphone?

BiP requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "BiP needs to access your camera so that you can make video calls, capture photos and videos". Microphone access is for "BiP needs to access your microphone so that you can call your friends, send audio notes". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does BiP access your contacts?

Yes. BiP requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "BiP needs to sync your address book to BiP servers to enable your communication with your friends.".

Does BiP run in the background?

Yes. BiP registers 6 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to BiP?

Other social networking apps include Yik Yak , 3F , AM , Backbone , BeReal. , and BLK . Each app takes a different approach to social networking and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Social Networking · Privacy report

BiP - Messenger, Video Call

Free · ★4.7 · Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.

Is BiP safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. BiP is built with more third-party tracking code than 76% of the social networking we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Germany.

Privacy footprint · vs 97 social networkingHeavy

Trackers from other companies12 · a lot

typical social networking: 4

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical social networking: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

BiP links 5 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data BiP ties to your identity.

PurchasesLocationContact InfoContactsUser Content

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 4 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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🇩🇪AdjustAttribution · Germany

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

SDKs

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among social networking.

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 social networking app. BiP sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

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 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 74 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 12 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

2attribution

9analytics

1crash reporting

61standard libraries

12 of the 74 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust · Adjust Signature

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Segment Analytics · Mixpanel

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit

Standard libraries61 · 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 v4.6.5, 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 97 social networking in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.