Is blind safe to use?

blind integrates 15 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, infrastructure, and social. 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 8 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does blind need?

blind requests 4 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Contacts, and Photo Library.

What data does blind collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, blind declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects Contact Info, User Content, Search History, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does blind have?

blind integrates 15 third-party SDKs. 8 for advertising, 1 for social integration, 5 for infrastructure, and 1 for other. None are for analytics.

Does blind use Facebook tracking?

Yes. blind 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 blind use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does blind access your camera?

blind requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "NSCameraUsageDescription". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does blind access your contacts?

Yes. blind requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "NSContactsUsageDescription".

Does blind run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to blind?

Other news apps include 5-0 Radio Pro , ABC News , AJ English , Creators , AppAdvice , and Aungbarlay . Each app takes a different approach to news and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

News · Privacy report

Blind - Professional Community

Free · ★4.6 · Teamblind inc

Is blind safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. blind is built with more third-party tracking code than 70% of the news we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 newsHeavy

Trackers from other companies8 · a lot

typical news: 5

Data the app links to you0 types · some

typical news: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

blind links 0 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data blind 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 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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🇺🇸LiftoffAdvertising

In app video advertising network.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among news.

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 new app. blind 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 15 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 8 are third-party trackers.

8advertising

7standard libraries

8 of the 15 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesadvertising

Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Moloco Ads · Snap Kit

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook Audience Network · Facebook SDK

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

LiftoffAdvertising · USA

Vungle Ads

Standard libraries7 · 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 v3.81.1, 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 81 news in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.