Is BonChat safe to use?

BonChat integrates 2 third-party SDKs for infrastructure. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers and Diagnostics. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does BonChat need?

BonChat requests 8 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Face ID, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Local Network.

What data does BonChat collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, BonChat collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does BonChat have?

BonChat integrates 2 third-party SDKs. 2 for infrastructure. None are for advertising, attribution, or analytics.

Does BonChat access your location?

Yes. BonChat requests location access. The developer states: "如果不允许，在内置浏览器访问各类 Web 网页时，页面无法获取您当前的位置，影响网页中依赖地理位置的各类功能（如地图、外卖等）。".

Does BonChat access your camera or microphone?

BonChat requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "我们需要使用相机，可以拍摄照片和视频发送给您的好友。". Microphone access is for "我们需要使用麦克风，可以录制语音消息发送给您的密友，或者和密友之间拨打语音电话。". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does BonChat run in the background?

Yes. BonChat registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to BonChat?

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

Social Networking · Privacy report

BonChat

Free · ★4.8 · Hong Kong CipherChat Tech Company Limited

Is BonChat safe?

Yes. It is one of the clean social apps.

Our take. We found no third-party advertising or analytics SDKs in BonChat, and its own privacy label declares little or no data linked to you. For a social network, that is what you want to see.

Privacy footprint · vs 97 social networkingMinimal

Trackers from other companies0 · none

typical social networking: 4

Data the app links to you2 types · little

typical social networking: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

BonChat links 2 categories of your data to you.

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

IdentifiersDiagnostics

Who else is inside

Few or no outside trackers.

We found no advertising, analytics, or attribution SDKs from other companies in BonChat.

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. BonChat sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 2 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. None are third-party trackers.

2standard libraries

0 of the 2 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Standard libraries2 · 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 v1.0.111, 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.