Fizz integrates 6 third-party SDKs spanning social, authentication, and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, Contacts, and User Content and 3 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Fizz need?

Fizz requests 6 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), and Save to Photo Library.

How many SDKs does Fizz have?

Fizz integrates 6 third-party SDKs. 1 for analytics, 3 for social integration, and 1 for infrastructure. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Fizz access your location?

Yes. Fizz requests location access. The developer states: "Share your location to discover the most relevant content from your community, and to make sure your posts reach the right people nearby.".

Does Fizz access your camera or microphone?

Fizz requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Used to take a photo for your Fizz post". Microphone access is for "Used to record content for your Fizz post". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Fizz access your contacts?

Yes. Fizz requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "You’ll always stay anonymous on Fizz.".

Does Fizz run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Fizz?

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

Fizz: Your Authentic Community

Free · ★4.7 · Fizz Social Corp.

Is Fizz safe?

It collects a lot of your data, and shares it with trackers.

Our take. Fizz carries 1 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 7 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 newsModerate

Trackers from other companies1 · some

typical news: 5

Data the app links to you7 types · some

typical news: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Fizz links 7 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoContactsUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 1 company.

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.

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

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

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 6 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 1 are third-party trackers.

1analytics

5standard libraries

1 of the 6 is a third-party tracker. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Mixpanel Session Replay

Standard libraries5 · 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 v1.29.0, 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 81 news in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.