Is Candle safe to use?

Candle integrates 2 third-party SDKs spanning media and infrastructure. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Candle need?

Candle requests 9 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Motion & Fitness, and Face ID.

What data does Candle collect?

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

How many SDKs does Candle have?

Candle integrates 2 third-party SDKs. 1 for infrastructure. None are for advertising, attribution, or analytics.

Does Candle use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Candle access your location?

Yes. Candle requests location access. The developer states: "Candle uses your location to suggest local date ideas and show the distance to your partner.".

Does Candle access your camera or microphone?

Candle requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Candle uses your camera to capture and share photos with your partner". Microphone access is for "Candle uses your microphone to share audio messages with your partner". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Candle run in the background?

Yes. Candle registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Candle?

Other lifestyle apps include AARP Now , FocusedActionJournal , Apartment List , Apartments , NGL , and ecobee . Each app takes a different approach to lifestyle and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Lifestyle · Privacy report

Candle: Couples & Relationship

Free · ★4.8 · Encore AI Labs, Inc.

Is Candle safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares Candle links 1 categories of your data to your identity, and shares data to track you across other companies apps and websites, including identifiers. That collection, more than any outside tracker, is the story here.

Privacy footprint · vs 87 lifestyleModerate

Trackers from other companies0 · none

typical lifestyle: 4

Data the app links to you1 type · some

typical lifestyle: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Candle links 1 category of your data to you.

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

Identifiers

Who else is inside

Few or no outside trackers.

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

How it compares

Where it sits among lifestyle.

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 lifestyle app. Candle sits high on the left: it collects a lot itself but uses few outside trackers.

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 declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

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 v1.7.5, 2026-04-05.

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 87 lifestyle in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.