What permissions does Chase need?

Chase requests 9 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Apple Music, and NFC.

How many SDKs does Chase have?

Chase integrates 16 third-party SDKs. 2 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 12 for infrastructure, and 1 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Chase access your location?

Yes. Chase requests location access. The developer states: "We’ll use location data to help you find nearby services. We may also use your location to help detect and protect against unlawful activities, including fraud and unauthorized access to your account. We’ll use location data to help you find nearby services. We may also use your location to help detect and protect against unlawful activities, including fraud and unauthorized access to your account".

Does Chase access your camera or microphone?

Chase requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We'll use your camera to deposit checks, scan documents, verify your identity and more". Microphone access is for "We'll use your microphone in virtual meetings and more". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Chase access your contacts?

Yes. Chase requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "We need your permission to import your contact’s information from your contact list".

Does Chase run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Chase?

Other finance apps include EarnIn , Albert , Allstate , Amex , Atlas , and Autopilot . Each app takes a different approach to finance and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Finance · Privacy report

Chase Mobile®: Bank & Invest

Free · ★4.8 · JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Is Chase safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares Chase links 9 categories of your data to your identity, including purchases, financial info, location and contact info. That collection, more than any outside tracker, is the story here.

Privacy footprint · vs 80 financeHeavy

Trackers from other companies2 · some

typical finance: 3.5

Data the app links to you9 types · a lot

typical finance: 6 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Chase links 9 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesFinancial InfoLocationContact 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.

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among finance.

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

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 16 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

2analytics

1crash reporting

13standard libraries

2 of the 16 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesanalytics

Quantum Metric · Adaptive SDK

Standard libraries13 · 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 v4.730, 2026-04-01.

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 80 finance in our corpus. Trackers: median 3.5. Data linked to you: median 6.