Is Cleanup safe to use?

Cleanup integrates 17 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, infrastructure, and attribution. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Usage Data. It includes 7 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Cleanup need?

Cleanup requests 8 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), and Face ID.

What data does Cleanup collect?

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

How many SDKs does Cleanup have?

Cleanup integrates 17 third-party SDKs. 5 for advertising, 2 for attribution, 1 for analytics, 1 for social integration, 3 for infrastructure, and 4 for other.

Does Cleanup use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Cleanup includes 5 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, Facebook Login, Facebook Core, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Cleanup use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Cleanup access your location?

Yes. Cleanup requests location access. The developer states: "We need an access to your location for app improvement".

Does Cleanup access your camera or microphone?

Cleanup requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Cleanup needs access to your camera so you can start taking photos and videos to save them in your Secret Space". Microphone access is for "We need an access to your mic". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Cleanup access your contacts?

Yes. Cleanup requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "We need an access to your contact list".

Does Cleanup run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Cleanup?

Other utilities apps include 1.1.1.1 , InstaWrite AI , AI Identifier , ExtraSpace , Authenticator , and Authenticator . Each app takes a different approach to utilities and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Utilities · Privacy report

Cleanup: Phone Storage Cleaner

Free · ★4.7 · DEEP FLOW SOFTWARE SERVICES

Is Cleanup safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Cleanup is built with more third-party tracking code than 76% of the utilities we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Germany.

Privacy footprint · vs 112 utilitiesHeavy

Trackers from other companies8 · a lot

typical utilities: 4

Data the app links to you1 type · some

typical utilities: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Cleanup links 1 category of your data to you.

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

Usage Data

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.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🇩🇪AdjustAttribution · Germany

Marketing attribution, built to tie installs and in app events back to ad campaigns.

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among utilities.

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 utilitie app. Cleanup 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 Germany

Adjust is a Germany company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 17 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 8 are third-party trackers.

5advertising

2attribution

1analytics

9standard libraries

8 of the 17 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login · Facebook Core

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust · Adjust Signature

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

Other third partiesanalytics

Smartlook

Standard libraries9 · 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 v6.12.0, 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 112 utilities in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.