Is ClickUp safe to use?

ClickUp integrates 92 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and media. It does not collect data linked to your identity. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does ClickUp need?

ClickUp requests 13 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Calendars, Motion & Fitness, Speech Recognition, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, Siri, and Apple Music.

What data does ClickUp collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, ClickUp collects Usage Data and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does ClickUp have?

ClickUp integrates 92 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 12 for analytics, 3 for crash reporting, 1 for social integration, 32 for infrastructure, and 27 for other.

Does ClickUp use Google SDKs?

Yes. ClickUp includes 11 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config, Google Sign-In, Firebase Installations, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Google Data Transport, Google Utilities, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Remote Config Interop, and Firebase Shared Swift. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does ClickUp access your location?

Yes. ClickUp requests location access. The developer states: "To enable location based reminders, tasks, etc".

Does ClickUp access your camera or microphone?

ClickUp requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We need access to your camera to attach pictures or videos to tasks, comments, docs, and more". Microphone access is for "We need access to your microphone to attach videos to tasks, comments, docs, and more". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does ClickUp access your contacts?

Yes. ClickUp requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "To access contacts to invite members".

Does ClickUp run in the background?

Yes. ClickUp registers 6 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to ClickUp?

Other productivity apps include 1Password , AdGuard VPN , Wix , Edge Gallery , SHAREit , and AOL . Each app takes a different approach to productivity and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Productivity · Privacy report

ClickUp: Tasks, Chat, Docs, AI

Free · ★4.7 · Mango Technologies, Inc.

Is ClickUp safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. ClickUp is built with more third-party tracking code than 98% of the productivity we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 128 productivityHeavy

Trackers from other companies13 · a lot

typical productivity: 2.5

Data the app links to you0 types · little

typical productivity: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

ClickUp's own App Store privacy label declares it links no data to your identity. That is rare, and it is a good sign.

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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDKs

🏢Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Crash and performance monitoring.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among productivity.

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 productivity app. ClickUp sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 92 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 13 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

12analytics

3crash reporting

1push & messaging

75standard libraries

13 of the 92 are third-party trackers. One is a push-notification SDK that delivers notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config · Google Analytics Connector · Firebase Remote Config Interop

Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Datadog · Datadog Internal · Datadog Logs · Datadog RUM

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit · Split.io

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude · Amplitude (Flutter)

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries75 · 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 v6.7.2, 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 128 productivity in our corpus. Trackers: median 2.5. Data linked to you: median 3.