Is ClipTone safe to use?

ClipTone integrates 35 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, media, and advertising. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. However, it reports that no collected data is linked to your identity. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does ClipTone need?

ClipTone requests 5 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does ClipTone collect?

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

How many SDKs does ClipTone have?

ClipTone integrates 35 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 1 for payments, 11 for infrastructure, and 14 for other. None are for analytics.

Does ClipTone use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does ClipTone access your camera or microphone?

ClipTone requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This app requires access to your camera to scan items". Microphone access is for "We need access to the microphone to provide audio recording capabilities". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does ClipTone run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to ClipTone?

Other music apps include Rythmix , Zona , Shoom , Speaker Connect , Amazon Music , and ReverseAudio . Each app takes a different approach to music and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Music · Privacy report

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Free · ★4.7 · BUD Technologies

Is ClipTone safe?

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

Our take. ClipTone carries 3 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 0 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 86 musicModerate

Trackers from other companies3 · some

typical music: 6

Data the app links to you0 types · some

typical music: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

ClipTone links 0 categories of your data to you.

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

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 3 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.

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDK

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among music.

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 music app. ClipTone sits to the lower left, lighter 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 Israel

AppsFlyer is a Israel company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 35 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 3 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

1attribution

32standard libraries

3 of the 35 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Standard libraries32 · 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 v1.17.3, 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 86 music in our corpus. Trackers: median 6. Data linked to you: median 3.