Is DoorList safe to use?

DoorList integrates 94 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, media, and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info and Identifiers. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does DoorList need?

DoorList requests 9 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does DoorList collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, DoorList collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info and Identifiers. It collects Usage Data and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does DoorList have?

DoorList integrates 94 third-party SDKs. 7 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 5 for payments, 1 for customer support, 32 for infrastructure, and 31 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does DoorList access your location?

Yes. DoorList requests location access. The developer states: "DoorList needs location access to determine events near you. Your location data is not shared with any 3rd Party".

Does DoorList access your camera or microphone?

DoorList requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "DoorList needs camera access to scan QR codes and allow in-app photo sharing". Microphone access is for "DoorList needs microphone access to play audio for certain features such as scanning, year-in-review, camera functionality, and other non-essential functions". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does DoorList access your contacts?

Yes. DoorList requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "This allows you to receive invites and is uploaded securely to the DoorList server".

Does DoorList run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to DoorList?

Other social networking apps include Yik Yak , 3F , AM , Backbone , BeReal. , and BiP . Each app takes a different approach to social networking and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Social Networking · Privacy report

DoorList - Events & Invites

Free · ★4.8 · DoorList Event Management, Inc.

Is DoorList safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. DoorList is built with more third-party tracking code than 61% of the social networking we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 97 social networkingModerate

Trackers from other companies7 · some

typical social networking: 4

Data the app links to you2 types · little

typical social networking: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

DoorList links 2 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoIdentifiers

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 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

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among social networking.

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 social networking app. DoorList sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 94 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 7 are third-party trackers.

7analytics

1crash reporting

2push & messaging

84standard libraries

7 of the 94 are third-party trackers. 2 are push-notification SDKs that deliver 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 · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Other third partiesanalytics

PostHog

Push & messaging2 · notifications

Standard libraries84 · 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 v2.0.28, 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 97 social networking in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.