Is Dumb Phone safe to use?

Dumb Phone integrates 4 third-party SDKs spanning analytics and advertising. 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 Dumb Phone need?

Dumb Phone requests 5 iOS permissions: Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Save to Photo Library, and NFC.

What data does Dumb Phone collect?

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

How many SDKs does Dumb Phone have?

Dumb Phone integrates 4 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising and 3 for analytics.

Does Dumb Phone use Google SDKs?

Yes. Dumb Phone includes 3 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Firebase Analytics, and Google App Measurement. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does Dumb Phone access your location?

Yes. Dumb Phone requests location access. The developer states: "Fetch the latest weather forecast for the Home Screen.".

Does Dumb Phone run in the background?

Yes. Dumb Phone registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Dumb Phone?

Other screen time and app blocking apps include AppBlock , Blank Spaces , Brainrot , ClearSpace , Flora , and Forest . Each app takes a different approach to screen time and app blocking and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Productivity · Privacy report

Dumb Phone (dp)

Free · ★4.6 · Michael Tigas

Is Dumb Phone safe?

Name: Dumb Phone (dp) iOS Privacy Check
Creator: Blank Spaces

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Dumb Phone is built with more third-party tracking code than 57% of the productivity we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 128 productivityModerate

Trackers from other companies4 · some

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.

Dumb Phone'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 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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

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

SDK

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDK

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. Dumb Phone sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 4 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 4 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

3analytics

4 of the 4 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesadvertising

Google Ads Conversion · Google App Measurement

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Standard libraries0 · 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 v1.11.8, 2026-03-31.

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.