Is Enigma safe to use?

Enigma integrates 7 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and attribution. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers and 2 more categories. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Enigma need?

Enigma requests 7 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), and Motion & Fitness.

What data does Enigma collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Enigma collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does Enigma have?

Enigma integrates 7 third-party SDKs. 1 for attribution, 2 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, and 3 for infrastructure.

Does Enigma access your location?

Yes. Enigma requests location access. The developer states: "Your location is used on the map, for submissions, and to provide time-sensitive notifications.".

Does Enigma access your camera or microphone?

Enigma requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Use your camera to capture unidentified objects, view known objects in AR". Microphone access is for "Use your microphone to record audio while capturing video". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Enigma run in the background?

Yes. Enigma registers 5 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Enigma?

Other news apps include 5-0 Radio Pro , ABC News , AJ English , Creators , AppAdvice , and Aungbarlay . Each app takes a different approach to news and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

News · Privacy report

Enigma: What’s that in the Sky

Free · ★4.8 · Enigma Labs, LLC

Is Enigma safe?

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

Our take. Enigma carries 3 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 6 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 newsModerate

Trackers from other companies3 · some

typical news: 5

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical news: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Enigma links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

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.

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDKs

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among news.

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 new app. Enigma sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

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

1attribution

2analytics

1crash reporting

3standard libraries

3 of the 7 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze · Braze Location

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Standard libraries3 · 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 v2.4.8, 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 81 news in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.