Chai integrates 64 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and advertising. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases and Contact Info. It includes 9 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Chai need?

Chai requests 5 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, and Location (When In Use).

What data does Chai collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Chai declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases and Contact Info. It collects User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Chai have?

Chai integrates 64 third-party SDKs. 9 for advertising, 11 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 2 for payments, 1 for social integration, 21 for infrastructure, and 10 for other.

Does Chai use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Chai includes 4 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, Facebook Login, and flutter_facebook_auth. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Chai use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Chai access your location?

Yes. Chai requests location access. The developer states: "Location data is used for analytics.".

Does Chai access your camera or microphone?

Chai requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Please allow access to the camera to take a photo and set as profile image". Microphone access is for "Allow microphone access for speech recognition when talking to the AI bots". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Chai run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Chai?

Other entertainment apps include NetShort , Prime Video , AMC Theatres , AXS , Scoopz , and CastSnap . Each app takes a different approach to entertainment and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is Chai safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Chai is built with more third-party tracking code than 99% of the entertainment we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 entertainmentHeavy

Trackers from other companies18 · a lot

typical entertainment: 6

Data the app links to you2 types · some

typical entertainment: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Chai links 2 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesContact Info

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 6 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

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among entertainment.

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 entertainment app. Chai sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking 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 India

InMobi is a India company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 64 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 19 are third-party trackers.

9advertising

10analytics

1crash reporting

3push & messaging

41standard libraries

19 of the 64 are third-party trackers. 3 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.

Show the full SDK list

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google Analytics Connector · Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook Audience Network · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

Other third partiesadvertising

Moloco Ads · Open Measurement (PubNative)

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude · Amplitude (Flutter)

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

Push & messaging3 · notifications

OneSignal · OneSignalLocation

Standard libraries41 · 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 v20260401.0.0, 2026-04-04.

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 entertainment in our corpus. Trackers: median 6. Data linked to you: median 5.