BFF integrates 6 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, attribution, and crash-reporting. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, Search History, 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 BFF need?

BFF requests 11 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Save to Photo Library, Reminders, and Local Network.

What data does BFF collect?

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

How many SDKs does BFF have?

BFF integrates 6 third-party SDKs. 1 for attribution, 1 for crash reporting, 3 for infrastructure, and 1 for other. None are for analytics.

Does BFF use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does BFF access your location?

Yes. BFF requests location access. The developer states: "Geneva requires your location to help you find locations for your event.".

Does BFF access your camera or microphone?

BFF requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "So you can take photos in chat rooms and join video rooms". Microphone access is for "This app uses the microphone for audio calls and to record audio messages". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does BFF access your contacts?

Yes. BFF requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "We’ll upload your contacts to our server to check if your friends use Geneva. We promise to keep your contacts totally secret 🤝".

Does BFF run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to BFF?

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

BFF: Make Friends. By Bumble.

Free · ★4.1 · Geneva Technologies, Inc.

Is BFF safe?

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

Our take. BFF carries 1 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 97 social networkingModerate

Trackers from other companies1 · some

typical social networking: 4

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical social networking: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

BFF links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 1 company.

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.

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

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. BFF 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 6 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 1 are third-party trackers.

1attribution

1crash reporting

4standard libraries

1 of the 6 is a third-party tracker. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Standard libraries4 · 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 v3.2.7, 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 97 social networking in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.