Grok integrates 6 third-party SDKs spanning media, attribution, and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, Identifiers, and Diagnostics. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Grok need?

Grok requests 8 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Motion & Fitness, Speech Recognition, Face ID, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Grok collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Grok collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, Identifiers, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does Grok have?

Grok integrates 6 third-party SDKs. 1 for attribution, 1 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for customer support, and 1 for infrastructure.

Does Grok access your location?

Yes. Grok requests location access. The developer states: "Allow Grok to use your device location to provide more relevant responses.".

Does Grok access your camera or microphone?

Grok requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Grok needs permission to take photos so the user can attach them to conversations". Microphone access is for "Grok uses your microphone to transcibe your voice ". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Grok run in the background?

Yes. Grok registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Grok?

Other productivity apps include 1Password , AdGuard VPN , Wix , Edge Gallery , SHAREit , and AOL . Each app takes a different approach to productivity and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Productivity · Privacy report

Grok - AI Chat & Video

Free · ★4.9 · xAI

Is Grok safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Grok is built with more third-party tracking code than 39% of the productivity we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Israel.

Privacy footprint · vs 128 productivityModerate

Trackers from other companies2 · some

typical productivity: 2.5

Data the app links to you3 types · little

typical productivity: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Grok links 3 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoIdentifiersDiagnostics

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.

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

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. Grok 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 6 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

1attribution

1analytics

1crash reporting

3standard libraries

2 of the 6 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Mixpanel Session Replay

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 v1.3.53, 2026-04-01.

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.