Is UK ETA safe to use?

UK ETA integrates 23 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and crash-reporting. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, and Sensitive Info. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does UK ETA need?

UK ETA requests 5 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and NFC.

What data does UK ETA collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, UK ETA collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, and Sensitive Info. It collects Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does UK ETA have?

UK ETA integrates 23 third-party SDKs. 4 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 8 for infrastructure, and 10 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does UK ETA use Google SDKs?

Yes. UK ETA includes 9 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does UK ETA access your camera or microphone?

UK ETA requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Scan your travel documents with ease". Microphone access is for "Required for video capture". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

What are some alternatives to UK ETA?

Other utilities apps include 1.1.1.1 , InstaWrite AI , AI Identifier , ExtraSpace , Authenticator , and Authenticator . Each app takes a different approach to utilities and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Utilities · Privacy report

UK ETA

Free · ★3.3 · Home Office

Is UK ETA safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. UK ETA is built with more third-party tracking code than 44% of the utilities we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 112 utilitiesModerate

Trackers from other companies4 · some

typical utilities: 4

Data the app links to you3 types · little

typical utilities: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

UK ETA links 3 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoUser ContentSensitive Info

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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among utilities.

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 utilitie app. UK ETA sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 23 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 4 are third-party trackers.

4analytics

1crash reporting

18standard libraries

4 of the 23 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Standard libraries18 · 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 v2.32.858, 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 112 utilities in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.