HUD integrates 58 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does HUD need?

HUD requests 8 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Speech Recognition, and Face ID.

What data does HUD collect?

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

How many SDKs does HUD have?

HUD integrates 58 third-party SDKs. 11 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 24 for infrastructure, and 16 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does HUD use Google SDKs?

Yes. HUD includes 15 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase App Check Interop, Firebase Firestore, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Performance, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does HUD use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does HUD access your location?

Yes. HUD requests location access. The developer states: "Matches will be displayed based on your location.".

Does HUD access your camera or microphone?

HUD requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This will enable you to capture photos using your camera and upload them to your Hud profile". Microphone access is for "This will enable you to record audio messages, videos with audio, and to communicate with audio when using video chat on Hud". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does HUD access your contacts?

Yes. HUD requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "HUD needs access to your contacts in order to hide them from your match feed.".

Does HUD run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to HUD?

Other lifestyle apps include AARP Now , FocusedActionJournal , Apartment List , Apartments , NGL , and ecobee . Each app takes a different approach to lifestyle and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Lifestyle · Privacy report

HUD™ Bedroom Dating App

Free · ★4.1 · HUD STUDIO LIMITED

Is HUD safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. HUD is built with more third-party tracking code than 89% of the lifestyle we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 87 lifestyleHeavy

Trackers from other companies11 · a lot

typical lifestyle: 4

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical lifestyle: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

HUD links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiers

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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among lifestyle.

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 lifestyle app. HUD sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking 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 declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 58 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 11 are third-party trackers.

11analytics

1crash reporting

46standard libraries

11 of the 58 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

GoogleAnalytics · USA

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

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze · Braze Location · Braze Notifications · Braze Push Story

Standard libraries46 · 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 v9.3.21, 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 87 lifestyle in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.