KP integrates 11 third-party SDKs for analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Contact Info, and User Content and 3 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does KP need?

KP requests 15 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), Speech Recognition, Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Peripheral.

How many SDKs does KP have?

KP integrates 11 third-party SDKs. 2 for analytics and 9 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does KP access your location?

Yes. KP requests location access. The developer states: "To show nearby locations and to receive important alerts while visiting Kaiser Permanente facilities.".

Does KP access your camera or microphone?

KP requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Allow access to your camera to take photos for use as attachments?". Microphone access is for "Used for Video Visit sound". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does KP access your contacts?

Yes. KP requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "To add facility details to your phone contacts".

Does KP run in the background?

Yes. KP registers 4 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to KP?

Other health & fitness apps include 75 Days Challenge , 75 Hard , Calo , AllTrails , MenuFit , and BetterHelp . Each app takes a different approach to health & fitness and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Health & Fitness · Privacy report

Kaiser Permanente

Free · ★4.8 · Kaiser Permanente

Is KP safe?

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

Our take. KP carries 2 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 7 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 109 health & fitnessModerate

Trackers from other companies2 · some

typical health & fitness: 6

Data the app links to you7 types · some

typical health & fitness: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

KP links 7 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesFinancial InfoContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersSensitive InfoDiagnostics

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.

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among health & fitness.

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 health & fitnes app. KP sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 11 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

2analytics

9standard libraries

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

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Other third partiesanalytics

OneTrust Privacy/Consent · Quantum Metric

Standard libraries9 · 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 v7.7.0, 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 109 health & fitness in our corpus. Trackers: median 6. Data linked to you: median 5.