Is Tagged safe to use?

Tagged integrates 97 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, analytics, and social. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Other Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, and User Content and 4 more categories. It includes 17 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Tagged need?

Tagged requests 10 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Motion & Fitness, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Tagged collect?

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

How many SDKs does Tagged have?

Tagged integrates 97 third-party SDKs. 16 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 6 for analytics, 3 for social integration, 2 for infrastructure, and 67 for other.

Does Tagged use Google SDKs?

Yes. Tagged includes 4 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA), Firebase Analytics, and Google App Measurement. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does Tagged use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Tagged access your location?

Yes. Tagged requests location access. The developer states: "We need your location so that we can show you interesting people in your area.".

Does Tagged access your camera or microphone?

Tagged requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Allow us to access your camera so that you can take photos for your profile". Microphone access is for "Allow us to access your microphone in order to be able to record a video". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Tagged run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Tagged?

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

Tagged Dating: Chat & Go Live!

Free · ★4.5 · Ifwe Inc.

Is Tagged safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Tagged is built with more third-party tracking code than 97% of the social networking we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 97 social networkingHeavy

Trackers from other companies23 · a lot

typical social networking: 4

Data the app links to you8 types · some

typical social networking: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Tagged links 8 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesLocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataSensitive InfoOther Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 6 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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🇩🇪AdjustAttribution · Germany

Marketing attribution, built to tie installs and in app events back to ad campaigns.

SDK

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

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. Tagged sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking 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 India

InMobi is a India company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 97 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 23 are third-party trackers.

16advertising

1attribution

6analytics

74standard libraries

23 of the 97 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesadvertising

AppHarbr Ad Quality · Google Ads Conversion · Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) · Nimbus Ads Core · Nimbus Ads · Nimbus Ads Render · Nimbus Ads Render Static · Nimbus Ads VAST · Nimbus Ads Render Video · Nimbus Ads Request · Open Measurement SDK (Nimbus) · Open Measurement (PubMatic) · Open Measurement (PubNative) · OpenWrap (PubMatic) · Google App Measurement · OneTrust Privacy/Consent · UXCam

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze · Braze UI

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust Signature

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Standard libraries74 · 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 v222.1, 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.