Is Mint Mobile safe to use?

Mint Mobile integrates 32 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and media. It collects data linked to your identity including Financial Info, Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Mint Mobile need?

Mint Mobile requests 7 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Face ID, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Mint Mobile collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Mint Mobile collects data linked to your identity including Financial Info, Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects Location and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Mint Mobile have?

Mint Mobile integrates 32 third-party SDKs. 1 for attribution, 12 for analytics, 2 for crash reporting, 8 for infrastructure, and 5 for other.

Does Mint Mobile use Google SDKs?

Yes. Mint Mobile includes 12 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, 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 Mint Mobile access your location?

Yes. Mint Mobile requests location access. The developer states: "Defining your current location is necessary to check the coverage".

Does Mint Mobile access your camera or microphone?

Mint Mobile requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "The camera is only used for scanning QR codes and visualizing the cellular signal direction". Microphone access is for "Record and share message with your microphone". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Mint Mobile access your contacts?

Yes. Mint Mobile requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Share your contacts with our care team".

Does Mint Mobile run in the background?

Yes. Mint Mobile registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Mint Mobile?

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

Mint Mobile

Free · ★4.7 · UVNV, Inc.

Is Mint Mobile safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Mint Mobile is built with more third-party tracking code than 95% of the utilities we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 112 utilitiesHeavy

Trackers from other companies13 · a lot

typical utilities: 4

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical utilities: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Mint Mobile links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

Financial InfoContact InfoIdentifiersUsage Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 4 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

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDKs

🇺🇸BranchAttribution

Deep linking and marketing attribution.

SDK

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. Mint Mobile sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 32 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 13 are third-party trackers.

1attribution

12analytics

2crash reporting

17standard libraries

13 of the 32 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

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

Other third partiesanalytics

LaunchDarkly · Optimizely · Sprig (UserLeap)

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude · Amplitude Engagement

BranchAttribution · USA

Branch

Standard libraries17 · 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 v2.3.43, 2026-04-05.

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.