Is Ivocal safe to use?

Ivocal integrates 42 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and advertising. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Browsing History and Identifiers. It includes 7 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Ivocal need?

Ivocal requests 4 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, and Photo Library.

What data does Ivocal collect?

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

How many SDKs does Ivocal have?

Ivocal integrates 42 third-party SDKs. 5 for advertising, 2 for attribution, 7 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 10 for infrastructure, and 14 for other.

Does Ivocal use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Ivocal includes 2 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM and Facebook SDK. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Ivocal use Google SDKs?

Yes. Ivocal includes 14 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, 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 Ivocal use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Ivocal access your camera or microphone?

Ivocal requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Enable 'Ivocal' to access your camera, so that you can add the photos and videos you take directly to your diary". Microphone access is for ""Ivocal" would like to access your microphone Once the microphone is enabled, you can record sound". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Ivocal run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Ivocal?

Other music apps include Rythmix , Zona , Shoom , Speaker Connect , Amazon Music , and ReverseAudio . Each app takes a different approach to music and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Music · Privacy report

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Is Ivocal safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Ivocal is built with more third-party tracking code than 92% of the music we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Germany.

Privacy footprint · vs 86 musicHeavy

Trackers from other companies14 · a lot

typical music: 6

Data the app links to you2 types · some

typical music: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Ivocal links 2 categories of your data to you.

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

Browsing HistoryIdentifiers

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 5 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

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇩🇪AdjustAttribution · Germany

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among music.

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 music app. Ivocal 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 Germany

Adjust is a Germany company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 42 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 14 are third-party trackers.

5advertising

2attribution

7analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

26standard libraries

14 of the 42 are third-party trackers. One is a push-notification SDK that delivers notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. 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

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

Other third partiesadvertising

Moloco Ads · Snap Kit

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust · Adjust Signature

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries26 · 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 v1.1.6, 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 86 music in our corpus. Trackers: median 6. Data linked to you: median 3.