ism integrates 10 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, media, and advertising. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does ism need?

ism requests 5 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), and Save to Photo Library.

What data does ism collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, ism declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does ism have?

ism integrates 10 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 1 for analytics, 3 for infrastructure, and 2 for other.

Does ism use Facebook tracking?

Yes. ism 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 ism use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does ism access your location?

Yes. ism requests location access. The developer states: "-".

Does ism access your camera?

ism requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Camera access is required to take photos and videos". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does ism run in the background?

Yes. ism registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to ism?

Other photo & video apps include ARTA , AI Catch , Airbrush , Body Tune Editor , OldRoll , and Edits . Each app takes a different approach to photo & video and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Photo & Video · Privacy report

ism: digital camera & filter

Free · ★4.7 · MWM

Is ism safe?

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

Our take. ism carries 3 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 4 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 102 photo & videoModerate

Trackers from other companies3 · some

typical photo & video: 4

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical photo & video: 2 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

ism links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

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.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

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

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among photo & video.

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 photo & video app. ism sits to the lower left, lighter 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 10 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 3 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

1analytics

7standard libraries

3 of the 10 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude

Standard libraries7 · 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 v7.38.0, 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 102 photo & video in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 2.