Opal integrates 19 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers and 1 more category. It includes 6 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Opal need?

Opal requests 7 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), and Calendars.

What data does Opal collect?

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

How many SDKs does Opal have?

Opal integrates 19 third-party SDKs. 5 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 4 for analytics, and 7 for infrastructure.

Does Opal use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Opal 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 Opal use Google SDKs?

Yes. Opal includes 5 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Google AdMob, Firebase Analytics, Google App Measurement, and Firebase Firestore. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does Opal use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Opal access your location?

Yes. Opal requests location access. The developer states: "Opal uses your rough location to provide customized recommendations.".

Does Opal access your camera or microphone?

Opal requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We use your camera to scan QR codes". Microphone access is for "needs access to your microphone so you can attach voice notes". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Opal access your contacts?

Yes. Opal requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "To connect you to your friends who also use Opal.".

Does Opal run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Opal?

Other screen time and app blocking apps include AppBlock , Blank Spaces , Brainrot , ClearSpace , Dumb Phone , and Flora . Each app takes a different approach to screen time and app blocking and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Opal: Screen Time Control

Free · ★4.8 · Opal OS

Is Opal safe?

Name: Opal: Screen Time Control iOS Privacy Check
Creator: Blank Spaces

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Opal is built with more third-party tracking code than 79% of the apps we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Germany.

Privacy footprint · vs 2020 appsHeavy

Trackers from other companies9 · a lot

typical apps: 4

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical apps: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Opal links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage Data

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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🇩🇪AdjustAttribution · Germany

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

SDK

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

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

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among apps.

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 app app. Opal 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 19 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 9 are third-party trackers.

5advertising

1attribution

3analytics

1push & messaging

9standard libraries

9 of the 19 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.

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Other third partiesadvertising

Google Ads Conversion · Google UMP (Consent) · Google App Measurement

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase Analytics

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust Signature

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude

Push & messaging1 · notifications

OneSignal

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 v3.152, 2026-03-28.

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 2020 apps in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 4.