Is Opera safe to use?

Opera integrates 27 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and advertising. It does not collect data linked to your identity. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Opera need?

Opera requests 6 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Location (When In Use), Speech Recognition, Face ID, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Opera collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Opera collects Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Opera have?

Opera integrates 27 third-party SDKs. 3 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 10 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 8 for infrastructure, and 1 for other.

Does Opera access your location?

Yes. Opera requests location access. The developer states: "Websites might want to access your location.".

Does Opera access your camera or microphone?

Opera requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This lets you take and upload photos and scan QR codes". Microphone access is for "This is required for Voice Search and by some websites". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Opera run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Opera?

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

Opera: AI browser with VPN

Free · ★4.7 · Opera Norway AS

Is Opera safe?

Not for an app that sees everything you do online.

Our take. A VPN carries all of your traffic, yet Opera is built with more third-party tracking code than 97% of the vpns we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Israel. We would not trust it with anything private.

Privacy footprint · vs 33 vpnsHeavy

Trackers from other companies14 · a lot

typical vpns: 3

Data the app links to you0 types · little

typical vpns: 0 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

Opera's own App Store privacy label declares it links no data to your identity. That is rare, and it is a good sign.

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 3 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 partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among vpns.

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 vpn app. Opera sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking 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 sends analytics to a company in Israel

AppsFlyer is a Israel company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 27 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 14 are third-party trackers.

3advertising

1attribution

10analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

11standard libraries

14 of the 27 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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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Analytics · Firebase Core · Firebase In-App Messaging · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Other third partiesadvertising

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

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries11 · 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 v6.4.1, 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 33 vpns in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 0.