Is PicCollage safe to use?

PicCollage integrates 11 third-party SDKs spanning support, advertising, and analytics. It does not collect data linked to your identity. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does PicCollage need?

PicCollage requests 5 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), and Calendars.

What data does PicCollage collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, PicCollage collects Purchases, User Content, Identifiers, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does PicCollage have?

PicCollage integrates 11 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 1 for analytics, 6 for customer support, 1 for social integration, and 1 for infrastructure.

Does PicCollage use Facebook tracking?

Yes. PicCollage includes 3 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does PicCollage use Google SDKs?

Yes. PicCollage includes 1 Google or Firebase SDK: Firebase Core Internal. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does PicCollage access your location?

Yes. PicCollage requests location access. The developer states: "We need location access for sending geolocated notifications".

Does PicCollage access your camera or microphone?

PicCollage requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We need camera access for recording video". Microphone access is for "We need microphone access for recording video". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does PicCollage run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to PicCollage?

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

PicCollage: Magic Photo Editor

Free · ★4.8 · Cardinal Blue

Is PicCollage safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. PicCollage is built with more third-party tracking code than 30% of the photo & video we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 102 photo & videoModerate

Trackers from other companies3 · some

typical photo & video: 4

Data the app links to you0 types · little

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

What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

PicCollage'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 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. PicCollage sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 11 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 3 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

1analytics

8standard libraries

3 of the 11 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 libraries8 · 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 v8.60.1, 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 102 photo & video in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 2.