Is CrimeRadar safe to use?

CrimeRadar integrates 7 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, attribution, and crash-reporting. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Contact Info and Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, and Search History and 3 more categories. It includes 5 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does CrimeRadar need?

CrimeRadar requests 9 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Calendars, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does CrimeRadar collect?

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

How many SDKs does CrimeRadar have?

CrimeRadar integrates 7 third-party SDKs. 4 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 1 for crash reporting, and 1 for social integration. None are for analytics.

Does CrimeRadar use Facebook tracking?

Yes. CrimeRadar includes 4 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, Facebook Login, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does CrimeRadar use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does CrimeRadar access your location?

Yes. CrimeRadar requests location access. The developer states: "Your location will only be used to deliver local incidents.".

Does CrimeRadar access your camera or microphone?

CrimeRadar requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "User can upload profile picture from camera". Microphone access is for "This app requires the access to Microphone to record your voice memo". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does CrimeRadar access your contacts?

Yes. CrimeRadar requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Allowing access to your address book helps you see the contacts you can choose to invite.".

Does CrimeRadar run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to CrimeRadar?

Other news apps include 5-0 Radio Pro , ABC News , AJ English , Creators , AppAdvice , and Aungbarlay . Each app takes a different approach to news and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is CrimeRadar safe?

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

Our take. CrimeRadar carries 5 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 7 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 newsModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical news: 5

Data the app links to you7 types · some

typical news: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

CrimeRadar links 7 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataOther Data

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.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇩🇪AdjustAttribution · Germany

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

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among news.

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 new app. CrimeRadar 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 7 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

4advertising

1attribution

1crash reporting

1standard libraries

5 of the 7 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 · Facebook Login

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust Signature

Standard libraries1 · 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 v26.13.0, 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 81 news in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.