Is Redfin safe to use?

Redfin integrates 17 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, infrastructure, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Location, Search History, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, and User Content and 4 more categories. It includes 8 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Redfin need?

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

What data does Redfin collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Redfin declares cross-app tracking via Location, Search History, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, User Content, Search History, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does Redfin have?

Redfin integrates 17 third-party SDKs. 7 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 2 for analytics, 4 for infrastructure, and 2 for other.

Does Redfin use Facebook tracking?

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

Does Redfin use Google SDKs?

Yes. Redfin includes 4 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Google AdMob, Firebase Analytics, and Google App Measurement. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does Redfin use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Redfin access your location?

Yes. Redfin requests location access. The developer states: "Redfin uses your location to show you homes nearby.".

Does Redfin access your camera or microphone?

Redfin requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Redfin needs access to your camera to upload a profile picture or upload photos to your home". Microphone access is for "Redfin needs access for you to talk with your agent during the tour". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Redfin run in the background?

Yes. Redfin registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Redfin?

Other lifestyle apps include AARP Now , FocusedActionJournal , Apartment List , Apartments , NGL , and ecobee . Each app takes a different approach to lifestyle and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Lifestyle · Privacy report

Redfin: Buy, Sell & Rent Homes

Free · ★4.8 · Redfin

Is Redfin safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Redfin is built with more third-party tracking code than 83% of the lifestyle we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Israel.

Privacy footprint · vs 87 lifestyleHeavy

Trackers from other companies10 · a lot

typical lifestyle: 4

Data the app links to you8 types · some

typical lifestyle: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Redfin links 8 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesLocationContact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 4 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

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among lifestyle.

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 lifestyle app. Redfin 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 Israel

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

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 17 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 10 are third-party trackers.

7advertising

1attribution

2analytics

7standard libraries

10 of the 17 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesadvertising

Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Google Ads Conversion · Google UMP (Consent) · Google App Measurement

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase Analytics

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

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 v621.1.0, 2026-04-05.

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 87 lifestyle in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.