Is Remind safe to use?

Remind integrates 15 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, Search History, and Identifiers and 3 more categories. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Remind need?

Remind requests 5 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Remind collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Remind collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, Search History, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data.

How many SDKs does Remind have?

Remind integrates 15 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 1 for analytics, 1 for social integration, 9 for infrastructure, and 3 for other.

Does Remind use Google SDKs?

Yes. Remind includes 1 Google or Firebase SDK: Google Sign-In. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Remind access your camera or microphone?

Remind requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "You can use the camera to take photos that you can attach to your messages on Remind". Microphone access is for "You can use the microphone to record short audio clips you can attach to your messages on Remind". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Remind access your contacts?

Yes. Remind requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "We will display your contacts so that you can invite them to join our classes on Remind.".

Does Remind run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Remind?

Other education apps include Nibble , Question.AI , Learna AI , Kiddopia , Deepstash , and SimplyPiano . Each app takes a different approach to education and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Education · Privacy report

Remind: School Communication

Free · ★4.8 · ParentSquare

Is Remind safe?

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

Our take. Remind carries 2 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 86 educationModerate

Trackers from other companies2 · some

typical education: 3

Data the app links to you7 types · some

typical education: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Remind links 7 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Remind ties to your identity.

Contact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther Data

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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDK

🏢Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Crash and performance monitoring.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among education.

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 education app. Remind sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 15 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

1analytics

13standard libraries

2 of the 15 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

Snap Kit

Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Datadog

Standard libraries13 · 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 v15.9, 2026-04-04.

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 86 education in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 3.