Is SewPal safe to use?

SewPal integrates 89 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, User Content, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, User Content, Identifiers, and Usage Data and 1 more category. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does SewPal need?

SewPal requests 4 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Photo Library, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does SewPal collect?

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

How many SDKs does SewPal have?

SewPal integrates 89 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 5 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 12 for infrastructure, and 67 for other.

Does SewPal use Google SDKs?

Yes. SewPal includes 11 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does SewPal use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does SewPal access your camera?

SewPal requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Snap a picture of a plant and AINote can identify it". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

What are some alternatives to SewPal?

Other reference apps include Abide , Acorn , Aim High US Air Force , Translate AI , Curio , and Athkar . Each app takes a different approach to reference and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Reference · Privacy report

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Is SewPal safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. SewPal is built with more third-party tracking code than 71% of the reference we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Germany.

Privacy footprint · vs 101 referenceHeavy

Trackers from other companies7 · a lot

typical reference: 4

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical reference: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

SewPal links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

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.

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 reference.

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 reference app. SewPal 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 89 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 7 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

1attribution

5analytics

1crash reporting

81standard libraries

7 of the 89 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust

Standard libraries81 · 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 v1.1.0, 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 101 reference in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.