Is SideShift safe to use?

SideShift integrates 13 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and media. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Contact Info, and User Content and 3 more categories. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does SideShift need?

SideShift requests 5 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), and Save to Photo Library.

How many SDKs does SideShift have?

SideShift integrates 13 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 3 for analytics, 1 for payments, 1 for customer support, 5 for infrastructure, and 1 for other.

Does SideShift use Google SDKs?

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

Does SideShift access your location?

Yes. SideShift requests location access. The developer states: "We use your location to match you with local brands and opportunities in your area.".

Does SideShift access your camera or microphone?

SideShift requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We use your camera to let you take photos, record videos, and ID verification". Microphone access is for "We use your microphone so you can record and share audio, and ID verification". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does SideShift run in the background?

Yes. SideShift registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to SideShift?

Other business apps include Acrobat , ADP Mobile , Google Ads , isolved , Printer App , and Amazon . Each app takes a different approach to business and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is SideShift safe?

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

Our take. SideShift carries 4 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 115 businessModerate

Trackers from other companies4 · some

typical business: 3

Data the app links to you7 types · some

typical business: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

SideShift links 7 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesFinancial InfoContact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage 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.

SDKs

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among business.

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 busines app. SideShift sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 13 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 4 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

3analytics

9standard libraries

4 of the 13 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesadvertising

Google Ads Conversion · Google App Measurement · New Relic

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Standard libraries9 · 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 v2.12, 2026-04-01.

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 115 business in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 5.