VPN integrates 43 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and advertising. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. However, it reports that no collected data is linked to your identity. It includes 5 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does VPN need?

VPN requests 2 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency and Location (When In Use).

What data does VPN collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, VPN declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does VPN have?

VPN integrates 43 third-party SDKs. 4 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 6 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for customer support, 11 for infrastructure, and 18 for other.

Does VPN use Facebook tracking?

Yes. VPN includes 2 Facebook SDKs: Facebook SDK and Facebook Core. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does VPN use Google SDKs?

Yes. VPN includes 13 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Dynamic Links, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, 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 VPN use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does VPN access your location?

Yes. VPN requests location access. The developer states: "Your location is not needed. This request has popped up due to a 3rd party framework used by the app in a context that does NOT need you to reveal you location. Do be sure to check audit trail for the location queries on ios 15 or later.".

Does VPN run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to VPN?

Other productivity apps include 1Password , AdGuard VPN , Wix , Edge Gallery , SHAREit , and AOL . Each app takes a different approach to productivity and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is VPN safe?

Not for an app that sees everything you do online.

Our take. A VPN carries all of your traffic, yet VPN is built with more third-party tracking code than 94% of the vpns we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India. We would not trust it with anything private.

Privacy footprint · vs 33 vpnsHeavy

Trackers from other companies11 · a lot

typical vpns: 3

Data the app links to you0 types · some

typical vpns: 0 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

VPN links 0 categories of your data to you.

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

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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among vpns.

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 vpn app. VPN 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 India

InMobi is a India company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 43 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 11 are third-party trackers.

4advertising

1attribution

6analytics

1crash reporting

31standard libraries

11 of the 43 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 Dynamic Links · Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook SDK · Facebook Core

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

Standard libraries31 · 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 v2.25, 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 33 vpns in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 0.