Is Talking Ben safe to use?

Talking Ben integrates 48 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, infrastructure, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Identifiers, and Usage Data and 1 more category. It includes 12 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Talking Ben need?

Talking Ben requests 8 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Microphone, Photo Library, Calendars, Speech Recognition, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Peripheral.

What data does Talking Ben collect?

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

How many SDKs does Talking Ben have?

Talking Ben integrates 48 third-party SDKs. 11 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 3 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 8 for infrastructure, and 22 for other.

Does Talking Ben use Google SDKs?

Yes. Talking Ben includes 9 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA), Google AdMob, Firebase Analytics, Firebase Core, Google App Measurement, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does Talking Ben use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Talking Ben access your camera or microphone?

Talking Ben requests access to your microphone. The developer says this is for "Ben needs microphone access in order to hear you and repeat after you". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

What are some alternatives to Talking Ben?

Other entertainment apps include NetShort , Prime Video , AMC Theatres , AXS , Scoopz , and CastSnap . Each app takes a different approach to entertainment and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Entertainment · Privacy report

Talking Ben the Dog

Free · ★4.4 · Outfit7 Limited

Is Talking Ben safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Talking Ben is built with more third-party tracking code than 96% of the entertainment we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 entertainmentHeavy

Trackers from other companies15 · a lot

typical entertainment: 6

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical entertainment: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Talking Ben links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesLocationIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 7 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.

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🇺🇸UnityAdvertising

In app advertising from Unity.

SDK

🇺🇸LiftoffAdvertising

In app video advertising network.

SDK

🇺🇸SingularAttribution

Marketing attribution and analytics.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among entertainment.

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 entertainment app. Talking Ben 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 48 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 15 are third-party trackers.

11advertising

1attribution

3analytics

1crash reporting

32standard libraries

15 of the 48 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 Interactive Media Ads (IMA) · Open Measurement (PubNative) · Snap Kit · Google UMP (Consent) · Google App Measurement

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase Analytics · Firebase Core

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

UnityAdvertising · USA

Unity Ads

LiftoffAdvertising · USA

Vungle Ads

SingularAttribution · USA

Singular

Standard libraries32 · 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 v4.8.0, 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 81 entertainment in our corpus. Trackers: median 6. Data linked to you: median 5.