Is TatoTalk safe to use?

TatoTalk integrates 80 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, media, and advertising. According to its App Store privacy label, TatoTalk does not collect any user data. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs.

What permissions does TatoTalk need?

TatoTalk requests 13 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Motion & Fitness, Speech Recognition, Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Siri.

What data does TatoTalk collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, TatoTalk does not collect any user data.

How many SDKs does TatoTalk have?

TatoTalk integrates 80 third-party SDKs. 3 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 1 for analytics, 23 for infrastructure, and 46 for other.

Does TatoTalk use Facebook tracking?

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

Does TatoTalk use Google SDKs?

Yes. TatoTalk includes 4 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Core, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does TatoTalk access your location?

Yes. TatoTalk requests location access. The developer states: "When you send your location to your friends, TatoTalk needs access to show them a map.".

Does TatoTalk access your camera or microphone?

TatoTalk requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We need this so that you can take and share photos and videos". Microphone access is for "We need this so that you can record and share voice messages and videos with sound". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does TatoTalk access your contacts?

Yes. TatoTalk requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Please allow TatoTalk to read your contacts so that it can help you find all your friends seamlessly.".

Does TatoTalk run in the background?

Yes. TatoTalk registers 4 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to TatoTalk?

Other social networking apps include Yik Yak , 3F , AM , Backbone , BeReal. , and BiP . Each app takes a different approach to social networking and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Social Networking · Privacy report

Tato Talk

Free · ★4 · BackEndTech

Is TatoTalk safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. TatoTalk is built with more third-party tracking code than 52% of the social networking we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Germany.

Privacy footprint · vs 97 social networkingModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical social networking: 4

Data the app links to you0 types · little

typical social networking: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

TatoTalk's own App Store privacy label declares it links no data to your identity. That is rare, and it is a good sign.

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.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

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

🇺🇸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 social networking.

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 social networking app. TatoTalk sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

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 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 80 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

3advertising

1attribution

1analytics

75standard libraries

5 of the 80 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Core

Standard libraries75 · 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 v3.01.207001, 2026-04-05.

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 97 social networking in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.