Is TextMe safe to use?

TextMe integrates 40 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, analytics, and attribution. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers and 2 more categories. It includes 12 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does TextMe need?

TextMe requests 11 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Calendars, Motion & Fitness, Face ID, and Siri.

What data does TextMe collect?

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

How many SDKs does TextMe have?

TextMe integrates 40 third-party SDKs. 11 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 2 for analytics, and 26 for other.

Does TextMe use Google SDKs?

Yes. TextMe includes 3 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Firebase Analytics, and Google App Measurement. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does TextMe use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does TextMe access your location?

Yes. TextMe requests location access. The developer states: "TextMe needs your location to improve your calling experience and let you share your location with your friends".

Does TextMe access your camera or microphone?

TextMe requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "TextMe needs the access to your camera to take pictues and/or place video calls". Microphone access is for "To place a call, TextMe needs to access your device microphone". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does TextMe access your contacts?

Yes. TextMe requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "See your contact's names and text and call them directly without entering their number".

Does TextMe run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to TextMe?

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

Text Me - Phone Call + Texting

Free · ★4.7 · TextMe, Inc.

Is TextMe safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. TextMe is built with more third-party tracking code than 81% of the social networking we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 97 social networkingHeavy

Trackers from other companies14 · a lot

typical social networking: 4

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical social networking: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

TextMe links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 6 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

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

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. TextMe 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 40 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 14 are third-party trackers.

11advertising

1attribution

2analytics

26standard libraries

14 of the 40 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 · Moloco Ads · Open Measurement (Ogury) · Open Measurement (PubMatic) · Open Measurement (PubNative) · Ogury Ads · OpenWrap (PubMatic) · Google App Measurement

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook Audience Network

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Standard libraries26 · 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 v3.51.4, 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 97 social networking in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.