Is theCut safe to use?

theCut integrates 45 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and payments. It collects data linked to your identity including Financial Info, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers and 2 more categories. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does theCut need?

theCut requests 10 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Calendars, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Peripheral.

How many SDKs does theCut have?

theCut integrates 45 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 7 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 5 for payments, 1 for customer support, 17 for infrastructure, and 10 for other.

Does theCut use Facebook tracking?

Yes. theCut 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 theCut use Google SDKs?

Yes. theCut includes 14 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Dynamic Links, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Performance, 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 theCut access your location?

Yes. theCut requests location access. The developer states: "Your current location will be used to find barbers near you.".

Does theCut access your camera or microphone?

theCut requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Camera access will be used to take photos to upload to theCut". Microphone access is for "Microphone required for uploading identity verification documentation". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does theCut access your contacts?

Yes. theCut requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Contacts access will be used to add your contacts to theCut.".

Does theCut run in the background?

Yes. theCut registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to theCut?

Other lifestyle apps include AARP Now , FocusedActionJournal , Apartment List , Apartments , NGL , and ecobee . Each app takes a different approach to lifestyle and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Lifestyle · Privacy report

theCut: Barbershop Booking

Free · ★4.7 · theCut Inc

Is theCut safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. theCut is built with more third-party tracking code than 83% of the lifestyle we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 87 lifestyleHeavy

Trackers from other companies10 · a lot

typical lifestyle: 4

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical lifestyle: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

theCut links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

Financial InfoContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

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.

🇺🇸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

How it compares

Where it sits among lifestyle.

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 lifestyle app. theCut sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 45 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 10 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

1attribution

7analytics

1crash reporting

34standard libraries

10 of the 45 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 Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

Standard libraries34 · 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 v1.104.0, 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 87 lifestyle in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.