Is TuneIn Radio safe to use?

TuneIn Radio integrates 39 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, infrastructure, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Location, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, and Search History and 3 more categories. It includes 21 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does TuneIn Radio need?

TuneIn Radio requests 16 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Speech Recognition, Save to Photo Library, Reminders, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, Local Network, Siri, and Apple Music.

What data does TuneIn Radio collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, TuneIn Radio declares cross-app tracking via Location, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, Search History, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It collects Purchases and User Content not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does TuneIn Radio have?

TuneIn Radio integrates 39 third-party SDKs. 21 for advertising, 2 for analytics, 3 for infrastructure, and 12 for other.

Does TuneIn Radio use Facebook tracking?

Yes. TuneIn Radio includes 3 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, and Facebook Login. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does TuneIn Radio use Google SDKs?

Yes. TuneIn Radio includes 5 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Cast, Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA), Google AdMob, AppLovinMediationGoogleAdManagerAdapter, and AppLovinMediationGoogleAdapter. These are primarily used for advertising.

Does TuneIn Radio use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does TuneIn Radio access your location?

Yes. TuneIn Radio requests location access. The developer states: "TuneIn uses your location to find your local stations.".

Does TuneIn Radio access your camera or microphone?

TuneIn Radio requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "TuneIn uses your camera to set your Profile avatar or background photo". Microphone access is for "TuneIn uses your microphone to create recordings". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does TuneIn Radio access your contacts?

Yes. TuneIn Radio requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "TuneIn uses your contacts to help you send invites to your friends.".

Does TuneIn Radio run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to TuneIn Radio?

Other music apps include Rythmix , Zona , Shoom , Speaker Connect , Amazon Music , and ReverseAudio . Each app takes a different approach to music and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Music · Privacy report

TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports

Free · ★4.8 · TuneIn

Is TuneIn Radio safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. TuneIn Radio is built with more third-party tracking code than 97% of the music we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 86 musicHeavy

Trackers from other companies23 · a lot

typical music: 6

Data the app links to you7 types · some

typical music: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

TuneIn Radio links 7 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 9 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

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🇮🇱ironSourceAdvertising · Israel

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇺🇸UnityAdvertising

In app advertising from Unity.

SDK

🇺🇸LiftoffAdvertising

In app video advertising network.

SDK

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among music.

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 music app. TuneIn Radio 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 39 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 23 are third-party trackers.

21advertising

2analytics

16standard libraries

23 of the 39 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

AdsWizz · Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) · Digital Turbine (InnerActive) · Open Measurement (Ogury) · Open Measurement (Prebid) · Open Measurement (PubMatic) · Open Measurement (PubNative) · Ogury Ads · OpenWrap (PubMatic) · Google UMP (Consent) · OneTrust Privacy/Consent

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook Audience Network · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

ironSourceAdvertising · Israel

ironSource

UnityAdvertising · USA

Unity Ads

LiftoffAdvertising · USA

Vungle Ads

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze

Standard libraries16 · 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 v41.2.0, 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 86 music in our corpus. Trackers: median 6. Data linked to you: median 3.