Is UniversalTVRemoteControl safe to use?

UniversalTVRemoteControl integrates 28 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. However, it reports that no collected data is linked to your identity. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does UniversalTVRemoteControl need?

UniversalTVRemoteControl requests 9 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Speech Recognition, Save to Photo Library, and Local Network.

What data does UniversalTVRemoteControl collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, UniversalTVRemoteControl declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects Usage Data and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does UniversalTVRemoteControl have?

UniversalTVRemoteControl integrates 28 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 2 for analytics, 4 for infrastructure, and 18 for other.

Does UniversalTVRemoteControl use Google SDKs?

Yes. UniversalTVRemoteControl includes 2 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Analytics and Google App Measurement. These are primarily used for analytics and cloud services.

Does UniversalTVRemoteControl use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does UniversalTVRemoteControl access your location?

Yes. UniversalTVRemoteControl requests location access. The developer states: "The APP requires your permission to use location permissions. We use this permission to search for nearby devices for you more accurately.".

Does UniversalTVRemoteControl access your camera or microphone?

UniversalTVRemoteControl requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This app requires your permission to take photos or videos with your camera. The photos or videos you take will be used to upload feedback and cast to the TV for easy display of the problems you encounter and for viewing on the TV". Microphone access is for "Your microphone will be used to record your speech when you press the "Start Recording" button ". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does UniversalTVRemoteControl run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to UniversalTVRemoteControl?

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

Universal TV Remote™ Control

Free · ★4.7 · SEAMOBI TECH PTE LTD

Is UniversalTVRemoteControl safe?

It collects a lot of your data, and shares it with trackers.

Our take. UniversalTVRemoteControl carries 5 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 0 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 entertainmentModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical entertainment: 6

Data the app links to you0 types · some

typical entertainment: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

UniversalTVRemoteControl links 0 categories of your data to you.

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

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.

🏢Other third partiesattribution

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

🇺🇸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 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. UniversalTVRemoteControl sits to the lower left, lighter 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 declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 28 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

1attribution

2analytics

23standard libraries

5 of the 28 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesattribution

Tenjin · Google App Measurement

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook Audience Network

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Standard libraries23 · 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 v1.2.7, 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.