Is Waplog safe to use?

Waplog integrates 8 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, and User Content and 2 more categories. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Waplog need?

Waplog requests 5 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, and Location (When In Use).

What data does Waplog collect?

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

How many SDKs does Waplog have?

Waplog integrates 8 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 2 for analytics, 3 for infrastructure, and 1 for other.

Does Waplog use Google SDKs?

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

Does Waplog use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Waplog access your location?

Yes. Waplog requests location access. The developer states: "We use your location to show people nearby and help you connect with users in your area. We only access your location while you are using the app.".

Does Waplog access your camera or microphone?

Waplog requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We need access to your camera for video calls, recording stories, and taking profile photos. The camera is only used for these features". Microphone access is for "We need access to your microphone to enable video calls and to record stories with sound. The microphone is only used for these features". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Waplog run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Waplog?

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Is Waplog safe?

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

Our take. Waplog carries 4 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 6 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 97 social networkingModerate

Trackers from other companies4 · some

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

Waplog links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesLocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersSensitive Info

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

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

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. Waplog 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 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 8 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 4 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

2analytics

4standard libraries

4 of the 8 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase Analytics

Other third partiesadvertising

Google UMP (Consent) · Google App Measurement

Standard libraries4 · 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 v6.9.3, 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.