Whop integrates 6 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and crash-reporting. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Location, and Contact Info and 5 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Whop need?

Whop requests 5 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), and Save to Photo Library.

How many SDKs does Whop have?

Whop integrates 6 third-party SDKs. 1 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for payments, 2 for infrastructure, and 1 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Whop access your location?

Yes. Whop requests location access. The developer states: "We use your location so you can use it during livestreams on Whop".

Does Whop access your camera or microphone?

Whop requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We use your camera to let you take photos, record videos, and join livestreams on Whop". Microphone access is for "We use your microphone so you can record and share audio, and speak during livestreams on Whop". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Whop run in the background?

Yes. Whop registers 5 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Whop?

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

Whop

Free · ★4.8 · Whop

Is Whop safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares Whop links 9 categories of your data to your identity, including purchases, financial info, location and contact info. That collection, more than any outside tracker, is the story here.

Privacy footprint · vs 87 lifestyleHeavy

Trackers from other companies1 · some

typical lifestyle: 4

Data the app links to you9 types · a lot

typical lifestyle: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Whop links 9 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesFinancial InfoLocationContact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 1 company.

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 partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

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. Whop sits high on the left: it collects a lot itself but uses few outside trackers.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 6 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 1 are third-party trackers.

1analytics

1crash reporting

4standard libraries

1 of the 6 is a third-party tracker. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesanalytics

New Relic

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 v5.3.0, 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.