Is Color Widgets safe to use?

Color Widgets integrates 33 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and advertising. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Color Widgets need?

Color Widgets requests 8 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Calendars, HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), Reminders, and Apple Music.

What data does Color Widgets collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Color Widgets declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers. It collects Purchases, Location, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Color Widgets have?

Color Widgets integrates 33 third-party SDKs. 3 for advertising, 6 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for payments, 1 for social integration, 13 for infrastructure, and 1 for other.

Does Color Widgets use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Color Widgets 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 Color Widgets use Google SDKs?

Yes. Color Widgets includes 19 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase App Check Interop, Firebase Auth, Firebase Auth Interop, Firebase Firestore, Firebase Storage, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Google Sign-In, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, Google Utilities, and FirebaseAppCheck. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Color Widgets use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Color Widgets access your location?

Yes. Color Widgets requests location access. The developer states: "Location permission needed to display local weather on your widgets.".

What are some alternatives to Color Widgets?

Other utilities apps include 1.1.1.1 , InstaWrite AI , AI Identifier , ExtraSpace , Authenticator , and Authenticator . Each app takes a different approach to utilities and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Utilities · Privacy report

Color Widgets

Free · ★4.6 · Digital Charms, Inc.

Is Color Widgets safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Color Widgets is built with more third-party tracking code than 79% of the utilities we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 112 utilitiesHeavy

Trackers from other companies9 · a lot

typical utilities: 4

Data the app links to you1 type · some

typical utilities: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Color Widgets links 1 category of your data to you.

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

Identifiers

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 3 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

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among utilities.

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 utilitie app. Color Widgets 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 33 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 9 are third-party trackers.

3advertising

6analytics

1crash reporting

23standard libraries

9 of the 33 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 A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

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 v8.1.0, 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 112 utilities in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.