Wyze integrates 70 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and support. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Purchases, Location, and Contact Info and 5 more categories. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Wyze need?

Wyze requests 13 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), Speech Recognition, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Local Network.

How many SDKs does Wyze have?

Wyze integrates 70 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 10 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 7 for customer support, 2 for social integration, 22 for infrastructure, and 21 for other.

Does Wyze use Google SDKs?

Yes. Wyze includes 14 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Performance, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Wyze access your location?

Yes. Wyze requests location access. The developer states: "This is required to complete setup and perform automated tasks".

Does Wyze access your camera or microphone?

Wyze requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Click "OK" to access your Camera". Microphone access is for "Click "OK" to access your Microphone". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Wyze run in the background?

Yes. Wyze registers 6 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Wyze?

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

Wyze - Make Your Home Smarter

Free · ★4.6 · Wyze Labs

Is Wyze safe?

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

Our take. Wyze carries 11 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 9 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 87 lifestyleHeavy

Trackers from other companies11 · a lot

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

Wyze links 9 categories of your data to you.

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

Health & FitnessPurchasesLocationContact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersSensitive InfoDiagnostics

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.

🇺🇸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.

SDK

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDK

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

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. Wyze sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 70 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 11 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

10analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

57standard libraries

11 of the 70 are third-party trackers. One is a push-notification SDK that delivers notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google Analytics Connector · Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Segment Analytics

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries57 · 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 v3.11.5, 2026-04-05.

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.