Is X-VPN safe to use?

X-VPN integrates 4 third-party SDKs for advertising. It does not collect data linked to your identity. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does X-VPN need?

X-VPN requests 5 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Calendars, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does X-VPN collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, X-VPN collects Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does X-VPN have?

X-VPN integrates 4 third-party SDKs. 4 for advertising. None are for analytics.

Does X-VPN use Google SDKs?

Yes. X-VPN includes 1 Google or Firebase SDK: Google AdMob. These are primarily used for advertising.

Does X-VPN access your camera or microphone?

X-VPN requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "To scan to login on your other device, allow us to access your camera". Microphone access is for "needs access to the microphone to be able to attach voice notes". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does X-VPN run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to X-VPN?

Other productivity apps include 1Password , AdGuard VPN , Wix , Edge Gallery , SHAREit , and AOL . Each app takes a different approach to productivity and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is X-VPN safe?

Not for an app that sees everything you do online.

Our take. A VPN carries all of your traffic, yet X-VPN is built with more third-party tracking code than 52% of the vpns we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India. We would not trust it with anything private.

Privacy footprint · vs 33 vpnsModerate

Trackers from other companies4 · some

typical vpns: 3

Data the app links to you0 types · little

typical vpns: 0 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

X-VPN's own App Store privacy label declares it links no data to your identity. That is rare, and it is a good sign.

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.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDK

🇺🇸LiftoffAdvertising

In app video advertising network.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among vpns.

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 vpn app. X-VPN 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 sends analytics to a company in India

InMobi is a India company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

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

4advertising

4 of the 4 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

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

Other third partiesadvertising

Google UMP (Consent)

LiftoffAdvertising · USA

Vungle Ads

Standard libraries0 · 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 v42.1.8, 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 33 vpns in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 0.