Is Zangi safe to use?

Zangi integrates 1 third-party SDK for security. According to its App Store privacy label, Zangi does not collect any user data.

What permissions does Zangi need?

Zangi requests 19 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Motion & Fitness, Speech Recognition, Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Reminders, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, Local Network, Siri, Apple Music, and HomeKit.

What data does Zangi collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Zangi does not collect any user data.

How many SDKs does Zangi have?

Zangi integrates 1 third-party SDK. It is Signal Protocol, used for security. None are for advertising, attribution, or analytics.

Does Zangi access your location?

Yes. Zangi requests location access. The developer states: "Zangi".

Does Zangi access your camera or microphone?

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

Does Zangi access your contacts?

Yes. Zangi requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "NSContactsUsageDescription".

Does Zangi run in the background?

Yes. Zangi registers 4 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Zangi?

Other social networking apps include Yik Yak , 3F , AM , Backbone , BeReal. , and BiP . Each app takes a different approach to social networking and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Social Networking · Privacy report

Zangi Private Messenger

Free · ★4 · Secret Phone, Inc

Is Zangi safe?

Yes. It is one of the clean messengers.

Our take. We found no third-party advertising or analytics SDKs in Zangi, and its own privacy label declares little or no data linked to you. For an app for private conversations, that is what you want to see.

Privacy footprint · vs 97 social networkingMinimal

Trackers from other companies0 · none

typical social networking: 4

Data the app links to you0 types · little

typical social networking: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

Zangi'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

Few or no outside trackers.

We found no advertising, analytics, or attribution SDKs from other companies in Zangi.

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. Zangi sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 1 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. None are third-party trackers.

1standard libraries

0 of the 1 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Standard libraries1 · 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 v6.0.3, 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.