Sex Toy App Privacy 2026: What 11 Apps Tell Apple and Google

The Short Version

Apple and Google both make app developers fill in a privacy label: what the app collects, what it ties to you, and what it shares with other companies. On October 26, 2026 I read those labels for 11 sex toy apps, in the US App Store and on Google Play, and the privacy policies the listings point to. Both stores present the labels as the developer's own declaration. That's the point of reading them. They're the company's own words.

The range is wide. MysteryVibe's MV Health app says it collects nothing at all, in both stores. Magic Motion declares on Google Play that it may share voice recordings, photos, videos, in-app messages, your name and your email with other companies, and its policy keeps chat records on its servers for three days. Hismith's Google Play label lists your phone number and your sexual orientation among the data it may collect.

The bigger problem is that some apps tell the two stores different stories. Hismith and SVAKOM tell Apple they collect no data, and both list personal data on Google Play. OhMiBod tells Apple it collects usage data and diagnostics that aren't linked to you, and tells Google it may collect your precise location, voice recordings and in-app messages.

If privacy decides it for you, MV Health and LELO declare the least. For long-distance play, which is why most people install one of these apps, We-Vibe's labels are the lightest of the big names, and its FAQ says every communication in the app is end-to-end encrypted. Lovense does the most, and ties the most to your account.

What Each App Declares

Read the two stores side by side and the formats explain some of the difference. Apple asks whether data is linked to you, Google asks whether it's shared and whether it's optional. They don't explain all of it, which brings us to the next part.

Same App, Two Stories

A format difference doesn't turn "Data Not Collected" into a sexual orientation field. Three apps tell Apple far less than they tell Google, and two of those declare nothing at all to Apple.

Hismith. The App Store label says the developer doesn't collect any data from the app. On Google Play, Hismith lists name, email, phone number, sexual orientation, other info and photos. The privacy-policy link on its App Store page returned a 404 when we checked. The policy its Google Play page links to says sign-up may collect your voice signature, and that a voice signature and a photo ID are used, with your consent, to verify identity.

SVAKOM. The App Store label says no data collected. Its own privacy policy names Google Firebase Analytics as collecting device information, IMEI, MAC address, Android ID, the advertising identifier, SIM card IMSI and IP address among it, and says SVAKOM reserves the right to let third-party analytics providers and advertising partners collect personally identifiable information about your activity across websites.

OhMiBod. Apple's label lists usage data and diagnostics that aren't linked to you. Google's lists fitness info, name, email, user IDs, approximate and precise location, device IDs, voice or sound recordings, music and audio files, photos and in-app messages. The privacy link on its App Store page opens the policy of a different OhMiBod app, TASL, last changed in 2018. The policy OhMiBod links from Google Play and its own app page says it doesn't collect how the toy is used or whom you connect with.

We can't tell you which store has the true version. We can tell you that a label saying nothing isn't the same as an app collecting nothing, and that both labels are worth reading before you install.

Lovense, Up Close

Lovense is the app most people end up with, because its long-distance control works better than anyone's. It's the app we use, and the one our app-controlled rankings put first. It also declares the most of the big names.

Its App Store label ties contact info, identifiers and usage data to you, and Apple shows that Lovense Remote may use your location even when the app isn't open. On Google Play it lists name, email, photos, videos, app interactions and diagnostics, and it shares device IDs. Long-distance control needs an account for each of you. Lovense's FAQ says both partners need a separate account and have to add each other as friends.

The policy fills in the rest. Lovense says it logs product use from connected toys: activation dates and times, device details, connection logs and feature-usage statistics. It lists audio, electronic and visual information among the categories it can collect, and it names AI service providers and advertising partners among the third parties it works with. It says account data is encrypted in transit and at rest. It doesn't claim end-to-end encryption.

Two practical notes. Lovense's FAQ says you can refuse the camera, microphone and storage permissions, and that some features stop working without them. And Lovense Connect, the separate app Lovense makes for cam broadcasters, says on Google Play that its data can't be deleted on request, while Lovense Remote says it can.

I'd still use Lovense for long distance. I'd just go in knowing what it keeps.

The Apps That Declare the Least

MysteryVibe's MV Health app declares no data collected in either store. If an app that runs a toy over Bluetooth can live with that, the others are making a choice.

LELO's App Store label lists only diagnostics that aren't linked to you, and on Google Play it shares nothing and lists device IDs, name, email and crash logs. It's the lightest of the big brands on paper.

We-Vibe ties nothing to you in the App Store. On Google Play it shares crash logs, diagnostics and device IDs, lists photos, and says data can't be deleted on request. Its FAQ says, in its own words, "Every communication within the We-Vibe App is end-to-end encrypted." For two people in different cities, that's the combination I'd pick if privacy matters more to you than Lovense's range of toys.

How to Use Them Anyway

None of this means you need to give up the app. It means you choose what you give it.

Use the buttons when you're alone. Most app toys also run from a button or a remote, and some apps don't need an account for play from your own phone. Magic Motion's policy, for one, says you only need an account, an anonymous one, to control a toy over the internet.

Say no to permissions you won't use. Android has long asked for location permission to scan for Bluetooth devices, which is why so many of these apps want it, but camera, microphone, photos and contacts are features you can do without.

Sign up with an email address you don't use for anything else, and keep photos and voice messages in the messenger you already trust instead of the toy app.

Delete the account when you stop using it, and check first whether the app lets you. On Google Play, Lovense Connect and We-Vibe say they don't offer deletion on request.

How We Checked

We read each app's US App Store page and its Google Play Data safety page in English on October 26, 2026, and the privacy policies and FAQs linked from those listings or from the makers' own sites. The 11 apps are those of the app-controlled brands we review, plus three apps many toys from other brands use: Magic Motion, MysteryVibe's MV Health and Hismith.

These labels are declarations. Apple and Google show them as the developer's statements, and we report them that way. We did not test what the apps send over the network, so nothing here says what an app does, only what its maker says it does.

Labels and policies change. If you see one that has moved, or you make one of these apps and we've got something wrong, write to us through the contact page and we'll check it and update the table with the date.

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