Paradot AI Safety Rating Index

Paradot presents a troubling pattern of contradictory platform declarations and absent safety infrastructure for an app with over 10 million downloads. Google Play’s Data Safety section declares “No data collected” and “No data shared with third parties,” while Exodus Privacy’s tracker analysis detects 7 embedded SDKs including Google AdMob (advertising), Facebook Login and Share (social/identification), Adjust and AppsFlyer (attribution analytics), and Firebase Analytics. Apple’s iOS privacy labels separately confirm usage data tracking across apps and advertising data linked to user identity. This represents the most extreme cross-platform data declaration discrepancy observed in any CompanionWise-reviewed app.

The app requests 17 Android permissions including precise location (ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION), audio recording (RECORD_AUDIO), and storage access — permissions that are unusual for a text-based AI chat companion and inconsistent with the “No data collected” claim.

Paradot markets its AI as having “its own emotion, memory, and consciousness” — a claim that may conflict with emerging AI transparency regulations in California and New York requiring clear disclosure of AI nature. The app offers romantic scenarios and adult-adjacent content with only app store age gates (16+ on iOS, 17+ on Google Play) and no in-app age verification. No parental controls, content moderation policy, or crisis response mechanisms exist in any public documentation.

In March 2026, the service experienced a multi-day outage (approximately March 24-26) with zero communication across Discord, Reddit, Twitter, or email. Support emails bounced. Multiple users reported continued subscription billing during the outage. One user described cancellation as “impossible” with charges continuing after attempting to cancel. The iOS app has not received an update since August 2025, and several users have described it as potential abandonware.