Is Action safe to use?

Action integrates 9 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, analytics, and social. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data and 1 more category. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Action need?

Action requests 9 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Face ID, Save to Photo Library, and Siri.

What data does Action collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Action collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does Action have?

Action integrates 9 third-party SDKs. 4 for advertising, 2 for analytics, 1 for social integration, 1 for infrastructure, and 1 for other.

Does Action use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Action includes 5 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, Facebook Gaming Services, Facebook Login, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Action access your location?

Yes. Action requests location access. The developer states: "Action Network needs access to your current location information to find sports and odds data most relevant to you.".

Does Action access your camera or microphone?

Action requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Use your camera to capture a profile image". Microphone access is for "We will not use your microphone". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Action run in the background?

Yes. Action registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Action?

Other sports apps include 18Birdies , 365Scores , Alt , Arccos , MLB , and Ballpark . Each app takes a different approach to sports and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Sports · Privacy report

Action Network: Sports Betting

Free · ★4.8 · The Action Network, Inc.

Is Action safe?

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

Our take. Action carries 5 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 5 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 117 sportsModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Action links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 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.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among sports.

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 sport app. Action sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 9 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

4advertising

1analytics

2push & messaging

2standard libraries

5 of the 9 are third-party trackers. 2 are push-notification SDKs that deliver 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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MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Gaming Services · Facebook Login

Other third partiesanalytics

OneTrust Privacy/Consent

Push & messaging2 · notifications

OneSignal · OneSignalLocation

Standard libraries2 · 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 v6.5.0, 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 117 sports in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.