Is Arccos safe to use?

Arccos integrates 14 third-party SDKs spanning support, analytics, and advertising. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Purchases, Location, and Contact Info and 5 more categories. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Arccos need?

Arccos requests 13 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Motion & Fitness, HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Siri.

How many SDKs does Arccos have?

Arccos integrates 14 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 3 for analytics, 6 for customer support, 1 for infrastructure, and 1 for other.

Does Arccos use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Arccos includes 2 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM and Facebook SDK. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Arccos use Google SDKs?

Yes. Arccos includes 2 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Analytics and Google App Measurement. These are primarily used for analytics and cloud services.

Does Arccos access your location?

Yes. Arccos requests location access. The developer states: "Location services allows Arccos to provide accurate distances, course information, and features tailored to where you are. In order to do this, we require you set location services to 'While Using the App'. We will not use your location when you are not playing golf.".

Does Arccos access your camera or microphone?

Arccos requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Arccos Golf uses the camera during the pairing process to scan your sensors and help make the process of pairing your sensors as easy as possible. We do not take or save any photos during that process". Microphone access is for "Arccos Golf uses your microphone to communicate with the sensors on the grip of your club. The microphone is also used to confirm impact between the club and the ball". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Arccos run in the background?

Yes. Arccos registers 6 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Arccos?

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

Sports · Privacy report

Arccos Golf

Free · ★4.6 · Arccos Golf LLC

Is Arccos safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares Arccos links 9 categories of your data to your identity, including health & fitness, purchases, location and contact info. That collection, more than any outside tracker, is the story here.

Privacy footprint · vs 117 sportsHeavy

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you9 types · a lot

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Arccos links 9 categories of your data to you.

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

Health & FitnessPurchasesLocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther Data

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.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDK

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDK

🏢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. Arccos sits high on the left: it collects a lot itself but uses few outside trackers.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 14 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

3analytics

9standard libraries

5 of the 14 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Other third partiesanalytics

Google App Measurement

Standard libraries9 · 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 v6.31.0, 2026-05-07.

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.