Is ecobee safe to use?

ecobee integrates 11 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and advertising. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data and 1 more category. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does ecobee need?

ecobee requests 13 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, Local Network, and HomeKit.

What data does ecobee collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, ecobee collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It collects User Content and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does ecobee have?

ecobee integrates 11 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 4 for analytics, 4 for infrastructure, and 2 for other.

Does ecobee use Google SDKs?

Yes. ecobee includes 4 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Firebase Analytics, Google App Measurement, and Firebase Firestore. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does ecobee access your location?

Yes. ecobee requests location access. The developer states: "Your phone location will only be used for automating ecobee products and services as you come and go.".

Does ecobee access your camera or microphone?

ecobee requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Camera is needed to add products, device installation and more". Microphone access is for "Allow access to talk through your camera". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does ecobee access your contacts?

Yes. ecobee requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "ecobee would like to access your contacts".

Does ecobee run in the background?

Yes. ecobee registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to ecobee?

Other lifestyle apps include AARP Now , FocusedActionJournal , Apartment List , Apartments , NGL , and Auto Club . Each app takes a different approach to lifestyle and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Lifestyle · Privacy report

ecobee

Free · ★4.8 · ecobee Ltd.

Is ecobee safe?

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

Our take. ecobee 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 87 lifestyleModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical lifestyle: 4

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical lifestyle: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

ecobee links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 3 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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDKs

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among lifestyle.

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 lifestyle app. ecobee sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 11 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

4analytics

6standard libraries

5 of the 11 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesadvertising

Google Ads Conversion · Google App Measurement

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude · Amplitude Session Replay

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Standard libraries6 · 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 v26.4.0, 2026-04-04.

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 87 lifestyle in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.