Is BassForecast safe to use?

BassForecast integrates 13 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, and User Content and 2 more categories. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does BassForecast need?

BassForecast requests 7 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), and Save to Photo Library.

What data does BassForecast collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, BassForecast declares cross-app tracking via Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does BassForecast have?

BassForecast integrates 13 third-party SDKs. 3 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 3 for analytics, and 6 for infrastructure.

Does BassForecast use Facebook tracking?

Yes. BassForecast includes 3 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, and Facebook Login. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does BassForecast use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. BassForecast requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does BassForecast access your location?

Yes. BassForecast requests location access. The developer states: "We need access to your location to provide real-time lake conditions, ratings and weather. We do not share this data with anyone.".

Does BassForecast access your camera?

BassForecast requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "We need camera access to let you click your profile picture and upload real time fishing catch logs". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does BassForecast access your contacts?

Yes. BassForecast requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "BassForecast does not upload your friend's contact information to our servers. Please allow permission to invite your friends to BassForecast.".

Does BassForecast run in the background?

Yes. BassForecast registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to BassForecast?

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

Sports · Privacy report

BassForecast: Bass Fishing App

Free · ★4.6 · BassForecast, LLC

Is BassForecast safe?

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

Our take. BassForecast carries 7 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 6 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 companies7 · some

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

BassForecast links 6 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data BassForecast ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

PurchasesLocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage 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

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

🇺🇸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 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. BassForecast sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

Two more flags.

Each is a fact read straight from the app. The same checks run on every app we scan. Only the ones that apply here are shown.

It declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

It sends analytics to a company in Israel

AppsFlyer is a Israel company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 13 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 7 are third-party trackers.

3advertising

1attribution

3analytics

6standard libraries

7 of the 13 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

Other third partiesanalytics

Google App Measurement · Google App Measurement On-Device Conversion

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

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 v8.9.0, 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.