Is MyBlock safe to use?

MyBlock integrates 12 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and attribution. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Contact Info, and User Content and 2 more categories. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does MyBlock need?

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

How many SDKs does MyBlock have?

MyBlock integrates 12 third-party SDKs. 1 for attribution, 3 for analytics, 1 for payments, 2 for infrastructure, and 5 for other.

Does MyBlock access your location?

Yes. MyBlock requests location access. The developer states: "This will help us find tax offices near you.".

Does MyBlock access your camera or microphone?

MyBlock requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This lets you share photos directly from your phone. You can change this anytime in your device settings". Microphone access is for "MyBlock uses your device's microphone to do things like help you record videos. ". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does MyBlock run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to MyBlock?

Other finance apps include EarnIn , Albert , Allstate , Amex , Atlas , and Autopilot . Each app takes a different approach to finance and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Finance · Privacy report

MyBlock: Tax Docs & Refund

Free · ★4.6 · HRB Tax Group, Inc.

Is MyBlock safe?

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

Our take. MyBlock carries 4 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 80 financeModerate

Trackers from other companies4 · some

typical finance: 3.5

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical finance: 6 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

MyBlock links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesFinancial InfoContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersSensitive Info

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.

🏢Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Crash and performance monitoring.

SDKs

🇺🇸BranchAttribution

Deep linking and marketing attribution.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among finance.

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 finance app. MyBlock sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 12 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 4 are third-party trackers.

1attribution

3analytics

1push & messaging

7standard libraries

4 of the 12 are third-party trackers. One is a push-notification SDK that delivers notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Datadog · Datadog Internal · Datadog RUM

BranchAttribution · USA

Branch

Push & messaging1 · notifications

AirshipKit

Standard libraries7 · 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 v14.7.0, 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 80 finance in our corpus. Trackers: median 3.5. Data linked to you: median 6.