Is CoinFacts safe to use?

CoinFacts integrates 19 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and storage. It does not collect data linked to your identity. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does CoinFacts need?

CoinFacts requests 3 iOS permissions: Camera, Photo Library, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does CoinFacts collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, CoinFacts collects Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does CoinFacts have?

CoinFacts integrates 19 third-party SDKs. 5 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 8 for infrastructure, and 2 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does CoinFacts access your camera?

CoinFacts requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Camera access is required to scan barcodes". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

What are some alternatives to CoinFacts?

Other reference apps include Abide , Acorn , Aim High US Air Force , Translate AI , Curio , and Athkar . Each app takes a different approach to reference and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Reference · Privacy report

PCGS CoinFacts Coin Collecting

Free · ★4.8 · PCGS

Is CoinFacts safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. CoinFacts is built with more third-party tracking code than 58% of the reference we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 101 referenceModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical reference: 4

Data the app links to you0 types · little

typical reference: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

CoinFacts's own App Store privacy label declares it links no data to your identity. That is rare, and it is a good sign.

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 1 company.

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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among reference.

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 reference app. CoinFacts sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 19 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

5analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

12standard libraries

5 of the 19 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.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Diagnostics · Firebase In-App Messaging · Google Data Transport

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries12 · 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 v3.2.5, 2026-04-05.

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 101 reference in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.