Is Fanatics safe to use?

Fanatics integrates 20 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and attribution. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Contact Info, and Identifiers and 2 more categories. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Fanatics need?

Fanatics requests 5 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), and Bluetooth.

What data does Fanatics collect?

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

How many SDKs does Fanatics have?

Fanatics integrates 20 third-party SDKs. 1 for attribution, 7 for analytics, 6 for infrastructure, and 6 for other.

Does Fanatics use Google SDKs?

Yes. Fanatics includes 5 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Core, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase, and GoogleUtilities-NSData. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Fanatics use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Fanatics access your location?

Yes. Fanatics requests location access. The developer states: "Your location is used to improve search results.".

What are some alternatives to Fanatics?

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

Fanatics: Shop NFL, NBA & MLB

Free · ★4.9 · Fanatics, Inc.

Is Fanatics safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Fanatics is built with more third-party tracking code than 73% of the sports we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Israel.

Privacy footprint · vs 117 sportsHeavy

Trackers from other companies8 · a lot

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Fanatics links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesFinancial InfoContact InfoIdentifiersUsage DataOther Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 5 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.

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDKs

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

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

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. Fanatics 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 20 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 8 are third-party trackers.

1attribution

7analytics

12standard libraries

8 of the 20 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Segment Analytics · Segment

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google Analytics Connector · Firebase Core

Other third partiesanalytics

Salesforce Marketing Cloud · Salesforce Marketing Cloud SDK

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude

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 v4.34.1, 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.