Is Flashscore safe to use?

Flashscore integrates 113 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, infrastructure, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers. It includes 14 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Flashscore need?

Flashscore requests 4 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Photo Library, Calendars, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Flashscore collect?

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

How many SDKs does Flashscore have?

Flashscore integrates 113 third-party SDKs. 13 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 9 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for social integration, 13 for infrastructure, and 73 for other.

Does Flashscore use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Flashscore includes 4 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, Facebook Login, and Facebook Core. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Flashscore use Google SDKs?

Yes. Flashscore includes 19 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Google Ads Conversion, Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA), Google AdMob, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Analytics, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config, Google App Measurement, Google Data Transport, Google Tag Manager, Firebase Crashlytics, Google Sign-In, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Google Utilities, FirebaseInAppMessaging_iOS, and Mux_Stats_Google_IMA. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does Flashscore use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Flashscore run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Flashscore?

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

Flashscore: Live Scores & News

Free · ★4.8 · Livesport s.r.o.

Is Flashscore safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Flashscore is built with more third-party tracking code than 99% of the sports we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Israel.

Privacy footprint · vs 117 sportsHeavy

Trackers from other companies23 · a lot

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Flashscore links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiers

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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🇺🇸LiftoffAdvertising

In app video advertising network.

SDK

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

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. Flashscore 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 113 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 23 are third-party trackers.

13advertising

1attribution

9analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

88standard libraries

23 of the 113 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

Other third partiesadvertising

Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Digital Turbine Exchange · Google Ads Conversion · Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) · Digital Turbine (InnerActive) · Snap Kit · Google UMP (Consent) · Google App Measurement · Google Tag Manager · Mux Analytics · OneTrust Privacy/Consent

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Analytics · Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config · Google Data Transport

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login · Facebook Core

LiftoffAdvertising · USA

Vungle Ads

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries88 · 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 v26.3.0, 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 117 sports in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.