Is Lowe's safe to use?

Lowe's integrates 19 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, advertising, and security. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Contact Info, and User Content and 4 more categories. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Lowe's need?

Lowe's requests 8 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Speech Recognition, Face ID, Save to Photo Library, and Bluetooth Peripheral.

How many SDKs does Lowe's have?

Lowe's integrates 19 third-party SDKs. 3 for advertising, 9 for analytics, 1 for infrastructure, and 3 for other.

Does Lowe's use Google SDKs?

Yes. Lowe's includes 4 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Google AdMob, Firebase Analytics, and Google App Measurement. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does Lowe's access your location?

Yes. Lowe's requests location access. The developer states: "This will help you find your closest store, see accurate pricing and inventory information, get mobile check in alerts and more.".

Does Lowe's access your camera or microphone?

Lowe's requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This allows us to take pictures so you can search for items, scan barcodes and add receipts". Microphone access is for "Speak to search for items. ". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Lowe's run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Lowe's?

Other shopping apps include Harbor Freight , AE + Aerie , Afterpay , ALDI Grocery Pickup & Delivery , AliExpress , and Victoria's Secret . Each app takes a different approach to shopping and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Shopping · Privacy report

Lowe's Home Improvement

Free · ★4.8 · Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Is Lowe's safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Lowe's is built with more third-party tracking code than 91% of the shopping we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 80 shoppingHeavy

Trackers from other companies12 · a lot

typical shopping: 5

Data the app links to you8 types · some

typical shopping: 8 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Lowe's links 8 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesFinancial InfoContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 3 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

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among shopping.

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 shopping app. Lowe's 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. 12 are third-party trackers.

3advertising

9analytics

7standard libraries

12 of the 19 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesadvertising

Google Ads Conversion · Google UMP (Consent) · FullStory · Google App Measurement · Salesforce Marketing Cloud · Medallia Digital · Medallia · Salesforce Marketing Cloud SDK

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase Analytics

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Segment Analytics · mParticle

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 v26.3.4, 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 shopping in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 8.