Education · Privacy report
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Free · ★4.9 · John Donham

Is MapTap safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. MapTap is built with more third-party tracking code than 41% of the education we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 86 educationModerate
Trackers from other companies3 · some
typical education: 3
Data the app links to you0 types · little
typical education: 3 · from its own privacy label
What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

MapTap'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 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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising
A third-party SDK.
2
SDKs
🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics
Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.
1
SDK
How it compares

Where it sits among education.

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 education app. MapTap sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 7 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 3 are third-party trackers.

1
2
4
1advertising
2analytics
4standard libraries

3 of the 7 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 App Measurement
GoogleAnalytics · USA
Firebase Analytics
Standard libraries4 · 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 v3.00, 2026-04-04.

  1. 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.
  2. "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.
  3. Comparison across the 86 education in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 3.