Is Masters 2026 safe to use?

Masters 2026 integrates 2 third-party SDKs spanning media and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers and Usage Data. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Masters 2026 need?

Masters 2026 requests 9 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (Always & When In Use), Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, and Local Network.

What data does Masters 2026 collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Masters 2026 collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers and Usage Data. It collects Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Masters 2026 have?

Masters 2026 integrates 2 third-party SDKs. 1 for analytics. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Masters 2026 use Google SDKs?

Yes. Masters 2026 includes 1 Google or Firebase SDK: Google Cast. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Masters 2026 access your location?

Yes. Masters 2026 requests location access. The developer states: "This app can use your location to improve schedule displays".

Does Masters 2026 access your camera or microphone?

Masters 2026 requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This app requires access to the camera". Microphone access is for "This app requires access to the microphone". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Masters 2026 access your contacts?

Yes. Masters 2026 requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "So you can find friends for message and voice chat features.".

Does Masters 2026 run in the background?

Yes. Masters 2026 registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Masters 2026?

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.

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Is Masters 2026 safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Masters 2026 is built with more third-party tracking code than 15% of the sports we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 117 sportsModerate

Trackers from other companies1 · some

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you2 types · little

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Masters 2026 links 2 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Masters 2026 ties to your identity.

IdentifiersUsage Data

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.

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

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. Masters 2026 sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 2 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 1 are third-party trackers.

1analytics

1standard libraries

1 of the 2 is a third-party tracker. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesanalytics

Conviva

Standard libraries1 · 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 v18.0.4231, 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.