Is Moodle safe to use?

Moodle integrates 8 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and messaging. According to its App Store privacy label, Moodle does not collect any user data.

What permissions does Moodle need?

Moodle requests 4 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, and Face ID.

What data does Moodle collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Moodle does not collect any user data.

How many SDKs does Moodle have?

Moodle integrates 8 third-party SDKs. 2 for analytics and 5 for infrastructure. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Moodle use Google SDKs?

Yes. Moodle includes 6 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase Core, Google Data Transport, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Moodle access your camera or microphone?

Moodle requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We need camera access to take pictures so you can use them for changing your profile picture, attach them in your tasks submission and share them with the teachers". Microphone access is for "We need microphone access to record sounds so you can attach them as part of your submissions". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Moodle run in the background?

Yes. Moodle registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Moodle?

Other education apps include Nibble , Question.AI , Learna AI , Kiddopia , Deepstash , and SimplyPiano . Each app takes a different approach to education and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Education · Privacy report

Moodle

Free · ★4.4 · Moodle Pty Ltd

Is Moodle safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Moodle is built with more third-party tracking code than 31% of the education we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 86 educationModerate

Trackers from other companies2 · 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.

Moodle'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 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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

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. Moodle sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 8 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

2analytics

1push & messaging

5standard libraries

2 of the 8 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.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Core · Google Data Transport

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries5 · 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 v5.1.1, 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 86 education in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 3.