Is MyWDFW safe to use?

MyWDFW integrates 18 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and crash-reporting. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Sensitive Info and 1 more category. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does MyWDFW need?

MyWDFW requests 3 iOS permissions: Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), and Face ID.

What data does MyWDFW collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, MyWDFW collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data, Sensitive Info, and Diagnostics. It collects Location not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does MyWDFW have?

MyWDFW integrates 18 third-party SDKs. 7 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 8 for infrastructure, and 2 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does MyWDFW use Google SDKs?

Yes. MyWDFW includes 13 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Performance, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does MyWDFW access your location?

Yes. MyWDFW requests location access. The developer states: "MyWDFW uses geolocation to automatically detect the GMU you are located in for easy notching".

What are some alternatives to MyWDFW?

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

MyWDFW

Free · ★1.8 · Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

Is MyWDFW safe?

It collects a lot of your data, and shares it with trackers.

Our take. MyWDFW carries 7 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 5 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 117 sportsModerate

Trackers from other companies7 · some

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

MyWDFW links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoIdentifiersUsage DataSensitive InfoDiagnostics

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 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. MyWDFW sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 18 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 7 are third-party trackers.

7analytics

1crash reporting

10standard libraries

7 of the 18 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Standard libraries10 · 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 v1.0.0, 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.