NASA integrates 24 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and media. It does not collect data linked to your identity. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does NASA need?

NASA requests 8 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Save to Photo Library, and Bluetooth.

What data does NASA collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, NASA collects Usage Data and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does NASA have?

NASA integrates 24 third-party SDKs. 5 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 11 for infrastructure, and 4 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does NASA use Google SDKs?

Yes. NASA includes 11 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Google API Client, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does NASA access your location?

Yes. NASA requests location access. The developer states: "In order to provide satellite visible pass opportunities for your location, this app requires access to your current location.".

Does NASA access your camera or microphone?

NASA requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "The Augmented Reality (AR) Sky View feature requires access to the camera". Microphone access is for "This app uses the microphone". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does NASA run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to NASA?

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

NASA

Free · ★4.8 · NASA

Is NASA safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. NASA is built with more third-party tracking code than 59% of the education we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 86 educationModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · 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.

NASA'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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

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

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 24 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

5analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

17standard libraries

5 of the 24 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 · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Other third partiesanalytics

Mux Analytics

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries17 · 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 v6.1, 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.