Is Aetna Health safe to use?

Aetna Health integrates 13 third-party SDKs for analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Financial Info, Location, and Contact Info and 7 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Aetna Health need?

Aetna Health requests 9 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Speech Recognition, Face ID, and Bluetooth.

How many SDKs does Aetna Health have?

Aetna Health integrates 13 third-party SDKs. 5 for analytics and 8 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Aetna Health access your location?

Yes. Aetna Health requests location access. The developer states: "This will allow us to find the best Doctors, Urgent Care Centers, and Hospitals near you.".

Does Aetna Health access your camera or microphone?

Aetna Health requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This lets you take pictures for claims, video for virtual consultations and more". Microphone access is for "Allow access to continue". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Aetna Health run in the background?

Yes. Aetna Health registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Aetna Health?

Other health & fitness apps include 75 Days Challenge , 75 Hard , Calo , AllTrails , MenuFit , and BetterHelp . Each app takes a different approach to health & fitness and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Health & Fitness · Privacy report

Aetna Health

Free · ★4.7 · Aetna Inc.

Is Aetna Health safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares Aetna Health links 11 categories of your data to your identity, including health & fitness, financial info, location and contact info. That collection, more than any outside tracker, is the story here.

Privacy footprint · vs 109 health & fitnessHeavy

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical health & fitness: 6

Data the app links to you11 types · a lot

typical health & fitness: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Aetna Health links 11 categories of your data to you.

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

Health & FitnessFinancial InfoLocationContact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataSensitive InfoDiagnosticsOther Data

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 partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among health & fitness.

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 health & fitnes app. Aetna Health sits high on the left: it collects a lot itself but uses few outside trackers.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 13 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

5analytics

8standard libraries

5 of the 13 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 partiesanalytics

Medallia Digital · New Relic · Quantum Metric

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze · Braze UI

Standard libraries8 · 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 v7.51.0, 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 109 health & fitness in our corpus. Trackers: median 6. Data linked to you: median 5.