Is Nike Run Club safe to use?

Nike Run Club integrates 28 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Purchases, Financial Info, and Location and 6 more categories. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Nike Run Club need?

Nike Run Club requests 14 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Calendars, Motion & Fitness, HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), Save to Photo Library, Siri, and Apple Music.

What data does Nike Run Club collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Nike Run Club declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Purchases, Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data.

How many SDKs does Nike Run Club have?

Nike Run Club integrates 28 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 8 for analytics, 3 for infrastructure, and 13 for other.

Does Nike Run Club use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. Nike Run Club requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does Nike Run Club access your location?

Yes. Nike Run Club requests location access. The developer states: "This allows us to use your location to provide you certain features like tracking your runs more accurately, keeping you in the loop about Nike events and exclusive product releases, and allowing you to tag your location.".

Does Nike Run Club access your camera or microphone?

Nike Run Club requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Allow access to your camera to take photos you can customize and share alongside your activities". Microphone access is for "Allow access to the microphone to record cheers and send to your contacts". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Nike Run Club access your contacts?

Yes. Nike Run Club requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "This allows you to find and invite friends to Nike from your Contacts. Nike Running only sends emails from your Contacts to our servers to help you connect with other Nike members. None of your Contacts information is stored.".

Does Nike Run Club run in the background?

Yes. Nike Run Club registers 4 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Nike Run Club?

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

Nike Run Club: Running Coach

Free · ★4.8 · Nike, Inc

Is Nike Run Club safe?

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

Our take. Nike Run Club carries 9 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 10 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 109 health & fitnessHeavy

Trackers from other companies9 · a lot

typical health & fitness: 6

Data the app links to you10 types · a lot

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

What it collects about you

Nike Run Club links 10 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Nike Run Club ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

Health & FitnessPurchasesFinancial InfoLocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther 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 partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

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. Nike Run Club sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

Each is a fact read straight from the app. The same checks run on every app we scan. Only the ones that apply here are shown.

It declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 28 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 9 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

8analytics

1push & messaging

18standard libraries

9 of the 28 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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Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit · Adobe Analytics · Adobe Experience Platform · Adobe Identity · Adobe Lifecycle · Adobe Rules Engine · Adobe Services · New Relic · Optimizely

Push & messaging1 · notifications

AirshipKit

Standard libraries18 · 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 v7.76.0, 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.