Is Weather Radar safe to use?

Weather Radar integrates 28 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Contact Info. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Contact Info, and Identifiers. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Weather Radar need?

Weather Radar requests 7 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Location (When In Use), Speech Recognition, Save to Photo Library, and Siri.

What data does Weather Radar collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Weather Radar declares cross-app tracking via Contact Info. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Contact Info, and Identifiers. It collects Location, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Weather Radar have?

Weather Radar integrates 28 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 7 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 8 for infrastructure, and 7 for other.

Does Weather Radar use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Weather Radar includes 2 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM and Facebook SDK. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Weather Radar use Google SDKs?

Yes. Weather Radar includes 13 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, 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 Weather Radar use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Weather Radar access your location?

Yes. Weather Radar requests location access. The developer states: "Hi-Def Radar delivers weather data for exactly where you are. Choose "Allow" so the app can find your location.".

Does Weather Radar access your camera or microphone?

Weather Radar requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Hi-Def Radar uses your camera to share pictures of the forecast in your area". Microphone access is for "This app needs microphone access". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Weather Radar run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Weather Radar?

Other weather apps include 13abc Weather , Drive Weather , 4WarnMe , AirVisual , Alpenglow , and Acme Weather . Each app takes a different approach to weather and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Weather · Privacy report

Weather Hi-Def Radar Forecast

Free · ★4.6 · Maple Media Apps, LLC

Is Weather Radar safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Weather Radar is built with more third-party tracking code than 75% of the weather we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 106 weatherHeavy

Trackers from other companies9 · a lot

typical weather: 5

Data the app links to you3 types · some

typical weather: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Weather Radar links 3 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesContact InfoIdentifiers

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 3 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

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among weather.

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 weather app. Weather Radar 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.

2advertising

7analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

17standard 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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GoogleAnalytics · USA

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

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

Other third partiesanalytics

OneTrust Privacy/Consent

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 v4.6.0, 2026-04-05.

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 106 weather in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 1.