Is WTForecast safe to use?

WTForecast integrates 37 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics and 1 more category. It includes 6 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does WTForecast need?

WTForecast requests 10 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Motion & Fitness, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Peripheral.

What data does WTForecast collect?

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

How many SDKs does WTForecast have?

WTForecast integrates 37 third-party SDKs. 6 for advertising, 6 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 9 for infrastructure, and 14 for other.

Does WTForecast use Facebook tracking?

Yes. WTForecast 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 WTForecast use Google SDKs?

Yes. WTForecast 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 WTForecast use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does WTForecast access your location?

Yes. WTForecast requests location access. The developer states: "Please click Allow While Using App so that What The Forecast?!! can bring you the latest weather for your area.".

Does WTForecast access your camera?

WTForecast requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "This feature requires using the camera". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does WTForecast run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to WTForecast?

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.

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Is WTForecast safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. WTForecast is built with more third-party tracking code than 94% of the weather we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 106 weatherHeavy

Trackers from other companies12 · a lot

typical weather: 5

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical weather: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

WTForecast links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 5 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 partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

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

Other signals

Two more flags.

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.

It sends analytics to a company in India

InMobi is a India company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 37 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 12 are third-party trackers.

6advertising

6analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

23standard libraries

12 of the 37 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 partiesadvertising

Open Measurement (PubNative) · Taboola

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries23 · 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 v3.94.7, 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.