Is Pharmacy safe to use?

Pharmacy integrates 15 third-party SDKs spanning analytics and authentication. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Purchases, Financial Info, and Contact Info and 2 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Pharmacy need?

Pharmacy requests 4 iOS permissions: Camera, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), and Bluetooth.

How many SDKs does Pharmacy have?

Pharmacy integrates 15 third-party SDKs. 6 for analytics and 8 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Pharmacy access your location?

Yes. Pharmacy requests location access. The developer states: "This app would like to access your location to determine pharmacies nearest you.".

Does Pharmacy access your camera?

Pharmacy requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "This app would like to access your camera for barcode scanning and taking pictures for prescription transfer". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

What are some alternatives to Pharmacy?

Other medical apps include 1-800 Contacts , DonorHub , Kardia , Ambetter , Ambra , and athenaPatient . Each app takes a different approach to medical and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is Pharmacy safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Pharmacy is built with more third-party tracking code than 76% of the medical we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 82 medicalHeavy

Trackers from other companies6 · a lot

typical medical: 2

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical medical: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Pharmacy links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

Health & FitnessPurchasesFinancial InfoContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiers

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 partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among medical.

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 medical app. Pharmacy sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 15 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 6 are third-party trackers.

6analytics

9standard libraries

6 of the 15 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesanalytics

Adobe Experience Platform · Adobe Identity · Adobe Lifecycle · Adobe Rules Engine · Adobe Services · OneTrust Privacy/Consent

Standard libraries9 · 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 v3.1.13, 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 82 medical in our corpus. Trackers: median 2. Data linked to you: median 5.