Is Scanémon safe to use?

Scanémon integrates 1 third-party SDK for attribution. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Scanémon need?

Scanémon requests 2 iOS permissions: Camera and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Scanémon collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Scanémon collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does Scanémon have?

Scanémon integrates 1 third-party SDK. It is AppsFlyer, used for attribution. None are for analytics.

Does Scanémon access your camera?

Scanémon requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Camera access is needed to scan and identify Pokémon cards". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Scanémon run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Scanémon?

Other reference apps include Abide , Acorn , Aim High US Air Force , Translate AI , Curio , and Athkar . Each app takes a different approach to reference and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Reference · Privacy report

Scanémon: Pokemon Card Scanner

Free · ★4.5 · Open Brace

Is Scanémon safe?

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

Our take. Scanémon carries 1 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 4 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 101 referenceModerate

Trackers from other companies1 · some

typical reference: 4

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical reference: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Scanémon links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

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.

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among reference.

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 reference app. Scanémon sits to the lower left, lighter 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 sends analytics to a company in Israel

AppsFlyer is a Israel company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 1 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 1 are third-party trackers.

1attribution

1 of the 1 is a third-party tracker. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Standard libraries0 · 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 v2.0.1, 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 101 reference in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.