Is ParentSquare safe to use?

ParentSquare integrates 38 third-party SDKs spanning support, infrastructure, and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does ParentSquare need?

ParentSquare requests 7 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Calendars, Face ID, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does ParentSquare collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, ParentSquare collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers. It collects Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does ParentSquare have?

ParentSquare integrates 38 third-party SDKs. 4 for analytics, 18 for customer support, 8 for infrastructure, and 7 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does ParentSquare use Google SDKs?

Yes. ParentSquare includes 9 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase, and FirebaseSessionsObjC. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does ParentSquare access your camera or microphone?

ParentSquare requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Access to the camera is needed to enable you to attach photos to posts and messages". Microphone access is for "Access to the microphone is needed to enable you to record a message for a Smart Alert". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does ParentSquare access your contacts?

Yes. ParentSquare requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Access is needed to enable adding important phone numbers to your contacts.".

Does ParentSquare run in the background?

Yes. ParentSquare registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to ParentSquare?

Other education apps include Nibble , Question.AI , Learna AI , Kiddopia , Deepstash , and SimplyPiano . Each app takes a different approach to education and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Education · Privacy report

ParentSquare

Free · ★4.6 · ParentSquare

Is ParentSquare safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. ParentSquare is built with more third-party tracking code than 52% of the education we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 86 educationModerate

Trackers from other companies4 · some

typical education: 3

Data the app links to you1 type · little

typical education: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

ParentSquare links 1 category of your data to you.

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

Identifiers

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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among education.

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 education app. ParentSquare sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 38 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 4 are third-party trackers.

4analytics

34standard libraries

4 of the 38 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Standard libraries34 · 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 v2.122.2, 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 86 education in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 3.