Is RxLocal safe to use?

RxLocal integrates 16 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and messaging. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info and Identifiers. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does RxLocal need?

RxLocal requests 9 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Face ID, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does RxLocal collect?

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

How many SDKs does RxLocal have?

RxLocal integrates 16 third-party SDKs. 4 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 6 for infrastructure, and 3 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does RxLocal use Google SDKs?

Yes. RxLocal includes 10 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does RxLocal access your location?

Yes. RxLocal requests location access. The developer states: "Improve location-based services.".

Does RxLocal access your camera or microphone?

RxLocal requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Allow access to take photos or videos to share in chats". Microphone access is for "Improve communication by sending voice messages to your pharmacist". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does RxLocal access your contacts?

Yes. RxLocal requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Save pharmacy numbers to your contacts.".

Does RxLocal run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to RxLocal?

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.

Medical · Privacy report

RxLocal

Free · ★1.7 · PioneerRx, LLC

Is RxLocal safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. RxLocal is built with more third-party tracking code than 67% of the medical we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 82 medicalModerate

Trackers from other companies4 · some

typical medical: 2

Data the app links to you2 types · little

typical medical: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

RxLocal links 2 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoIdentifiers

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

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 16 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 4 are third-party trackers.

4analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

10standard libraries

4 of the 16 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 Core · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries10 · 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 v6.0.8, 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.