beam integrates 6 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, attribution, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Usage Data. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does beam need?

beam requests 8 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), and Save to Photo Library.

What data does beam collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, beam declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Usage Data.

How many SDKs does beam have?

beam integrates 6 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 2 for attribution, and 2 for analytics.

Does beam use Facebook tracking?

Yes. beam 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 beam use Google SDKs?

Yes. beam includes 2 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Analytics and Google App Measurement. These are primarily used for analytics and cloud services.

Does beam use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does beam access your location?

Yes. beam requests location access. The developer states: "We need your location to provide accurate UV index data and personalized sun protection recommendations for your area.".

Does beam access your camera or microphone?

beam requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Camera access is required to scan and detect the skin tone color". Microphone access is for "Microphone access is required to access video mode to scan and detect the skin tone color". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does beam run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to beam?

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.

Weather · Privacy report

Beam Tanning - Get Tan Fast

Free · ★4.7 · Titano Digital Teknoloji Limited Şirketi

Is beam safe?

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

Our take. beam carries 6 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 1 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 106 weatherModerate

Trackers from other companies6 · some

typical weather: 5

Data the app links to you1 type · some

typical weather: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

beam links 1 category of your data to you.

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

Usage 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.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

🇺🇸SingularAttribution

Marketing attribution and analytics.

SDK

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDK

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

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. beam 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 Israel

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

The evidence

What it's built from.

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

2advertising

2attribution

2analytics

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

Show the full SDK list

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

SingularAttribution · USA

Singular

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Other third partiesanalytics

Google App Measurement

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 v1.25.6, 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.