Is The Weather safe to use?

The Weather integrates 50 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, advertising, and infrastructure. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Location, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It includes 12 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does The Weather need?

The Weather requests 4 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), and Location (Always & When In Use).

What data does The Weather collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, The Weather declares cross-app tracking via Location, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does The Weather have?

The Weather integrates 50 third-party SDKs. 11 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 14 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 8 for infrastructure, and 11 for other.

Does The Weather use Google SDKs?

Yes. The Weather includes 18 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Google AdMob, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Analytics, Firebase Core, Firebase In-App Messaging, Firebase Performance, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google App Measurement, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, and Google Utilities. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does The Weather use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does The Weather access your location?

Yes. The Weather requests location access. The developer states: "We use your location to show you the local weather.".

Does The Weather run in the background?

Yes. The Weather registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to The Weather?

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.

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Free · ★4.5 · Impala Studios

Is The Weather safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. The Weather is built with more third-party tracking code than 98% of the weather we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 106 weatherHeavy

Trackers from other companies26 · a lot

typical weather: 5

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical weather: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

The Weather links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 11 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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🏢Ad networkAdvertising

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🇮🇱ironSourceAdvertising · Israel

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇺🇸UnityAdvertising

In app advertising from Unity.

SDK

🇺🇸LiftoffAdvertising

In app video advertising network.

SDK

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

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. The Weather 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 India

InMobi is a India company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 50 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 26 are third-party trackers.

11advertising

1attribution

14analytics

1crash reporting

2push & messaging

21standard libraries

26 of the 50 are third-party trackers. 2 are push-notification SDKs that deliver notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Analytics · Firebase Core · Firebase In-App Messaging · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Other third partiesadvertising

Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Digital Turbine (InnerActive) · Open Measurement (PubNative) · CleverTap · Google App Measurement

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude · Amplitude Engagement · Amplitude Session Replay

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

Ad networkAdvertising

Chartboost

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook Audience Network

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

ironSourceAdvertising · Israel

ironSource

UnityAdvertising · USA

Unity Ads

LiftoffAdvertising · USA

Vungle Ads

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Push & messaging2 · notifications

Standard libraries21 · 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 v2.0.16, 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.