Is SpeedAce safe to use?

SpeedAce integrates 19 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and advertising. It does not collect data linked to your identity. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does SpeedAce need?

SpeedAce requests 11 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Motion & Fitness, HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), and Apple Music.

What data does SpeedAce collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, SpeedAce collects Location, User Content, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does SpeedAce have?

SpeedAce integrates 19 third-party SDKs. 3 for advertising, 4 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 8 for infrastructure, and 2 for other.

Does SpeedAce use Facebook tracking?

Yes. SpeedAce 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 SpeedAce use Google SDKs?

Yes. SpeedAce includes 9 Google or Firebase SDKs: 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 SpeedAce access your location?

Yes. SpeedAce requests location access. The developer states: "The application needs to locate the current location information to display the current movement trajectory".

Does SpeedAce access your camera or microphone?

SpeedAce requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Call the camera to measure distance". Microphone access is for "The app requires microphone permission for speech recognition". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does SpeedAce access your contacts?

Yes. SpeedAce requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "The app needs access to your contacts in order to share information".

Does SpeedAce run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to SpeedAce?

Other navigation apps include ABRP , 高德地图 , Shell , SpotAngels , Avenza Maps , and 10-4 by WEX . Each app takes a different approach to navigation and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Navigation · Privacy report

GPS Speedometer HUD - SpeedAce

Free · ★4.6 · Changsha Liangchao Technology Co., Ltd.

Is SpeedAce safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. SpeedAce is built with more third-party tracking code than 69% of the navigation we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 89 navigationModerate

Trackers from other companies7 · some

typical navigation: 3

Data the app links to you0 types · little

typical navigation: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

SpeedAce's own App Store privacy label declares it links no data to your identity. That is rare, and it is a good sign.

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 3 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

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among navigation.

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 navigation app. SpeedAce sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 19 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 7 are third-party trackers.

3advertising

4analytics

1crash reporting

11standard libraries

7 of the 19 are third-party trackers. 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

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit

Standard libraries11 · 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 v1.4.6, 2026-04-03.

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 89 navigation in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 4.