Is Golfshot safe to use?

Golfshot integrates 56 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Financial Info, Location, and Contact Info and 2 more categories. It includes 10 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Golfshot need?

Golfshot requests 15 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Motion & Fitness, HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Siri.

What data does Golfshot collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Golfshot declares cross-app tracking via Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Golfshot have?

Golfshot integrates 56 third-party SDKs. 10 for advertising, 8 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 2 for payments, 6 for customer support, 11 for infrastructure, and 17 for other.

Does Golfshot use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Golfshot includes 3 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, and Facebook Login. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Golfshot use Google SDKs?

Yes. Golfshot includes 13 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Performance, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Golfshot use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Golfshot access your location?

Yes. Golfshot requests location access. The developer states: "Golfshot uses your location data to give you real-time tracking distances and more.".

Does Golfshot access your camera?

Golfshot requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Golfshot lets you add profile pictures, pictures from your round, and more". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Golfshot access your contacts?

Yes. Golfshot requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Golfshot uses your contacts data to enable you to share scorecards and to make it easier to add golfers to rounds.".

Does Golfshot run in the background?

Yes. Golfshot registers 4 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Golfshot?

Other sports apps include 18Birdies , 365Scores , Action , Alt , Arccos , and MLB . Each app takes a different approach to sports and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Sports · Privacy report

Golfshot Golf GPS Range Finder

Free · ★4.8 · Golf Genius Mobile, LLC

Is Golfshot safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Golfshot is built with more third-party tracking code than 97% of the sports we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 117 sportsHeavy

Trackers from other companies18 · a lot

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Golfshot links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

Health & FitnessFinancial InfoLocationContact InfoIdentifiersUsage Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 6 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

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

SDK

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among sports.

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 sport app. Golfshot 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 56 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 18 are third-party trackers.

10advertising

8analytics

1crash reporting

37standard libraries

18 of the 56 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 A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Other third partiesadvertising

Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Open Measurement (Ogury) · Open Measurement (PubMatic) · Open Measurement (PubNative) · OpenWrap (PubMatic)

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Mixpanel

Standard libraries37 · 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 v4.78, 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 117 sports in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.