Is La Crosse View safe to use?

La Crosse View integrates 4 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, media, and infrastructure. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does La Crosse View need?

La Crosse View requests 9 iOS permissions: Camera, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Local Network.

What data does La Crosse View collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, La Crosse View collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, Usage Data, and Diagnostics. It collects Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does La Crosse View have?

La Crosse View integrates 4 third-party SDKs. 2 for analytics and 1 for infrastructure. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does La Crosse View use Google SDKs?

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

Does La Crosse View access your location?

Yes. La Crosse View requests location access. The developer states: "This app needs to access your Precise Location while using the app to complete the WiFi setup of your Sensor or Display.".

Does La Crosse View access your camera?

La Crosse View requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "The camera is used to scan barcodes or take photos for location background images". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does La Crosse View run in the background?

Yes. La Crosse View registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to La Crosse View?

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

La Crosse View

Free · ★4.1 · La Crosse Technology

Is La Crosse View safe?

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

Our take. La Crosse View carries 2 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 4 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 companies2 · some

typical weather: 5

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical weather: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

La Crosse View links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 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.

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. La Crosse View sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 4 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

2analytics

2standard libraries

2 of the 4 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 Analytics

Other third partiesanalytics

Google App Measurement

Standard libraries2 · 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 v1.90.4, 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.