Is Car Weather safe to use?

Car Weather integrates 39 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and advertising. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. However, it reports that no collected data is linked to your identity. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Car Weather need?

Car Weather requests 6 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Microphone, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), and Speech Recognition.

What data does Car Weather collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Car Weather declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects Location, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Car Weather have?

Car Weather integrates 39 third-party SDKs. 4 for advertising, 6 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 2 for payments, 1 for social integration, 12 for infrastructure, and 5 for other.

Does Car Weather use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Car Weather includes 5 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, Facebook Gaming Services, Facebook Login, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Car Weather use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. Car 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 Car Weather access your location?

Yes. Car Weather requests location access. The developer states: "Location is needed for obtaining weather data in your area".

Does Car Weather access your camera or microphone?

Car Weather requests access to your microphone. The developer says this is for "Your microphone will be used to record your speech when you press the "Start Recording" button". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Car Weather run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Car 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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Is Car Weather safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Car Weather is built with more third-party tracking code than 82% of the weather we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 106 weatherHeavy

Trackers from other companies10 · a lot

typical weather: 5

Data the app links to you0 types · some

typical weather: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Car Weather links 0 categories of your data to you.

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

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.

SDKs

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

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. Car Weather sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

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.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 39 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 10 are third-party trackers.

4advertising

6analytics

1crash reporting

28standard libraries

10 of the 39 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 A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Gaming Services · Facebook Login

Standard libraries28 · 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 v2.7.24, 2026-04-01.

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.