Is ReadAnywhere safe to use?

ReadAnywhere integrates 45 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and storage. It does not collect data linked to your identity. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does ReadAnywhere need?

ReadAnywhere requests 1 iOS permission: Photo Library.

What data does ReadAnywhere collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, ReadAnywhere collects Usage Data and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does ReadAnywhere have?

ReadAnywhere integrates 45 third-party SDKs. 7 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 18 for infrastructure, and 16 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does ReadAnywhere use Google SDKs?

Yes. ReadAnywhere includes 12 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, 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 ReadAnywhere run in the background?

Yes. ReadAnywhere registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to ReadAnywhere?

Other book apps include Noel Novel , Freewave , AnyStories , FanFiction Reader Pro , Audible , and BookPlayer . Each app takes a different approach to book and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Book · Privacy report

ReadAnywhere

Free · ★4.6 · McGraw-Hill

Is ReadAnywhere safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. ReadAnywhere is built with more third-party tracking code than 57% of the book we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 82 bookModerate

Trackers from other companies7 · some

typical book: 5

Data the app links to you0 types · little

typical book: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

It links almost nothing to you.

ReadAnywhere'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 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

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among book.

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 book app. ReadAnywhere sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 45 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 7 are third-party trackers.

7analytics

1crash reporting

37standard libraries

7 of the 45 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 Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Other third partiesanalytics

New Relic

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 v4.2.1, 2026-04-04.

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 82 book in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 3.