Is BeenVerified safe to use?

BeenVerified integrates 73 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and storage. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Contact Info, User Content, and Search History and 4 more categories. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does BeenVerified need?

BeenVerified requests 6 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), and Location (Always & When In Use).

How many SDKs does BeenVerified have?

BeenVerified integrates 73 third-party SDKs. 3 for advertising, 9 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for payments, 29 for infrastructure, and 20 for other.

Does BeenVerified use Facebook tracking?

Yes. BeenVerified 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 BeenVerified access your location?

Yes. BeenVerified requests location access. The developer states: "Your current location is used to help you locate addresses around you, as well as to enhance your reports.".

Does BeenVerified access your camera or microphone?

BeenVerified requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "The camera is used to allow you to scan text for faster input when performing a vehicle search". Microphone access is for "The application does not use this feature". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does BeenVerified access your contacts?

Yes. BeenVerified requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Allow you to create contacts based on information displayed in a report.".

Does BeenVerified run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to BeenVerified?

Other reference apps include Abide , Acorn , Aim High US Air Force , Translate AI , Curio , and Athkar . Each app takes a different approach to reference and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Reference · Privacy report

BeenVerified: People Search

Free · ★4.6 · BeenVerified, Inc.

Is BeenVerified safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. BeenVerified is built with more third-party tracking code than 93% of the reference we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 101 referenceHeavy

Trackers from other companies12 · a lot

typical reference: 4

Data the app links to you8 types · some

typical reference: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

BeenVerified links 8 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesContact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther Data

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 partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among reference.

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 reference app. BeenVerified sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 73 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 12 are third-party trackers.

3advertising

9analytics

1crash reporting

2push & messaging

58standard libraries

12 of the 73 are third-party trackers. 2 are push-notification SDKs that deliver notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. 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 In-App Messaging · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook Audience Network · Facebook SDK

Other third partiesanalytics

OneTrust Privacy/Consent

Push & messaging2 · notifications

Standard libraries58 · 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 v9.1.27, 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 101 reference in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.