Is Boost Mobile safe to use?

Boost Mobile integrates 46 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and authentication. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including User Content, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Boost Mobile need?

Boost Mobile requests 8 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), and Speech Recognition.

What data does Boost Mobile collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Boost Mobile declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including User Content, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects Location and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Boost Mobile have?

Boost Mobile integrates 46 third-party SDKs. 15 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 13 for infrastructure, and 7 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Boost Mobile use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Boost Mobile access your location?

Yes. Boost Mobile requests location access. The developer states: "Please allow Boost Mobile to access your location for optimal service and local deals. ".

Does Boost Mobile access your camera or microphone?

Boost Mobile requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This app requires usage of camera to take profile picture and scan barcodes". Microphone access is for "Please allow microphone access for simplified form completion". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Boost Mobile run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Boost Mobile?

Other utilities apps include 1.1.1.1 , InstaWrite AI , AI Identifier , ExtraSpace , Authenticator , and Authenticator . Each app takes a different approach to utilities and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Utilities · Privacy report

Boost Mobile

Free · ★4.7 · DISH Network LLC

Is Boost Mobile safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Boost Mobile is built with more third-party tracking code than 97% of the utilities we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 112 utilitiesHeavy

Trackers from other companies15 · a lot

typical utilities: 4

Data the app links to you3 types · some

typical utilities: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Boost Mobile links 3 categories of your data to you.

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

User ContentIdentifiersUsage Data

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.

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among utilities.

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 utilitie app. Boost Mobile 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 46 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 15 are third-party trackers.

15analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

29standard libraries

15 of the 46 are third-party trackers. One is a push-notification SDK that delivers 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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Other third partiesanalytics

Adobe Experience Platform · Adobe Identity · Adobe Lifecycle · Adobe Rules Engine · Adobe Services · MoEngage Analytics · MoEngage · Quantum Metric

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries29 · 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 v4.1.10, 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 112 utilities in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.