Is Yestory safe to use?

Yestory integrates 43 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It includes 5 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Yestory need?

Yestory requests 5 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Yestory collect?

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

How many SDKs does Yestory have?

Yestory integrates 43 third-party SDKs. 5 for advertising, 4 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 2 for social integration, 14 for infrastructure, and 10 for other.

Does Yestory use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Yestory includes 4 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, Facebook Login, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Yestory use Google SDKs?

Yes. Yestory includes 13 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase App Check Interop, Firebase Auth, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Google Sign-In, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Yestory use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Yestory access your location?

Yes. Yestory requests location access. The developer states: "Please allow location access for better book recommendations for you".

Does Yestory access your camera?

Yestory requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Allow Camera and Photos Access to take new photos and edit". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Yestory run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Yestory?

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

Book · Privacy report

Yestory - Read Books & Booktok

Free · ★4.9 · Yestory Mobile Development Limited.

Is Yestory safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Yestory is built with more third-party tracking code than 78% of the book we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 82 bookHeavy

Trackers from other companies9 · a lot

typical book: 5

Data the app links to you4 types · some

typical book: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Yestory links 4 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoIdentifiersUsage Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 4 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

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

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. Yestory 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 43 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 9 are third-party trackers.

5advertising

4analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

32standard libraries

9 of the 43 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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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries32 · 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 v2.5.9, 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.