Is Dipsea safe to use?

Dipsea integrates 8 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, analytics, and support. It does not collect data linked to your identity. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Dipsea need?

Dipsea requests 7 iOS permissions: Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Motion & Fitness, Speech Recognition, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Apple Music.

What data does Dipsea collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Dipsea collects Purchases, Location, Contact Info, User Content, Search History, Identifiers, Usage Data, Sensitive Info, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Dipsea have?

Dipsea integrates 8 third-party SDKs. 4 for advertising, 1 for analytics, 1 for customer support, 1 for social integration, and 1 for infrastructure.

Does Dipsea use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Dipsea 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 Dipsea access your location?

Yes. Dipsea requests location access. The developer states: "Dipsea location use.".

Does Dipsea run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Dipsea?

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.

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Is Dipsea safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Dipsea is built with more third-party tracking code than 45% of the book we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 82 bookModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · 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.

Dipsea'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.

🇺🇸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 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. Dipsea sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 8 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

4advertising

1analytics

3standard libraries

5 of the 8 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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MetaAdvertising · USA

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

Other third partiesanalytics

Appstack Analytics

Standard libraries3 · 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 v5.0.9, 2026-04-05.

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.