Is FaxFree safe to use?

FaxFree integrates 31 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and authentication. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, and User Content and 4 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does FaxFree need?

FaxFree requests 6 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Calendars, and Face ID.

What data does FaxFree collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, FaxFree declares cross-app tracking via Purchases, Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data.

How many SDKs does FaxFree have?

FaxFree integrates 31 third-party SDKs. 8 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for payments, 11 for infrastructure, and 5 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does FaxFree use Google SDKs?

Yes. FaxFree includes 15 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase App Check Interop, Firebase Auth, Firebase Auth Interop, 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 FaxFree use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does FaxFree access your location?

Yes. FaxFree requests location access. The developer states: "Advertisement wants to use Location".

Does FaxFree access your camera?

FaxFree requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Allow access to Camera in order to create scans". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does FaxFree run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to FaxFree?

Other business apps include Acrobat , ADP Mobile , Google Ads , isolved , Printer App , and Amazon . Each app takes a different approach to business and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Business · Privacy report

FaxFree: Send Fax From iPhone

Free · ★4.8 · BPMobile

Is FaxFree safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. FaxFree is built with more third-party tracking code than 83% of the business we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 115 businessHeavy

Trackers from other companies8 · a lot

typical business: 3

Data the app links to you8 types · some

typical business: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

FaxFree links 8 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesLocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther 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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among business.

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 busines app. FaxFree 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 31 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 8 are third-party trackers.

8analytics

1crash reporting

22standard libraries

8 of the 31 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

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

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude

Standard libraries22 · 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 v3.30, 2026-04-01.

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 115 business in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 5.