Is BestNovel safe to use?

BestNovel integrates 71 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 Contact Info. It includes 7 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does BestNovel need?

BestNovel requests 3 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, and Photo Library.

What data does BestNovel collect?

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

How many SDKs does BestNovel have?

BestNovel integrates 71 third-party SDKs. 6 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 5 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 19 for infrastructure, and 35 for other.

Does BestNovel use Facebook tracking?

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

Does BestNovel use Google SDKs?

Yes. BestNovel includes 12 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase App Check Interop, Firebase Dynamic Links, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Google Utilities, and FirebaseAppCheck. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does BestNovel use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does BestNovel access your camera?

BestNovel requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Allow access to your camera for uploading your profile photo". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does BestNovel run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to BestNovel?

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 BestNovel safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. BestNovel is built with more third-party tracking code than 85% of the book we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from India.

Privacy footprint · vs 82 bookHeavy

Trackers from other companies12 · a lot

typical book: 5

Data the app links to you1 type · some

typical book: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

BestNovel links 1 category of your data to you.

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

Contact Info

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 5 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 partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

🇮🇳InMobiAdvertising · India

A mobile advertising network.

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. BestNovel sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

Two more flags.

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.

It sends analytics to a company in India

InMobi is a India company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 71 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 12 are third-party trackers.

6advertising

1attribution

5analytics

1crash reporting

58standard libraries

12 of the 71 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

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

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit · Sensors Analytics

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

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 v2.0.9, 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.