Is Novelmates safe to use?

Novelmates integrates 42 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers and Diagnostics. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers and Diagnostics. It includes 7 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Novelmates need?

Novelmates requests 4 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Photo Library, and Calendars.

What data does Novelmates collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Novelmates declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers and Diagnostics. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does Novelmates have?

Novelmates integrates 42 third-party SDKs. 7 for advertising, 1 for analytics, 1 for social integration, 17 for infrastructure, and 11 for other.

Does Novelmates use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Novelmates includes 3 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, and Facebook Login. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Novelmates use Google SDKs?

Yes. Novelmates includes 5 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Core, Google Sign-In, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Novelmates use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Novelmates access your camera?

Novelmates requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "For help feedback, authorize to capture screenshots/footage directly—to help fix your issues accurately. Grant access". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Novelmates run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Novelmates?

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

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Is Novelmates safe?

It collects a lot of your data, and shares it with trackers.

Our take. Novelmates carries 8 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 2 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 82 bookModerate

Trackers from other companies8 · some

typical book: 5

Data the app links to you2 types · some

typical book: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Novelmates links 2 categories of your data to you.

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

IdentifiersDiagnostics

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.

🇺🇸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

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

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. Novelmates 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 42 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 8 are third-party trackers.

7advertising

1analytics

34standard libraries

8 of the 42 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

Other third partiesadvertising

Moloco Ads · Snap Kit

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

InMobiAdvertising · India

InMobi

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Core

Standard libraries34 · 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 v12.24.0, 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.