Is BOSS Rev safe to use?

BOSS Rev integrates 95 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, media, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Location, and Contact Info and 5 more categories. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does BOSS Rev need?

BOSS Rev requests 10 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Face ID, Save to Photo Library, and Siri.

What data does BOSS Rev collect?

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

How many SDKs does BOSS Rev have?

BOSS Rev integrates 95 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 2 for attribution, 10 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 2 for payments, 26 for infrastructure, and 33 for other.

Does BOSS Rev use Google SDKs?

Yes. BOSS Rev includes 16 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase App Check Interop, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Performance, 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, Google Utilities, and FirebaseAppCheck. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does BOSS Rev use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does BOSS Rev access your location?

Yes. BOSS Rev requests location access. The developer states: "No reason provided".

Does BOSS Rev access your camera or microphone?

BOSS Rev requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer does not provide a reason for either. These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does BOSS Rev access your contacts?

Yes. BOSS Rev requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "No reason provided".

Does BOSS Rev run in the background?

Yes. BOSS Rev registers 5 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to BOSS Rev?

Other social networking apps include Yik Yak , 3F , AM , Backbone , BeReal. , and BiP . Each app takes a different approach to social networking and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is BOSS Rev safe?

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

Our take. BOSS Rev carries 13 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 9 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 97 social networkingHeavy

Trackers from other companies13 · a lot

typical social networking: 4

Data the app links to you9 types · a lot

typical social networking: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

BOSS Rev links 9 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesFinancial InfoLocationContact InfoContactsUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

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

🇺🇸KochavaAttribution

Marketing attribution and audience data.

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

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

SDKs

🇺🇸AppLovinAdvertising

A mobile advertising and monetization network.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among social networking.

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 social networking app. BOSS Rev 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 95 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 14 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

2attribution

10analytics

1crash reporting

2push & messaging

78standard libraries

14 of the 95 are third-party trackers. 2 are push-notification SDKs that deliver notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. 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 Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

KochavaAttribution · USA

Kochava (Flutter) · Kochava Apple Tracking (Flutter)

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude · Amplitude (Flutter)

AppLovinAdvertising · USA

AppLovin

Push & messaging2 · notifications

Standard libraries78 · 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 v26.3.1, 2026-04-03.

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 97 social networking in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.