“I absolutely love this app, but… — Don’t get me wrong you have to purchase almost every single thing on this app. Do more free stuff AirBrush. I have not found another app like this. Keep up the great work but like I said, do some free…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 2,139 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.2 ★1,787,207 ratings
100M+Downloads
12+Age rating
501 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Master Your Selfie Game with Airbrush – The Ultimate Photo and Video Editor! With our easy-to-use features, you can master your selfie and photo with tools designed to enhance your natural beauty while maintaining authentic charm.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 8.17.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.17.0, updated 2026-09-26.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 8.17.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.17.0, updated 2026-09-23.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 8.17.0, scanned 2026-10-06.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
3–9 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 3
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 8 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network and 4 more
Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch ad to use 1 time for FREE"
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Raised by 46 distinct reviewers — 2.8% of the 1,650 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 20 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 1650 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.4% of 1650 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: Countdown-timer purchase pressure
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
What we saw: Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Offer ends today"
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“updated please read.....I thought I was getting a free trial, but it charged my card and I can't get refunded. PLEASE refund my account..... I have continued to reply to your emails and you still have not refunded my money. I have given…”
“I used this app for years, every time I got a new phone I made sure to download Airbrush. But now everything is paid!! I'm so disappointed, time to find a new app.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.17.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$6.99
Highest$54.99
1 week of perfect photos$7.99
1 month of perfect photos$10.99
1 month of perfect photos$6.99
1 month of perfect photos$7.99
1 year of perfect photos$28.99
Show 5 more purchases
1 year of perfect photos$54.99
1 year of perfect photos$54.99
Edit perfect photos instantly$43.99
Edit perfect photos instantly$35.00
Edit perfect photos instantly$43.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.