“some to most is now locked behind a paywall; some of the things you used to access through for free now has a price”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 977 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.7 ★217,677 ratings
1M+Downloads
12+Age rating
183 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Airbuds is a widget for best friends to share their listening activity.
You and your friends can see what each other are listening to right on your home screens. You can react to songs, play music on the app, and start a conversation.
Every Sunday you will receive a recap of your music to share with friends or to your socials.
It makes you feel closer to your friends through the music they’re listening to in real time, and to yourself-- authentically sharing your music back to them.
HOW IT WORKS: 1. Sign up with Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, SoundCloud, Audiomack or Deezer and add the widget to your home screen 2. See what your friends are listening to 3. React to songs, play music on the app, and start a convo. 4. Check your Weekly Recap every Sunday.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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 1.18.12 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.18.12, updated 2026-09-21.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2.4.11 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.4.11, updated 2026-09-21.
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 fewer than 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
1 theme 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
80–89% 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
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
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.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 0.99 to USD 34.99 — a 35x spread across 5 items
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 1
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: 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: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 553 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“was amazing until it became a premium service. I had high hopes for the platform, so it's very disappointing. I understand that they need to turn a profit but I just wish it wasnt by gatekeeping old features behind a paywall :(”
“used to be such a good app when it first came out but now they have all the good features locked behind a pay wall”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.18.12.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown5
Lowest$0.99
Highest$34.99
Airbuds Star Weekly$0.99
Airbuds Plus$34.99
Airbuds Plus$3.99
Airbuds Plus$29.99
Airbuds Plus$2.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.