Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 550 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.5.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 1.5.1, updated 2026-10-20.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Airport Empire - Idle Airport Tycoon Game
Welcome to Airport Empire, the ultimate idle airport tycoon experience! If you love management games, business simulators, and idle clickers, it’s time to take control and build your own aviation legacy. Develop world-class terminals, handle massive passenger flows, and expand your transport hub step by step in this deep idle management game.
This airport tycoon is designed for both casual players and hardcore strategy fans. Start small, think big, and become the richest airport manager in the world!
Build and Manage Your Airport Empire
In this idle airport management game, you begin your journey with a tiny airstrip. Your goal is to transform it into a bustling international hub. Every upgrade counts! Invest your earnings wisely to improve your airport operations and infrastructure.
Build Terminals and modern aviation facilities.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: AdColony, Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine and 12 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:fb181f3c5881835b35652f87486be36366c5244975cc4ac4d49f96c3dd8c39b5Aggressive ad load: raised by 60 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 9 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
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
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.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:fb181f3c5881835b35652f87486be36366c5244975cc4ac4d49f96c3dd8c39b5The app's own text says: "Continue as %1$s"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Package artefact
sha256:fb181f3c5881835b35652f87486be36366c5244975cc4ac4d49f96c3dd8c39b5550 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Fun, until it wasn't. Current update slowed progression with forced Ads; done at lvl 545.
ads nothing but ads 😒 🙄 😑 😐 id rather pay then deal with ads... ads is what messes game play for people deleted. no option to pay for ad removal rather... screw this game.
uninstalling after about 5 minutes of game time. too much of the game forcing you to click, then incomes the forced ads, after it seems like you're given full control of the game and don't have to click when and where they want at that…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.5.1, scanned 21 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 1.5.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 1.5.1, updated 2026-10-20.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
- New Sort mini-game with fresh challenges - New Battle Pass season with new rewards - Performance improvements - Bugfixes
No release notes were provided for this version.
No release notes were provided for this version.
No release notes were provided for this version.
airport-empire-2026Assessed 2026-10-30 from 550 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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