“Latest upgrade has forced Ad’s which are introducing Spam onto my computer — AOL has been inserting Ad’s between emails, but you could delete them. Now with the latest upgrade you cannot delete them and some of the ad’s are loaded with…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 549 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★706,574 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
160 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
From the latest headlines to fast-loading email, the AOL app brings it all together on your mobile device.
Stay on top of today’s top stories on a variety of topics from politics and finance to celebrity news. Turn on alerts for breaking news, important emails, and weather updates to help you stay informed and connected. Plus, check your AOL Mail, send messages, and access all of your AOL and phone contacts directly from the app.
Email • Manage your AOL Mail from anywhere • Access all of your AOL and phone contacts in a single location • Quickly swipe to delete, move, mark, or flag emails • Customize the left and right swipe gestures to assign specific actions you use the most • Tap once to empty all trash and spam • Enable Touch ID or Face ID for added security…
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.
This analysis describes version 8.0.6 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.0.6, updated 2026-09-25.
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
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
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.
The catch list 1
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.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 37 distinct reviewers — 6.7% of the 549 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Terrible — Too many ads”
“Too many ads — I do not like having to accept all the ads that are very hard, if not impossible, to get rid of. I’m paying for a service that totally annoys me!”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.0.6.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.