Some warnings 1 confirmed warning. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 25 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.4.4.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .
The store currently lists version 1.4.4.0, updated 2026-08-31.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
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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 5 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), InMobi, Meta Audience Network and 1 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:b4eec10d4bbc7fa242ae8b666e4edb8fa684dadb21fe517421f9d8dbce8c06a7Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app's own text says: "Watch the entire video to claim your reward"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:b4eec10d4bbc7fa242ae8b666e4edb8fa684dadb21fe517421f9d8dbce8c06a7The app's own text says: "Unhide your files before uninstalling the app to avoid file loss."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Package artefact
sha256:b4eec10d4bbc7fa242ae8b666e4edb8fa684dadb21fe517421f9d8dbce8c06a7The app's own text says: "The screen layout changes are just to hide apps securely and make the feature work properly. Rest assured, we will never access your private data."
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:b4eec10d4bbc7fa242ae8b666e4edb8fa684dadb21fe517421f9d8dbce8c06a7No review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.4.4.0, scanned 25 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 1.4.4.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .
The store currently lists version 1.4.4.0, updated 2026-08-31.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
app-lock-google-applock-lockapps-fingerprint-password-applockerAssessed 2026-10-25 from 400 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.
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 subscription bills weekly; 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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