Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 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 10.9.3-0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 10.9.3-0, updated 2026-10-06.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Why Use Audials?
• 40,000 U.S. stations sorted by state and genre
• A total of 110,000 radio stations in MP3 and AAC format, and 1,900,000 podcasts, sorted by country and genre
• Record entire programs and individual songs
• On Air: See what’s currently playing, even before tuning in
• Find radios that play your favorite artist right now
• Loads of useful extras: Chromecast, clock radio, sleep timer, equalizer, ...
110,000 Radios and 1,900,000 Podcasts From AL to WY and around the world: 106.7 LITE FM, 181.FM, ABC, The Beat LA, Beatles Radio, Black Gospel Network, Radio Caraibes, Christian Pirate Radio, Fresh FM, Hard Radio, The JOY, KEXP 90.3, KIIS 102.7, Kiss FM, KNKX, KOST 103.5, KTU, Now FM, Onda Cero, Undergroundradio, VirtualDJ, Vision 2000, WAQX, WCBS-FM, WPLJ, WUCF 89.9, Z-100 - Audials knows them all.…
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 3 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network, Pangle (ByteDance)
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:14df7748cfbca9a0ae349cfaf1a39cf3ec460c8b42a0b2cc2c3aad8338a097b7Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video ad to unlock this download"
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:14df7748cfbca9a0ae349cfaf1a39cf3ec460c8b42a0b2cc2c3aad8338a097b7Specific 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
sha256:14df7748cfbca9a0ae349cfaf1a39cf3ec460c8b42a0b2cc2c3aad8338a097b7The app's own text says: "Creating multiple alarms is a premium feature."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:14df7748cfbca9a0ae349cfaf1a39cf3ec460c8b42a0b2cc2c3aad8338a097b7The 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
sha256:14df7748cfbca9a0ae349cfaf1a39cf3ec460c8b42a0b2cc2c3aad8338a097b7The app's own text says: "Downloaded podcasts"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:14df7748cfbca9a0ae349cfaf1a39cf3ec460c8b42a0b2cc2c3aad8338a097b7400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
No longer fit for purpose. Not content with spamming full screen adverts within the app, they've now started injecting even more spam into the audio feeds. This isn't the broadcaster, as they claim, because it doesn't happen with Radio…
went from great to sucks. the app used to play music. Now it's ad after ad after ad after ad after ad after ad after ad... are you pissed off yet? Also if you set to record and choose ads they play and then you can't get out of them to…
It was bad enough when they started showing full screen, unskippable adverts in the app, but now they have started injecting them into the audio streams as well. I have a few Android devices and Google accounts and will be uninstalling…
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 10.9.3-0, scanned 28 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 10.9.3-0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 10.9.3-0, updated 2026-10-06.
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.
audials-play-google-com-audialsAssessed 2026-10-30 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 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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