Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 404 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 2.2.0.0g of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 2.2.0.0g, updated 2026-08-19.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Enjoy the #1 virtual bakery game! Design the bakery of your dreams and share with your friends! Impress your customers with stunning decorations and mouth-watering sweets!
- DESIGN and build the perfect, personalized bakery! Stunning variety and unlimited creativity!
- DECORATE with thousands of items, choose tables, chairs, wallpaper, art, and more!
- CUSTOMIZE a menu of delicious treats to make tummies grumble for more!
- SOCIALIZE with other bakeries, and collect bonus tips from players!
- INVITE Facebook friends to set up shop right next door! Share secret recipes!
- Download and play weekly updates with new treats and decorations!
New content is released every week to keep your bakery growing!
Bakery Story is the MOST delicious and BEST looking bakery game for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch!
Please note: Bakery Story is an online game.…
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: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost 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
sha256:08d052218fd51062a225e6d07609a0321ead242ffd2627acf82826275c4ee9fcAggressive ad load: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 45 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.
The app's own text says: "It takes %1$d Gems to complete this item but you only have %2$d. Wanna get some more?"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:08d052218fd51062a225e6d07609a0321ead242ffd2627acf82826275c4ee9fcThe app's own text says: "Thanks for your interest. We will share more once you're back online."
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
sha256:08d052218fd51062a225e6d07609a0321ead242ffd2627acf82826275c4ee9fcSells a randomised reward ("Opening the %s gives you a chance to obtain items you can't find anywhere else!") and states no drop rates or odds anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app sells randomised rewards — crates, chests, packs, pulls — and states no drop rates or odds anywhere in its own text, so what the money buys is unknowable before paying.
Package artefact
sha256:08d052218fd51062a225e6d07609a0321ead242ffd2627acf82826275c4ee9fcThe app's own text says: "Neighbors can visit your bakery and give you tips! To invite friends as your neighbors, type their Storm8 ID."
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
sha256:08d052218fd51062a225e6d07609a0321ead242ffd2627acf82826275c4ee9fc404 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Free gems option is not awarding gems after watching an ad. The ad's timer is completely finished, and the "X" pops up to exit out of the ad. Then it says that the video didn't finish and my gem count doesn't go up. This has happened…
I love this cute bakery game but its so impossible to play with so many ads. The game glitches and bugs alot. It used to be a great game, kinda disappointing.
More ads at random times that did not happen before. This game was a 5+ star to me and many of the changes are great, but the forced ads is stressful.
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 2.2.0.0g, 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 2.2.0.0g of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 2.2.0.0g, updated 2026-08-19.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
* Bug fixes and performance updates * Bundled “all” features * The Design menu is now scrollable * Cashier's desk tab in the Design menu * Drag to place/buy multiple wall decors and floor tiles * MISC
No release notes were provided for this version.
bakery-storyAssessed 2026-10-30 from 404 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.
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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