“this game is really good! I recommended playing it though there is a lot of ads but I got addicted so much that on endless mode, I made it to 64CR!”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 452 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Ball Run 2048: merge number
KAYAC Inc.This is a ball game where you have to make the numbers on the balls bigger.
4.1 ★260,021 ratings
100M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
This is a ball game where you have to make the numbers on the balls bigger.
Control the balls with your finger to make them merge with other balls of the same number! Each time the balls are combined, they get bigger and change color. The number on the ball starts from 2, when it merges with a ball of the same number, the numbers are added and grows up to a maximum of 2048. Even children can complete the game, but it is very difficult to reach the goal at 2048.
Control the balls so it does not fall off the course or hit obstacles and try to reach 2048! Can you make a rainbow-colored 2048 ball?…
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 0.9.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 0.9.0, updated 2026-09-19.
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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 0.9.0, scanned 2026-09-18.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
None requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
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.
What we saw: 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
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
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: Aggressive ad load: raised by 29 distinct reviewers (6.4% of 452 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: 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
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I'm giving this game 3 stars because, it's not even an online game, why should we turn on internet connection, just to be ragebaited by adds, fix this by allowing users to play it offline, or reduce the fricking pop up ads”
“Guys there is too much things to explain. 1. this game gets laggy during the first level like who would want to rate this five star 2. there are ads every single level and i get nothing after these ads 3. evryone who has loved this game…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 0.9.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.