BAYAM: GAMES, STORIES, PODCASTS, AND VIDEOS FOR CHILDREN AGED 3 TO 12 Create…
BAYARD SASome warnings 1 confirmed warning. Checked: 61 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 8.1.26 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 8.1.26, updated 2026-10-16.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
BAYAM: GAMES, STORIES, PODCASTS, AND VIDEOS FOR CHILDREN AGED 3 TO 12
Created by Bayard Jeunesse, the leading publisher of children's magazines for over 50 years, BayaM is the safe and fun educational app where children aged 3 to 12 can play, read, watch, listen, and create with complete confidence.
A colorful, welcoming, and 100% ad-free space designed to nurture their curiosity, imagination, and creativity, without endless scrolling or algorithms.
Audio stories, ebooks, music, educational games, cartoons, podcasts, tutorials, and DIY creative activities: everything is here for intelligent fun at home, in the car, or while traveling.
Why not give BayaM as a gift? The perfect present for curious kids!
A FUN AND EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM FOR CHILDREN, REASSURING FOR PARENTS
Developed by Bayard's youth experts, BayaM helps families use screens responsibly and in a balanced way.…
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.
Paywall is server-configured and A/B tested via Purchasely — the offer shown can differ per user
The app ships a remote paywall-experimentation SDK, so the offer shown is configured server-side and may differ per user — including from anything we or a reviewer saw.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:7428d0e2efb06641daffb64b768e3df897e8b30a335befabe491c711b4d63919Specific 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: "You can skip ad in %1$d…"
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
sha256:7428d0e2efb06641daffb64b768e3df897e8b30a335befabe491c711b4d63919The app's own text says: "Go to amazon.com. Check if you’re signed in to the correct Amazon Account. Go to your Account page. Click on Other Subscriptions in the Memberships and subscriptions section Select the subscription you want to can…
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
sha256:7428d0e2efb06641daffb64b768e3df897e8b30a335befabe491c711b4d63919Offers a trial ("Grace period") and states no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:7428d0e2efb06641daffb64b768e3df897e8b30a335befabe491c711b4d63919No 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 8.1.26, scanned 30 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 8.1.26 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 8.1.26, updated 2026-10-16.
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.
bayamAssessed 2026-10-30 from 61 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.
Write to [email protected], or use the form. Name the finding, the app version and the evidence that needs correcting. Factual corrections are free and never depend on buying anything.