“Used to be great! Ads ruined it. — Be real initially, had a great start despite the bugs or glitches. It was a great app the great concept, but then they got greedy and started implementing ads. Some of which you have to dismiss and now…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 577 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.8 ★1,158,881 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
334 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
BeReal is the simplest photo-sharing app where you and your friends post once a day to show what you’re really up to.
Every day at a random time, everyone gets the same two-minute window to take and share a photo. The camera snaps both the front and back simultaneously, capturing the real moment. No filters — just real life, as it happens.
You won’t find influencers here. You’ll find your friends making coffee, walking to class, lying on the floor, laughing at nothing, or stuck in traffic. It’s not about looking perfect. It’s about being present and staying connected in a way that’s honest, unfiltered, and sometimes unintentionally hilarious.
Post on time or post late—it still counts. Comment, react with your face using RealMojis, or just scroll through your circle’s day.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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 4.95.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.95.0, updated 2026-10-05.
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
80–89% 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
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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 14 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 577 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Ads are so annoying: I hate Chevy and Walmart — I continue to be so frustrated with the ads on BeReal. I feel a versal annoyance and borderline hate toward Chevy, Walmart, Facebook, and American Eagle because I have to see the same stupid…”
“Ads ruin everything — Just opened the app to a fullscreen unavoidable ad. Worst app design of any age and any time. Not even instagram is that bold to shove an ad in the users face like that. It would be embarrassing to recommend this app…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.95.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.