“Honest reaction — Honestly it’s goid ok I really like it I use it almost every night but later on when u have the app for a long time more and more sounds become where u have to pay for premium ir what ever and I think it’s kinda dumb bc…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 50 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★390,788 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
319 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
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Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 26.17 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 26.17, updated 2026-09-22.
What we measured
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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: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (24.0% of 50 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Pay to Use — I’ve been using this app since around 2018-2019ish when it used to be called Relax Melodies, it used to be good, a lot of variety but they still had their little vip sounds which is okay but then they got greedy and started…”
“They ruined it. — Everything in it you have to pay for now. It’s crazy having this app for 3 years and now im deleting it because all you guys did was make it pay to use. Sad excuse adding less than 10 sounds to even mix with why allow us…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 26.17.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.