Some warnings 1 confirmed warning, and users report 4 more things. Checked: 2,178 reviews, 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 2026.13.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 2026.13.0, updated 2026-10-13.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Explore, imagine, create & play in Bluey's house. There's so much to do!
Wackadoo! Come join Bluey, her friends & family! For real life.
Fun, easy & calm kids learning game for boys and girls of all ages. Preschool children and toddlers will enjoy this app. Parents and other family members can play along too!
EXPLORE
Discover and play all over the Heeler family home, just like in the TV show! Hunt for longdogs, play a game of Pop up Croc, listen to your favorite Bluey tunes, and so much more! Can you find all the hidden surprises?
IMAGINE
Every room allows for deep, imaginative play. Just like Bluey, anything is possible if you use your imagination! Make up your own stories as you go, or re-create your favorite Bluey moments. Bingo, Bandit, Chili, and all of Bluey’s friends and family are here and ready to join the fun.…
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 blocks the basics: raised by 78 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 28 reviews we read)
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 272 reviews we read)
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.
Hard to cancel: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 272 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Pay to progress: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 363 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Price keeps rising: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 168 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.
Reviewers report clear pricing: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 363 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
The store privacy disclosure (4 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
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.
2,178 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Raised by 78 distinct reviewers — about 1 in 28 reviews we read on this store leg (App Store).
I hate it — This would be the best game ever, but you have to pay for like everything and I don’t got money like that. People aren’t made of money so I recommend you not to buy this unless you wanna pay.
So expensive — This is a game for children and even then your trying to get money from people my neice was so excited to play since it’s her favourite show just for her to see that everything is locked behind a monthly subscription thats…
Bluey — I love it I just wish you didn’t have to pay to get everything
🤓 — It’s a really fun game if you have a subscription so I don’t like that you have to pay for a lot of stuff cause I get boring after like 15 or 20 minutes of playing the game but once I got the subscription and the game was really fun…
Trash — It won’t let me cancel it and it keeps charging me 15$ for the rest of my life
Can’t cancel — They make it impossible to cancel or not renew!
Impossible to cancel — Do not purchase
P2w — Full pay to play game
This episode of bluey is called — Pay to win
Subscription is not great — Great game but they just increased the subscription to 9.99 a month. That’s getting close to a streaming subscription.
This is the meme I’m using to describe you: your trash kid — One two places is boring yo are just bottom feeders who want money you acting like Mr krabs from SpongeBob one star worst game ever and only two characters you are the worst I…
Price Increases!?!?! — So they already lock down parents at $6.99 to make the app worth having, and now they are increasing to $9.99?!?!?!?!?? NOT OK with that. This isn’t a “premium” app that is worth $6.99, but I was willing to do it. I…
Too expensive — Love the game but it’s very frustrating for my kid because we cannot afford to pay another subscription. I hate that everything is a subscription now. I have a much older game from this same company that was a one-time…
Child loves the game, but I hate the subscription — Child loves the game, but now the subscription is up over $11 with taxes, and I’m not paying that much a month. Why not just let everyone buy the game the way it currently is at a one…
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.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 2026.13.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 2026.13.0, updated 2026-10-13.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Happy Heelerween with Bluey! Celebrate Halloween with Bluey and her family! Grow and carve pumpkins, dress up in spooky costumes, and so much more!
Appworthy
bluey-apple-1669091583Assessed 2026-10-30 from 2,178 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
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. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, 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.