“The game is fun until it's not. eventually you max out upgrades to Stella's house and the star cats retreat. So stardust is mostly useless but it'll still be the dominant reward vs "spells" for challenges. you'll need to watch MANY ads…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 440 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Bubble Witch 3 Saga
KingBubble Witch 3 Saga – A magical bubble shooting puzzle game from the makers o…
4.7 ★2,697,846 ratings
100M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Bubble Witch 3 Saga – A magical bubble shooting puzzle game from the makers of Candy Crush Saga.
Stella the Witch is back and she needs your help to defeat Wilbur in this exciting puzzle matching adventure! Wilbur may look cute, but he's full of magical mischief! Travel the realm popping as many bubbles as you can in this bubble shooting puzzle game.
Help Stella the Witch restore peace to the realm by matching bubbles! With the magical aiming line blast and pop bubbles with precision! In this explosive bubble shooting adventure, solve the puzzles to reunite the ghosts, pop the bubbles to save the owls, and shoot to free the fairies and rescue their Queen. Cast spells and power up with Nero to blast your way through increasingly challenging matching puzzle levels and keep up with Wilbur!…
Preview
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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 10.19.0.0 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 10.19.0.0, updated 2026-09-18.
What we measured
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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 10.19.0.0, scanned 2026-09-26.
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
3 or more 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
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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 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 9 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 440 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I doubt if you will make my review public . Your game is a fun way to waste time however I do not like it when you force me to play on teams . I like to play alone and at my own pace and it is unfair to the people you force me to play…”
“Why is it every time I come close to winning, they tell me my phone has no internet connection, then I can't watch ads to get extra plays. My internet has an excellent connection. Sometimes I wonder how honest this game really is.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 10.19.0.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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