“Ads ruining the whole app — I’ve always loved scrolling through buzzfeed articles but their ad placements are so very annoying. They make it so you accidentally click on them constantly. I get needing ad revenue, but come on. I shouldn’t…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 501 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★233,642 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
118 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
BuzzFeed is the place for celebrity buzz, trivia, quizzes, shopping, games, and trending news that matters!
The BuzzFeed app has it all: • Catch up on pop culture, trending entertainment and celebrity news • Read the funniest and wildest tweets and stories from across the Internet • Shop smarter with our Shopping recommendations to buy gifts for friends — or yourself! • Play word, trivia, and AI games in our Games Tab • Test your trivia knowledge or take a quiz that reveals something about you in the Quiz tab…
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 2026.16 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.16, updated 2026-09-22.
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
Says 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 16 distinct reviewers (3.2% of 501 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“…. — I used to love doing quizzes. I've been using the site for four years, but now it's full of ads and the site is super slow. It even kicks me out of the app. You should prioritize the user experience and stop overloading the page with…”
“BuzzFeed+ — Absolutely absurd. No one is paying to read your content. Take the revenue from the 8,000 ads per listicle and let it go.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.16.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown2
Lowest$3.99
Highest$39.99
BuzzFeed+ Yearly$39.99
BuzzFeed+$3.99