“I hate it. do\nNot even think about downloading this app.This is disguised as malware.One time I installed it, and I thought it was just a cute kid's game.I just wanted to play something😔 and it started giving me pop up ads and I decided…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 550 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-07.
4.6 ★68,421 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Welcome to Candy Race Launcher- Your new Android home screen!
Candy Race is a fast-paced and colorful racing adventure where you compete to reach the finish line first! Collect rewards, unlock exciting new levels, and prove you have what it takes to become the ultimate candy champion! 🍭🍫
This home screen app includes multiple customization features like Themed Backgrounds that brings the game’s style straight to your home screen; Cool Gestures that make navigation quicker and more direct: Swipes, taps, and double taps can be assigned to open specific apps, trigger shortcuts, or perform common actions, reducing the need to move through menus.
To access these features, press and hold an empty area of your home screen to open the launcher menu.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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 1.0.3 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-07 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.0.3, updated 2026-06-03.
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 at least 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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 1.0.3, scanned 2026-09-14.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 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
1–2 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
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
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
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 20 distinct reviewers (3.6% of 550 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“horrible, took over many other apps on my phone. even made it to where I couldn't open other apps without seeing ads. gotta be malware”
“bad use of internet hang many times ads are too much”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.0.3.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.