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Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 467 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.

Cars.com: Buy and sell cars

Cars.com

Shopping for a new or used car or truck?

4.7 ★211,702 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

Shopping for a new or used car or truck? Download the free Cars.com app and start exploring every possible car for every possible you. With millions of vehicle listings, over 10 million dealership reviews, and the technology to get personalized offers to sell your current car and finance your next one — the next step in your journey starts here.

EXPLORE MILLIONS OF CAR LISTINGS Search millions of new, used, and certified pre-owned cars for sale. Shop the possibilities of SUVs, pickup trucks, minivans, sedans, EVs, and more. Get tailored recommendations in your area based on your search preferences.

FIND THE ONE WITH ADVANCED SEARCH Narrow your search by price, mileage, year, exterior and interior color, features, fuel type, body style, and more to find the exact right vehicle for you.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

8 screenshots
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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.

Automated analysis in progress

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

This analysis describes version 9.66.1 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 26.19.0, updated 2026-09-22.

What we measured

Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.

How these are measured

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
No 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 9.66.1, scanned 2026-09-25.

Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 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
1–2 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.

Methodology

Positive evidence 1

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
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.

In the app's own text: Trial terms not stated in the app's own text
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is the app's own on-screen text.artefact 438fb2c33cdf…
The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
What we saw: Offers a free trial ("Start your free listing") with no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 26.19.0.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Business modelFree

Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.