CartoonApp - Cartoon photo editor is the free photo editor for art filters, c…
Taka Group - Maxlabs Photo EditorSerious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 26 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 40.0.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 40.0.0, updated 2026-10-22.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
CartoonApp - Cartoon photo editor is the free photo editor for art filters, cartoon effects, pictures and photos, sketch styles and artwork on canvas
★ Key Features ★
- Simple and Easy to use Cartoon Picture Converter App.
- Powerful selfie camera Photo Editor app.
- Cartoon Photo editor with different cartoon filters.
- Cartoon photo maker with Cartoon art Filters, pencil art Filters, drawing and color pencil sketch effect.
- Amazing photo art filters, powerful cartoon effects
- Photo painting, photo editing, cartoon animation filters & cartoon photo effects
- Selfie camera for live photo editing and amazing filters.
- Sketch art & Smooth pencil sketch art & Hard pencils sketch art by art filters cartoon photo editor
- Experience the art exhibition of filters, sketches, canvases, printings, cartoons, oil paintings, artsy pictures, effects, photos of Cartoon Me.
- Turn my picture into a…
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.
Bundles 5 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network and 1 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:7fac48a36b9ca044269042639ba5e54adc5a93c3442780fd598fe831dd876975Aggressive ad load: raised by 19 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 21 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
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
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.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app's own text says: "Let get PRO to use all style."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:7fac48a36b9ca044269042639ba5e54adc5a93c3442780fd598fe831dd876975Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Limited Time Offer"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:7fac48a36b9ca044269042639ba5e54adc5a93c3442780fd598fe831dd876975The app's own text says: "Continue for free"
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.
Package artefact
sha256:7fac48a36b9ca044269042639ba5e54adc5a93c3442780fd598fe831dd876975The app's own text says: "If you clear, the cookies and cache from web pages you have visited through TikTok will be cleared from your phone."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:7fac48a36b9ca044269042639ba5e54adc5a93c3442780fd598fe831dd876975400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Too many ads, and I can't download my pics on here.
uninstall in 1 minute. in 1 minute i was served 10 ads 😂 . more like an ads factory
full of ads
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.
Android package 40.0.0, scanned 26 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 40.0.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 40.0.0, updated 2026-10-22.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
cartoon-photo-editor-cartoonmeAssessed 2026-10-26 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, 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 subscription bills weekly; 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.
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