“Waaaaay too many ads. I understand they keep the app free, but there is still such a thing as overdoing it.”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 491 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
Coloring Book: Color by Number
Candy MobileColoring Book, also known as color by number, paint by number, painting by nu…
4.5 ★229,512 ratings
50M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Coloring Book, also known as color by number, paint by number, painting by number, is the best way to blow your stress away! Discover tons of free coloring pages to create your own artworks now. Relax and happy coloring!
Don’t know much about painting? No worries! Each picture has light blue or gray lines indicate areas to paint, and each area has a number and a corresponding numbered paint to use. Just follow the numbers and coloring has never been easier!
This coloring book allows you to choose from the world most famous paintings including Mona Lisa, Starry Night, The Last Supper and etc. Follow the numbers to bring these famous paintings to transcend time and make history.…
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 3.8.2 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.8.2, 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
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 3.8.2, scanned 2026-09-22.
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
3–9 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 2
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 6 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), InMobi and 2 more
Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video to color this picture for free"
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
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“great game.... way to many ads ,really can't enjoy it with all the ads!”
“This app actually INCREASED my anxiety. You have WAY too many ads, every single person to color in has eurocentric beauty standards (where's the color when you're coloring in white people?) there's no way to turn off the sounds so I can…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.8.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.