Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 1,069 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 31 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 0.2.5 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 0.2.5, updated 2026-09-11.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Global Domination – Ball-Style
The world is divided, and it's up to you to redraw the map. Step into the round shoes of your favorite Countryball and embark on the ultimate mission: conquer and unify all 195 countries. Whether through brute force or slick diplomacy, it's time to roll your way to victory.
Income Per Second – Build Your Power
In Countryballs: Power Protocol, time is literally money. Your income grows every second. Upgrade your industries, boost trade, and manage global assets to fuel your expansion. The more countries you control, the more your economy explodes. Smart decisions lead to total domination.
War or Influence – You Decide
There’s more than one way to rule the world:
Conquer with Force
Train cartoony armies, deploy tanks, jets, submarines, and missile systems—and when diplomacy fails, drop the nukes.…
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 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 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
sha256:98a1025326da80531230e7a32a211fca68f2deb0bfb228911ac98697bf21b58dAggressive ad load: raised by 243 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 4 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:98a1025326da80531230e7a32a211fca68f2deb0bfb228911ac98697bf21b58dThe app's own text says: "Open ad when you're back online."
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
sha256:98a1025326da80531230e7a32a211fca68f2deb0bfb228911ac98697bf21b58d1,069 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Way to many damn ads every 2 minutes and ad pops up. awful experience.
so many ads other than that pretty good fun
STOP WITH THE NON STOP 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 0.2.5, scanned 29 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 0.2.5 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 0.2.5, updated 2026-09-11.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
- Minor fixes
No release notes were provided for this version.
countryballsAssessed 2026-10-31 from 1,069 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.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
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 recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; 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.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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