“To much adds — THERE IS TO MUCH ADDS 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 514 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.3 ★42,436 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
1962 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Explore dozens of art, coloring, and educational activities with Crayola Create and Play, the official Crayola app for curious kids to learn through fun, creative play! Discover interactive digital learning experiences built in collaboration with experts from the world-famous Smithsonian Institution, where curiosity and exploration is brought to life! Get unlimited access with your 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
*5 STARS PARENT-TESTED PARENT APPROVED APP* *GOOD PLAY GUIDE APPROVED* *EDUCATIONAL APP STORE CERTIFIED* *ACADEMICS CHOICE AWARD WINNER*
SPARK IMAGINATION WITH ART, COLORING & DRAWING ACTIVITIES • Explore unlimited coloring pages for your little artist • Create pixel art unicorns, dogs, cats, dinosaurs, and pets • Spark bright ideas with glow art • Craft and customize dinosaurs, rocket ships, and other 3D designs…
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 2.61.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.62.0, updated 2026-09-30.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2.61.0, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 2.62.0 · 2026-09-30
Trick-or-treat your way through a new Halloween Quest! Hatch brand-new monster pets, create glowing masterpieces with new Glow Art pages, carve pumpkins, dress up your pets in silly costumes, and discover even more spooky surprises along the way!
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
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes 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
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
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.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 2.99 to USD 79.99 — a 27x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
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 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 514 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (2.1% of 514 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
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.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Worst game ever no ads, yes ads — This game keeps on making so many ads that I can’t even concentrate on playing. I can’t even unlock many games and it’s forcing me to pay money. What should I do? Worst game ever in the whole trip instead…”
“There are too many ads — There are so many ants like I tried to play it one time and there’s like a trillionaire on it. It’s so fun. It’s so much fun, but there’s way too many accidents a problem like every single time I do one thing and…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.62.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.