“Just no — I’ll rate this a 5 star once you get ads back I can’t pay every single penny of mine JUST for anime. Otherwise, 1 star is staying. 🙄”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 831 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.8 ★1,505,098 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
255 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
WATCH THE MOST POPULAR AND TOP-RATED ANIME ANYTIME, ANYWHERE Stream new episodes, classic favorites, and anime movies with the Crunchyroll app. Whether you love action-packed anime, heartwarming slice-of-life stories, or fantasy adventures, Crunchyroll offers the largest anime collection online, featuring a massive library of anime shows and movies available on your favorite device. Watch anime ad-free and in high quality—all in one place.
EXCLUSIVE MUSIC VIDEOS AND CONCERTS Get access to thousands of music videos, concert exclusives, and special performances from top artists worldwide. Watch unique behind-the-scenes footage, live performances, and carefully curated playlists that bring anime soundtracks and J-pop sensations to your screen.…
Preview
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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.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.120.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.120.0, updated 2026-10-01.
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
3 or more 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
80–89% 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.
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 (0.6% of 831 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 6 distinct reviewers (0.7% of 831 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Price keeps rising
The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.
What we saw: Price keeps rising: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 831 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Why — Anything even remotely new is locked behind premium even when they don’t show as being premium. At this point why even claim free.”
“EVERYTHING IS PREMIUM? — So I just downloaded this app and I'm MAD because every single anime I'm looking at right now is PREMIUM?? SO I CAN'T WATCH ONE ANIME AT ALL IN THIS APP??? can you PLEASE FIX THIS because this pisses me off”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.120.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.