Doki Doki: Literature Club+

Enter DDLC, a story-driven visual novel where poetry, friendship, and difficu…

VITLAS LTD
Google Play rating2.5★233 ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
CategoryGames
DeveloperVITLAS LTD

What we found

Full report

Some warnings 19 users report an aggressive ad load. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 107 reviews and the store listing.

Money

  • Free to download.

Ads

From our automated analysis, 26 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 2.0.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .

The store currently lists version 2.0.0, updated 2026-10-03.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Enter DDLC, a story-driven visual novel where poetry, friendship, and difficult choices pull you into the Literature Club. Write poems, connect with club members, and discover how quickly a cheerful school story can change.

Meet the Doki , Doki Literature Club

Spend each school day with a memorable cast:

- Sayori, a cheerful childhood friend who values happiness above everything

- Natsuki, a confident manga fan with a softer side

- Yuri, a quiet book lover drawn to deep and mysterious stories

- Monika, the president who wants to make the club special

Every day in DDLC brings new conversations, poem choices, character moments, and story decisions. Choose words for your poems, learn what each club member likes, and follow the visual novel at your own pace.

Features…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

1 published · 1 shown, not confirmed

Positives 1

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

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

Sources
The store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
From the Google Play listing
Definition

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 evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 1

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Aggressive ad load

One source only

Aggressive ad load: raised by 19 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 6 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
17.8% of the 107 reviews read.

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

107 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

107 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Aggressive ad load

Shown, not confirmed

fun. but problems. glitches too many ads kicks you out can't customize anything. once you pick something it stays stuck. girl

1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-12

many ads but fun,havent played the whole game,get back to you soon xx!

3★ · Google Play · 2026-10-04

it's super buggy and laggy. it's not as good as I thought it'd be but it could be worse. the music wouldn't play so I had to watch a couple ads before getting to turn the music on, then when I started playing, the characters weren't…

2★ · Google Play · 2026-10-17

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
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
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app 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, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 26 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 2.0.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .

The store currently lists version 2.0.0, updated 2026-10-03.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 2.0.0 · 2026-10-03

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
doki-doki
Assessment date
26 Oct 2026
Sources used
2 independent signals: user reviews and the store listing
Reviews read
107
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-26 from 107 user reviews and the store listing. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-26 Version analyzed: 2.0.02 independent signals107 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews and the store listing. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest and the store privacy disclosure.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating
2.55 ★ · 233 ratings
Version
2.0.0
Updated
3 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
VITLAS LTD
Category
Games
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Two independent signals are read — user reviews and the store listing — 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.

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.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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