“Horrible App! — I worked for a month to reach level 400 on one of their games! The payout would have been $13.92. Not much at all compared to how long it took me to reach the goal and how many ads I had to watch! But when it came time to…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 534 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★37,422 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
83 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
EarnStar is your platform for earning real money simply and reliably. With EarnStar, receive instant cash rewards by answering surveys. You can turn spare moments into real cash effortlessly, through your mobile device, anytime and anywhere.
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Why EarnStar?
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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 1.0.44 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.0.45, updated 2026-09-29.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 1.0.44, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 1.0.45 · 2026-09-29
- Bug fixes and improvements
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
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 2
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 7 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 534 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.
“No Good — I dont know why it suddenly stops tracking your accomplishments. Then when you contact support they gives you a trashy answers and tells you to try another game. The surveys say you qualify then screen you out after a few…”
“Too many ads — I am having to watch forced ads every 30 seconds to a minute”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.0.45.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.