Emoji Maker- Personal Animated

Emoji Maker is a unique sticker making application software Firstly, Emoji M…

Animoji Phone X & Emoji Maker Develop Team
Google Play rating3.6★58.3K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age17+Store age rating
CategoryPhoto & Video

What we found

Full report

Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews and the Android app’s code.

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From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 3.6.5.406 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 3.6.5.406, updated 2024-02-04.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Emoji Maker is a unique sticker making application software

Firstly, Emoji Maker's current community has great sharing features!

🌟The ingenious process of making your favorite personal stickers and sharing them is at your fingertips!Through Emoji Maker, you can make your own unique animated stickers and static stickers. Including but not limited to emoji, the content of stickers is more diverse, such as fox, pig, dog, cat, chicken, monkey, panda animated emoticons.🌟

Supported Animated Emojis and Stickers

Secondly, Emoji Maker supports animation effects for signal private messenger, and also supports the use of a variety of instant messaging software like WhatsApp. Emoji Maker can not only meet your production needs, but also help you achieve cross-platform use, dissemination and sharing.…

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

3 published · 4 shown, not confirmed

Things to watch for 2

Findings that met the published evidence standard.

Multiple ad networks bundled

Measured

Bundles 6 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network and 2 more

Sources
SDKs in the app package
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package
Definition

The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:bfec3f3f45e3fd20b327fb8e8456c04887a33446e66a39206c423decb896809c

Aggressive ad load

2 independent sources agree

Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video to earn a reward!"

Sources
User reviews and the app's own on-screen text
Agreement
2 independent kinds of source agree.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package. From Google Play reviews
Definition

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

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:bfec3f3f45e3fd20b327fb8e8456c04887a33446e66a39206c423decb896809c

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 app's own on-screen text and the store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package. 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 4

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Works offline

One source only

The app's own text says: "View the ad you saved when you were offline"

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

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.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:bfec3f3f45e3fd20b327fb8e8456c04887a33446e66a39206c423decb896809c

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

The app's own text says: "You have run out of 9 random emojis for today."

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:bfec3f3f45e3fd20b327fb8e8456c04887a33446e66a39206c423decb896809c

Trial terms not stated in the app's own text

One source only

Offers a trial ("Become a VIP to get more benefits!") and states no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:bfec3f3f45e3fd20b327fb8e8456c04887a33446e66a39206c423decb896809c

Usable without an account

One source only

The app's own text says: "Not you?"

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

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.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:bfec3f3f45e3fd20b327fb8e8456c04887a33446e66a39206c423decb896809c

What reviewers report

400 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

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

Aggressive ad load

Published finding

This app was great and didn't let me disappointed! It includes many cool assesories and other stuffs. The reason I give 4 stars is because It has a lot of ads. I thought I closed my WiFi or hotspot might stop them but I don't know how…

4★ · Google Play · 2022-06-09

I have a love-hate relationship with this app. I like certain things you can do, but I have 3 pet peeves. One, the ads are ridiculous. They appear when you first open the app, when you click to create a new emoji, and when you've finished…

3★ · Google Play · 2023-03-01

So much ads in this app. After one click you will see an ad of 30 seconds nd you can't skip that. And not a variety of choice available in this app. Only some basic smiles are there😣

1★ · Google Play · 2022-11-12

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

Measurements

8 measured · 0 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

Android package 3.6.5.406, scanned 27 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.

Sensitive permissions
1–2 requested
Counted against a fixed list of eighteen sensitive Android permissions: sixteen runtime permissions, among them location, camera, microphone, contacts and SMS, and two the user must switch on in system settings, drawing over other apps and usage access. Requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
3–9 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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 27 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 3.6.5.406 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 3.6.5.406, updated 2024-02-04.

Store update history

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

Google Play

Version 3.6.5.406 · 2024-02-04

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
emoji-maker-personal-animated
Assessment date
27 Oct 2026
Sources used
4 independent signals: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest
Reviews read
400
Package examined
Android · 3.6.5.406 · scanned 27 Oct 2026
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-27 from 400 user reviews and the app's package.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-27 Version analyzed: 3.6.5.4064 independent signals400 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest. Not yet checked: the store listing 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
3.56 ★ · 58,338 ratings
Version
3.6.5.406
Updated
4 Feb 2024
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
17+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Animoji Phone X & Emoji Maker Develop Team
Category
Photo & Video
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — 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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