“Difficult to Cancel Subscription — For whatever reason, FT will not cancel my subscription. I don't want the subscription anymore. I thought I cancelled it months ago, but they renewed it anyways even though their payment processor…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 753 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★74,334 ratings
1M+Downloads
12+Age rating
95 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
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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.
App Store
This analysis describes version 1.116 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.116, updated 2026-09-30.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2.300.0-snapshot.0.24777896888101.13015+8fb9049 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.300.0-snapshot.0.24777896888101.13015+8fb9049, updated 2026-09-28.
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 at least 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.
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 4.99 to USD 719.00 — a 144x spread across 7 items
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
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.
What we saw: 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
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 333 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Does not work well in China and Thialand — FT won’t provide support either. Worse one can’t cancel a subscription . One must protest against credit card. May as well subscribe to Barrons.”
“Cannot cancel subscription — The burgers charged me $69 after the first cheap trial month even though I did cancel the subscription. But the app does not have any settings for managing subscription. No way to cancel it. Never mind the…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.116.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown6
Lowest$4.99
Highest$719.00
Premium Digital$75.00
Standard Digital$45.00
FT Edit$4.99
Standard Digital$429.00
Premium Digital$719.00
Show 1 more purchase
FT Edit$49.00
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.