“I enjoy the game but like many others, there are so many ads it's ruining the experience for me. If you exit the settings menu, there's an ad. if you choose not to watch an ad to continue when you die, you're still hit with an ad. There…”
Independent automated assessment · 4 signal sources · 553 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.1 ★43,535 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
🎉 Classic "Big Fish Eat Little Fish" is back! 🎉
🎮 Experience the traditional gameplay with a fresh twist. Dive into this oceanic adventure now! 🌊
🐠 Start small as a tiny fish in the vast ocean. To survive, you must constantly feed and grow, unlocking incredible abilities to devour various marine creatures and rise to become the apex ocean predator! 🦈
🐠 Each ocean is teeming with unique marine life. Every fish species comes with its own special skills, making every encounter exciting! 🐳 From fierce sharks and playful dolphins to chill sea turtles, stunning seahorses, and clever octopuses... Over 100 different species are available for you! 🐙
🌀 Hidden within mysterious whirlpools, you’ll even find ancient creatures waiting to be discovered! 🦐…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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 1.1.36 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.1.36, updated 2026-08-24.
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
2 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
65–79% 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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 1.1.36, scanned 2026-09-25.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
3 or more found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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.
The catch list 2
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 14 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 10 more
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: Raised by 105 distinct reviewers — 19.0% of the 553 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).
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 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: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 20 distinct reviewers (3.6% of 553 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“concept is good but unfortunately, leveling up is so out of sync with the AIs, the amount of forced adds are insane, rounds don't last long due to the AIs leveling so you're forced to watch adds every 30secs and the only thing you can do…”
“The game is fun, but unfair balancing and excessive ads ruin the experience. Reaching a high score spawns overpowered fish double your level, and watching an ad to revive is useless because enemies hunt you down to kill you the moment you…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.1.36.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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