“Another predatory app. Advertises itself as free but everything is locked behind premium, pop-ups, and other junk. I appreciate you need to cover costs but if the experience for new users is this poor why would anyone pay?”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 960 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★221,295 ratings
10M+Downloads
17+Age rating
142 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Join the world’s largest treasure-hunting community with the official app for geocaching. Whether you are off to find your first geocache or your ten-thousandth, this app is your ultimate geocaching toolbox.
There are millions of clever containers called geocaches hidden in almost every country on Earth, just waiting to be found—there are probably even some near you right now. Just getting started? This app walks you through the adventure of finding your first few geocaches.…
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.
App Store
This analysis describes version 10.20.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 10.20.0, updated 2026-09-21.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 10.19.0 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 10.20.0, updated 2026-09-18.
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
Says 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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 10.19.0, scanned 2026-09-27.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 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
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.
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 1
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 4 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: AppLovin MAX, Chartboost, ironSource / Unity LevelPlay, Unity Ads
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: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 504 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“pretty much everything is locked behind a paywall. You're better off using the website which actually has more features than the app. very disappointing to come back and see the app in this state after so many years”
“this app used to be free but now it wants to charge $6.99 a month to even see any of the caches.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 10.20.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$5.99
Highest$39.99
Monthly Premium Membership$5.99
Monthly Premium membership$6.99
3-month membership$9.99
Annual Premium Membership$29.99
Annual Premium membership$39.99
Show 5 more purchases
1-year membership$29.99
10 Shareables Yearly Subscription$14.99
5 Shareables Yearly Subscription$11.99
2 Shareables Yearly Subscription$9.99
10 Shareables Yearly Subscription$17.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.