“RUINED BY ADS!! — It is an ABSOLUTE WASTE OF TIME WATCHING YOUTUBE ANY MORE. YOU ARE HAVING TO WATCH ADS EVERY MINUTE AND LAST LONGER THAN THE ACTUAL VIDEO YOU ARE WATCHING. THIS WILL HAPPEN EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY VIDEO YOU WATCH! I WOULD…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 2,859 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.7 ★5,178,507 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
539 MBApp size
FreeIn-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.
This analysis describes version 441.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 441.5, updated 2026-10-05.
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
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
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 23 distinct reviewers (0.8% of 2859 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (0.3% of 2859 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Way too many ads — I don’t bother to look at the news. You can’t read anything anyway”
“Pop ups — It’s been decades and you still can’t read anything without so many advertisements it’s hardly worth the effort.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 441.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.