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Groovepad - Music & Beat Maker

Make & mix beats on a DJ pad!

Easybrain Ltd
Aggressive ads — Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
App Store rating4.8★518.5K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size234 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperEasybrain Ltd

At a glance

Full report

From our automated analysis, 5 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 1.24.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.24.0, updated 2026-09-10.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Become a DJ with Groovepad! Bring your musical dreams to life by creating groovy, smooth-sounding music easily!

Groovepad is an easy-to-use music maker app that is guaranteed to bring out the artist in you. Some of its exceptional features include:

- An extensive library of unique and eccentric soundtracks, where you can search and pick your favorites to get started. Some of the popular genres include Hip-hop, EDM, House, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Trap, Electronic, and more;

- Beat School. Try the lessons for each sound pack to improvise freely;

- Live Loops to create first-rate music that lets you fit all the sounds together with perfection;

- Amazing FX effects such as filter, flanger, reverb, and delay, with which you can put life back into the party, just through your music;

- Share your creations and let your friends and family be inspired and impressed by your DJing talents.…

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

1 published · 0 shown, not confirmed

Things to watch for 1

Findings that met the published evidence standard.

Aggressive ad load

Reported by 57 users

Aggressive ad load: raised by 57 distinct reviewers (11.1% of 512 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
User reports only. Published because the review evidence cleared this label’s own reviewer threshold.
Where measured
From App Store reviews
Reported by
Raised by 57 distinct reviewers — 11.1% of the 512 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Published threshold
27 reviewers and 2.12% of at least 500 reviews
Definition

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

Open evidence

What reviewers report

512 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

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

Aggressive ad load

Published finding

Raised by 57 distinct reviewers — 11.1% of the 512 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).

A lot of ads — I like the game but I hate when every time you click the button there is a ad

4★ · App Store · 2026-09-20

too many ads😭✌️ — I wish there wasn’t as many ads so that I could just play but like every time I wanna change something and that comes up and it’s like a whole minute or something

3★ · App Store · 2026-08-27

Adds — Too many adds

4★ · App Store · 2026-08-16

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

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, 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
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 app 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, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 5 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 1.24.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.24.0, updated 2026-09-10.

Store update history

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

App Store

Version 1.24.0 · 2026-09-10
- Performance and stability improvements. If you have any questions or ideas, feel free to contact us via the Support section. We will be happy to help. Be a music & beat maker with Groovepad!

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
groovepad-apple-1454398991
Assessment date
5 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
512
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-05 from 512 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-05 Version analyzed: 1.24.03 independent signals512 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.77 ★ · 518,499 ratings
Version
1.24.0
Updated
10 Sep 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
234 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Easybrain Ltd
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — 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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