“This app seems to be more about making people pay money to advance rather than the quality of the photos. The turbo feature is just a gimmick where you lose far more often than you win followed by a message suggesting you use coins to pay…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 406 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
GuruShots: Photo Game
GuruShots Ltd.GuruShots is a photography community with over 7 million photography enthusia…
4.1 ★48,651 ratings
5M+Downloads
12+Age rating
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Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
GuruShots is a photography community with over 7 million photography enthusiasts from around the world, dedicated to taking your photos to the next level.
Engage in photography competitions and earn rewards as you discover incredible photos from the world’s most talented photographers, including mobile creatives, hobbyists, and professionals. The top 5 photos each month will be displayed on our Connected TVs, located in retail store environments around the US, reaching millions of viewers.
The GuruShots photography app makes your photography experience more exciting and rewarding. Enjoy fun and challenging gameplay within a community of photographers who constantly share new photos. Inspire and be inspired, learn photography, develop your style, and improve your creativity.
Why choose the GuruShots photo app?…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 5.53.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.53.0, updated 2026-06-15.
What we measured
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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
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
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.
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: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (2.7% of 406 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“It's cool but has some major flaws the voting system being the first you deffenitely have to spend a bit of money to win the bigger challenges I see top photos that are mediocre at best and some really good ones dead last. makes 0 sense I…”
“No way to play without paying. The dev team responds people that they can join the challenges for fee if they are early enough, but that's not happening at all. This app used to be great, now it is only pay to win. The way to win is to…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.53.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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