Health Scan: Heart & Sugar

Blood Glucose & Pressure Track

Hong Kong Vivid Limited
App Store rating4.2★5.6K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app $7.99–$79.99
Age4+Store age rating
Size179 MBiPhone download
CategoryHealth & Fitness

What we found

Full report

Some warnings 41 users report ads that misrepresent the app. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 331 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.

Money

  • Free to download · in-app purchases $7.99–$79.99 (6 listed; the App Store shows at most 10). The store doesn’t say how often these bill.
  • If you subscribe through the store, cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.

Pressure and ad claims

From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 1.9.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 1.9.1, updated 2026-10-22.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Health Scan – Smart Health Monitoring & AI Insights

Health Scan is an AI-powered health management app designed to help you track key health indicators, including blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and nutritional intake.…

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

0 published · 2 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

One source only

Misleading advertising: raised by 41 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 8 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

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.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
12.4% of the 331 reviews read.

Usable without an account

One source only

The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.

Sources
The store privacy disclosure
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From the App Store privacy disclosure

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.

Open evidence

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

331 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

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

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Shown, not confirmed

Deceptive Advertising — This company suggests they can provide both heart and sugar monitoring when in fact they only measure heart info. They track your sugar if you add your data to their app from other sources, but this app does not…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-26

Health Scan is a Health SCAM — The Health Scan: Heart & Sugar (blood glucose & pressure track) app that I purchased through the Apple Store on August 9, 2026, is a true disappointment—not only because of your deceptive marketing but also…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-26

Misleading.. it does not take blood sugar!!! — Your ads clearly represented that I could test my blood sugar using the app itself. That was the specific reason I signed up and paid for the subscription. However, after completing the…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-18

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

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and 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
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
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 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
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 27 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 1.9.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 1.9.1, updated 2026-10-22.

Store update history

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

App Store

Version 1.9.1 · 2026-10-22
improve users experience

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
health-scan
Assessment date
27 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
331
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-27 from 331 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 we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-27 Version analyzed: 1.9.13 independent signals331 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot 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
4.24 ★ · 5,588 ratings
Version
1.9.1
Updated
22 Oct 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
4+
Size
179 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Hong Kong Vivid Limited
Category
Health & Fitness
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

Subscriptions5
Health Scan SubscriptionTerm not stated$39.99
Health Scan SubscriptionTerm not stated$19.99
Health Scan SubscriptionTerm not stated$7.99
Health Scan SubscriptionTerm not stated$29.99
Health Scan SubscriptionTerm not stated$49.99
Buy once1
Health Scan LifetimeLifetime$79.99
This list is cut off. Apple shows at most 10 in-app purchases, and this app is at the limit — so it very likely sells more than we can see.

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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