“this is for children so it should be free it is asking for an in-app purchase not only that only 4 are free and the rest of the things are money 🫤😮💨 this not nice i use to play this game when I was little and not like this everything…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 495 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★736,453 ratings
100M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Budge Studios™ presents Hello Kitty® Nail Salon! Help Hello Kitty create supercute manicures, and work your way up to superstar nail designer status. Test your skills with challenges or explore your creativity in Free Style!
FEATURES • Choose from different nail shapes, polish colors, patterns and backgrounds • Add cute nail art stickers, gems and Sanrio characters such as Hello Kitty, Badtz-Maru, Chococat, Keroppi, Little Twin Stars, My Melody and Tuxedosam • Apply manicures on a photo of your hand or a friend’s hand • Design unique manicures with nail art in Free Style • Put your matching skills to the test by copying a manicure in Match This • Earn cute stars and new nail designer levels • Save and share your nail designs from the album • Tablet compatible…
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 2025.3.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2025.3.1, updated 2025-10-02.
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
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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 2025.3.1, scanned 2026-09-18.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 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
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None 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.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
No advertising SDKs
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 2 SDKs detected in the package
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 15 distinct reviewers (3.0% of 495 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I used to like this game despite it being a bit glitchy. recently tried to play again and almost everything is locked behind a $10 paywall now. Definitely not worth it for the price, as the game is fun but very very simple and basic with…”
“used to love this game as a kid and I saw it again recently so I downloaded it... lets just say the game has not been doing good... now you have to pay to do most nail art and even freestyle so you only get 4 frees nail art options, but…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2025.3.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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