Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews and the Android app’s code.
From our automated analysis, 25 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 2.1.08 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .
The store currently lists version 2.1.08, updated 2026-08-24.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Welcome to the Aloha State! Play Home Design: Waikiki Life and live the life of an interior designer and a real estate mogul. Help an endless stream of clients who rely on you to make their island living dreams come true. Solve fun match 3 puzzles to help design, customize, remodel, and decorate the perfect dream home with beautiful decor. Perform amazing home makeovers throughout the major Hawaiian islands for the families who took a leap to the island life. Transform their dreams into reality, your clients are waiting for you!
Meet your assistants, Luana and Mark, who will help throughout your interior designer career.
Reason to play Home Design: Waikiki Life…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:5617387ef015c2e9739804b02dff7c73856f080bc5cec36efbf43a91dc97ba47Aggressive ad load: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 31 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
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
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.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Use is rationed by a refillable meter: "9999. No More Lives"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
Package artefact
sha256:5617387ef015c2e9739804b02dff7c73856f080bc5cec36efbf43a91dc97ba47400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
This game sucks you can't earn anything way to many ads there should be other ways to earn points and there are never enough moves to finish the game in a couple tries I have spent weeks trying to pass levels. Very dissappointed
Enjoyable game but when I reached level 200 up, i noticed the challenges are almost the same. And it has many ads too. TOO MANY ADS
Too many ads
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 2.1.08, scanned 25 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 2.1.08 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .
The store currently lists version 2.1.08, updated 2026-08-24.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
home-design-google-com-cookapps-hawaiilifeAssessed 2026-10-25 from 400 user reviews and the app's package.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — 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.
Write to [email protected], or use the form. Name the finding, the app version and the evidence that needs correcting. Factual corrections are free and never depend on buying anything.