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Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 522 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.

Instories: AI Photo & Video

Ylee Studio LTD

Reels Editor & Stories Maker

4.7 ★45,991 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
524 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

Create professional-looking designs with Instories within just a few taps. This all-in-one application covers most content needs from providing inspiration and source materials to video editing. The best part - anyone can use it because it requires no designer skills. Join our community of creators: bloggers, influencers, small businesses, SMM professionals. Design content that fits all major social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat & others. Instories offers hundreds of pre-made templates that are fully customizable. Instories has an excellent suite of features and is genuinely multifunctional application with the intuitive interface: PRE-MADE TEMPLATES: Use over 2500 ready-made designer templates for every occasion: holiday, business, online education, lifestyle, tiktok&reels editing, and more.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

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Independent evidence report

The evidence behind this assessment

This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.

Automated assessment complete

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

This analysis describes version 5.126.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 5.126.0, updated 2026-10-01.

What we measured

Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.

How these are measured

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
3 or more themes 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 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.

Methodology

The catch list 1

Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.

Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
Reported by 35 usersReported by users, not measured — nothing we can inspect could show this either wayview evidence
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Raised by 35 distinct reviewers — 6.7% of the 522 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).

One source only — shown, not confirmed 3

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: Trial converts to a charge
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 26 distinct reviewers (5.0% of 522 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 522 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 17 distinct reviewers (3.3% of 522 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.

Reports of unexpected charges
“There is no free trial — I was charged for full year immediately though I was on free 3 day trial, they don’t give a refund.”
1★ · App Store · 2026-09-21
Reports of unexpected charges
“Scam — I cancel my subscription and still charging me $119 thanks to chase flagging as a fraud.”
1★ · App Store · 2026-08-25
Reports of unexpected charges
“You keep charging me even though I canceled the subscription — You charged me and will not refund my money!”
1★ · App Store · 2026-08-20

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 5.126.0.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Business modelFree

Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.