“HOW CAN THIS APP BECAME VERY UNUSABLE BECAUSE THE ADS KEEP DISTURBING EVERY ONE SECOND AND BROUGHT ME TO ANOTHER APP”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 1,028 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.4 ★122,412 ratings
10M+Downloads
17+Age rating
141 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Letterboxd for iOS puts the popular social network for film lovers on your iPhone or iPad, so you can log films and catch up on your friends’ activity with ease.
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 4.12.6 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.12.6, updated 2026-09-16.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 3.5.8 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.5.8, updated 2026-09-23.
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 3.5.8, scanned 2026-10-02.
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
10 or more 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.
The catch list 2
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.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 13 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Chartboost, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange and 9 more
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 48 distinct reviewers — 9.2% of the 521 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
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.
In the app's own text: A plan is pre-picked as 'recommended'
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
What we saw: Purchase screen steers the choice: "Most popular"
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Literally acting like those pirate websites, redirecting you to another app and the ads are relentless. Every scroll would have an ad. Didn't even tapped on the ads and it would riderect you somewhere, even scrolling or being in the app…”
“the redirecting ads are getting too ridiculous. I can't write my reviews peacefully without the ads leading me to another app”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.12.6.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$3.99
Highest$48.99
Letterboxd Pro (1 Year)$18.99
Letterboxd Patron (1 Year)$48.99
Video Store Rental$5.99
Video Store Rental$4.99
Video Store Rental$19.99
Show 4 more purchases
Video Store Rental$9.99
Video Store Rental$14.99
Video Store Rental$6.99
Video Store Rental$3.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.