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Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 802 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-07.

Medium: Read & Write Stories

A Medium Corporation

News, Tech, Business, Design

4.7 ★672,126 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
252 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases

About this app

Welcome to Medium, your home for human stories, useful advice, and inspiring insights. Immerse yourself in a world of wisdom with writing from renowned figures, passionate experts, and fresh voices. Make reading and writing a daily ritual by following your fascinations, discovering new rabbit holes, and reaching readers of your own. Medium is simple social publishing for everyone.

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Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

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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.

Automated analysis in progress

Which version this describes

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

App Store

This analysis describes version 4.327 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-07 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 4.327, updated 2026-09-21.

Google Play

This analysis describes version 4.5.1784910743 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 4.5.1784910743, updated 2026-09-25.

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 a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says 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
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

Context 1

Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.

Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
MeasuredPublished as context — deliberately not a charge · from the store listingview evidence
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 4.99 to USD 149.99 — a 30x spread across 6 items

Positive evidence 1

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
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.

Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 543 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

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

Paywall blocks the basics
“I'am disgusted that i have to pay to read other people's helpful information with various dark energy gang force problems in my life to get help from them. Which quora is free & i have a lot of information to give to help others too which…”
1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-20
Paywall blocks the basics
“initially used to vet some free blogs. now everything is paid. deleted this app”
1★ · Google Play · 2026-07-27
Paywall blocks the basics
“almost every article I have to pay to read it. no you have to make money it's alright”
3★ · Google Play · 2026-09-09

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 4.327.

What this app sells

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

Items shown4
Lowest$4.99
Highest$149.99
Medium Membership$4.99
Medium Membership$49.99
Friend Membership$14.99
Friend Membership$149.99

Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.