Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings, and users report 1 more thing. Checked: 697 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 20 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 12.20.5 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-20 .
The store currently lists version 12.20.5, updated 2026-10-14.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Meitu, the all-in-one AI photo editor and video editing app!
5 must-try edit features:
-AI Flash Effect: Viral vintage camera and retro filters
-Object Remover: Erase photobombers and blur background in 1 tap
-Photo Enhancer: Fix blur and restore HD clarity instantly
-Beauty Retouch & Face Edit: Smooth skin, reshape body & glow naturally
-AI Art: Create trending avatars, collages & stickers
Terms & Privacy: https://pro.meitu.com/xiuxiu/agreements/gdpr.html?lang=en#en-policy
Contact: [email protected]
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 9 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager) and 5 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:b6777f0502120bfbb38cdee970a7eaf67db31faa6ad375bbbe4d58ae351a610fAggressive ad load: raised by 28 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 25 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.
Trial converts to a charge: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 77 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
697 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Raised by 28 distinct reviewers — about 1 in 25 reviews we read on this store leg (Google Play).
went from one of my fave editing apps to unusable due to ads. I can't even get out of the ads to even use the app.
Rubbish app! The ads are absolutely ridiculous and extremely annoying. They keep popping up while I’m editing, and some can’t even be closed or skipped. I have to wait before I can continue, then another ad pops up again! What the hell?…
WORST SO MANY ADDS!!!! verh ANNOYING and DISGUSTING!!!
sign in for 7 days free trial but charge me immediately and can't be refund
absolute scam, charged me immediately even though it said free trial period. And now even though i couldnt get a refund its removed my access to premium?? yeah. avoid.
I subscribed to a free trial but google didn't tell me I would be charged directly and when I realized It did I immediately contacted meitu's customer service and they were super kind even though I was frantic at that point. The money was…
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 12.20.5, scanned 20 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 12.20.5 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-20 .
The store currently lists version 12.20.5, updated 2026-10-14.
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.
No release notes were provided for this version.
No release notes were provided for this version.
meitu-google-com-mt-mtxx-mtxxAssessed 2026-10-20 from 697 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — 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.
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