Some warnings 19 users report a free trial turning into a charge; 12 users report a paywall with no way past it and 3 more reports. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 500 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 26 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 2.45 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 2.45, updated 2026-10-01.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Clear your mind and relax with a unique audio-visual meditation experience.
Mesmerize combines engaging visuals with relaxing music and expertly crafted guided meditations to give you an all encompassing meditation experience.
BENEFITS
• Relieve Stress
• Lower Anxiety
• Better Sleep
• Overcome Depression
• Enhance Self-Awareness
• Deeper Relaxation
• Reduce Pain
• Overcome Addiction
• Increase Focus
• In fact, there are many more proven benefits to meditation. The impact of a consistent meditation practice can have a profound impact on the overall quality of your life.
FEATURES
• Engaging Visuals; uniquely hypnotic visuals designed to mesmerize you.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Trial converts to a charge: raised by 19 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 26 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.
Paywall with no way past it: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 42 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.
Misleading advertising: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 42 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 50 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Constant upsell pressure: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 100 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
500 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Free trial scam — Buyer beware: Free trial led to me being secretly billed and before I realized it, $50 bucks later and hooked in for a whole year. I couldn’t dispute it. No emails or anything letting me know to cancel.
Don’t download this app. — The app asks if you want to start a week free trial and then charges you $20 anyways… so scammy and not cool.
Scam — It charged me $50 for the 3 day FREE trial.
Can’t Try Without Subscribing — Any app that forces you to subscribe, before you can even try the app, making the company and app inherently predatory. They know people forget to cancel these things and they’re gonna get money out of them…
Can’t try without subscribing — Can’t try without subscribing. Lame…
Paid app — You cannot do anything in this app before you pay your immediately hit with a paywall 👎
NOT free! — I do not mind spending money on a good app but when an app advertises as free but really isn’t that to me is “bait and switch “. If you will charge me after 5 days say that in your advertising
Did not work without payment — Bait and switch
Misleading and frustrating — I saw the ad on Facebook — the video looked amazing, so I downloaded the app. Nowhere did it mention any cost upfront. It only asks for payment after you’ve entered personal info and started using it, which…
DON’T BOTHER — Can’t do anything without paying
NOT FREE — This app is completely blocked behind a paywall. Why even make it a free app at this point? You can’t even try some features for free or get a tour of the app before it asks you to pay. Not asks, tells you to pay and that’s as…
Why lie to potential customers at the first chance you get — This app literally claims no payment now to start your free trial — but you cannot use the app without making a 13 dollar payment. There’s not even a chance to see the actual…
Be Warned — Downloaded app and paid money for year subscription, when i try to sign in it keeps asking me to subscribe and wont let me use the app, reached out to support and ignored. So i paid for a year for nothing.
You disappoint me — I had this app for a few months or so it worked great the first week or two and after that I get stuck in a constant loop of trying to upsell me to the premium version. I no longer have access to any of the sounds I…
Annoying — This app keeps asking me to pay even tho I keep on clicking the “no payment now” button and it still is making me pay 🥹🥹🥹 please fix this
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.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 2.45 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 2.45, updated 2026-10-01.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
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Appworthy
mesmerizeAssessed 2026-10-26 from 500 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, 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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