Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings, and users report 1 more thing. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 31 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 12.35.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 12.35.0, updated 2026-10-19.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Moonstories offers a fantastic world of novels, with a vast collection that includes romance, mystery, werewolves, campus life, and more!
Indulge in our best-selling novels, experience the passion of the characters and the excitement of the stories.
[Why Moonstories?]
Massive Collection of Stories
In Moonstories, you can always find your favorite stories: werewolf, badboy romance, kicking revenge…Immerse yourself in our endless stories!
Personalized recommendations
Our app intelligently recommends stories and authors based on your taste. You will never miss your favorite authors' latest releases and any new books.
Immersive Reading
Our app offers customization options that allow you to adjust your reading experience according to your preferences, enabling you to read comfortably at any time and in any place, immersing yourself in your favorite stories.…
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 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 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
sha256:7e3ddd4cc232564c04e0455075e96757d212e7183512a8305c0ff6d8c64b0bacHard to cancel: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 36 reviews we read)
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Facts that add context without being a charge.
Requests 6 sensitive permissions (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, CAMERA, READ_CALENDAR, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_PHONE_STATE); the median for 327 scanned apps in Books & Reference is 2
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
Package artefact
sha256:7e3ddd4cc232564c04e0455075e96757d212e7183512a8305c0ff6d8c64b0bacSpecific 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.
Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch AD to earn rewards"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:7e3ddd4cc232564c04e0455075e96757d212e7183512a8305c0ff6d8c64b0bacSells a randomised reward ("%dCoins") and states no drop rates or odds anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app sells randomised rewards — crates, chests, packs, pulls — and states no drop rates or odds anywhere in its own text, so what the money buys is unknowable before paying.
Package artefact
sha256:7e3ddd4cc232564c04e0455075e96757d212e7183512a8305c0ff6d8c64b0bacMisleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 80 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.
The app's own text says: "Cache parsing failed"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:7e3ddd4cc232564c04e0455075e96757d212e7183512a8305c0ff6d8c64b0bacThe app's own text says: "Only VIP members can gift books for friends to read free."
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.
Package artefact
sha256:7e3ddd4cc232564c04e0455075e96757d212e7183512a8305c0ff6d8c64b0bacDeadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Limited Offer"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:7e3ddd4cc232564c04e0455075e96757d212e7183512a8305c0ff6d8c64b0bacThe app's own text says: "Continue"
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.
Package artefact
sha256:7e3ddd4cc232564c04e0455075e96757d212e7183512a8305c0ff6d8c64b0bacThe app's own text says: "Downloads"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:7e3ddd4cc232564c04e0455075e96757d212e7183512a8305c0ff6d8c64b0bac400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD. Cannot cancel subscrition and the app continues to tell me to do so after a day that has already passed.
can't cancel subscription they keep charging. It doesn't appear in my google play store and they won't respond to my emails.
you cant cancel the payment. the stories are fine- but they will rip you off when you try tk cancel
ad said free, but it lied. subscription is 14.99 per week. False advertising and a scam
advertised as free, false advertising, dont bother with scams
false advertisement, you only get to read a few chapters, then you have ti buy, no link for adds. to watch
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 12.35.0, scanned 31 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 12.35.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 12.35.0, updated 2026-10-19.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Fresh new look, smoother reading Multiple bug fixes for better experience Update now and enjoy improved reading!
No release notes were provided for this version.
moonstories-werewolf-storiesAssessed 2026-10-31 from 400 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.
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.
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
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 recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; 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.
Write to [email protected], or use the form. Name the finding, the app version and the evidence that needs correcting. Factual corrections are free and never depend on buying anything.