“This game is fun and everything but why do you need to pay real money just to continue the progress. This is a kids game and it's not fair. So can you pls don't make this "pay to win", I'll appreciate that alot!”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 464 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★154,479 ratings
50M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Budge Studios™ presents My Little Pony Rainbow Runners! A powerful color-stealing spell has been unleashed on Ponyville and it’s up to your favorite ponies to break it with the power of Friendship! Run, jump, awaken your ponies’ Rainbow Powers and use their epic abilities to bring the colors back to the world!
A COLOR FILLED ADVENTURE • PLAY exciting missions all over Ponyville! • RUN to close the color-stealing portals, one platform at a time! • JUMP, FLY and SLIDE to avoid obstacles, holes and muddy puddles! • TRANSFORM your ponies into their epic Rainbow Power form! • COLLECT Pony Power and upgrade your ponies’ Rainbow Powers • EMBARK on a personal quest with each pony…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2024.2.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2024.2.1, updated 2025-10-06.
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
2 themes 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 2024.2.1, scanned 2026-09-21.
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
None 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.
Positive evidence 2
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
No advertising SDKs
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 2 SDKs detected in the package
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
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: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 464 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
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 (1.3% of 464 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“The game itself it's fun but the fact you have to pay to finish is not working great many people are saying it's pay to win and I definitely agree I think to make it fair we should keep different levels at which we can unlock different…”
“you need to pay to continue playing”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2024.2.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.