“I like this game because it is so cool to win easily.and I use pay to win to wins and not to be toxi — lol”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 604 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★1,680,410 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
3153 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
NBA 2K Mobile is a free NBA basketball card game that delivers authentic basketball simulation on your iPhone or iPad. Build your NBA team, collect real player cards, and compete in daily challenges, live events, and multiplayer matchups. Designed for fans who want more than arcade basketball, NBA 2K Mobile brings the strategy, depth, and excitement of the NBA to mobile. NBA 2K Mobile is a card collector and basketball simulator combined — every day offers new ways to play, earn rewards, and upgrade your roster as the league evolves. BUILD YOUR NBA CARD COLLECTION Collect hundreds of NBA player cards featuring today's stars and legendary greats like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Wilt Chamberlain. Pull packs, chase rare Foil Cards, and build your NBA lineup as a true card collector.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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 10.20.12479169 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 10.20.12479169, updated 2026-08-24.
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
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.
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
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 0.99 to USD 24.99 — a 25x spread across 10 items
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.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
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.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (8 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.
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 12 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 604 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“This game ain’t even live close up to the hype — You can’t do anything in this game you click a button it passes it to the opposite court the ai is dumb no peasure during a close game shooting meter sucks like it’s 2026 not 2018 ai on the…”
“Decent Gameplay Options — This game is so slow function,the best thing about this game is the card and how they look after making a team u might play for 20 mins than you’ll play it the next day it not fun and it’s seems to be a other pay…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 10.20.12479169.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.