Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, 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 3.38.06 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 3.38.06, updated 2026-09-21.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
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The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 10 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager) and 6 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
sha256:84acca6b92c3183efd4630ebf63dbc6b196267a0220fc4fc645c2f9e91865475Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch an ad to continue reading"
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:84acca6b92c3183efd4630ebf63dbc6b196267a0220fc4fc645c2f9e91865475Specific 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 itself is for sale: "Users who are P will get more coins discounts when they unlock paid episodes"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:84acca6b92c3183efd4630ebf63dbc6b196267a0220fc4fc645c2f9e91865475The app's own text says: "Join VIP to access unlimited stories."
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
sha256:84acca6b92c3183efd4630ebf63dbc6b196267a0220fc4fc645c2f9e91865475The app's own text says: "Bahasa Indonesia"
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
sha256:84acca6b92c3183efd4630ebf63dbc6b196267a0220fc4fc645c2f9e91865475The app's own text says: "At the request of the copyright owner, downloading is not allowed currently"
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
sha256:84acca6b92c3183efd4630ebf63dbc6b196267a0220fc4fc645c2f9e91865475400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
very good but too much ads
Excessive ads. U will get ads just for opening the 1st chps and reading it till the end. U'll also get ads if u switch to another app and open this again from background after sometime. The only way u can be free from ads is when u…
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 3.38.06, scanned 26 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 3.38.06 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 3.38.06, updated 2026-09-21.
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.
noveltoonAssessed 2026-10-26 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.
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.
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