“Great Game, Too Many Ads — I love the gameplay, I love that it's very simple with no power-ups and such. I DO wish we had a dark mode! I had previously left a review ranting about the amount of ads, and I do still think it's too many. I…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 567 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.6 ★247,679 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
255 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Number Match is an addictive puzzle game with simple rules: match pairs and clear the board to succeed. Playing Number Match is a useful pastime for your brain. Train your logic and concentration skills, and try to beat your high score!
Try a mobile version of the pen and paper game from your childhood. Now you can take your number game with you wherever you go. Solving free Number Match puzzles on mobile is much easier than using a pencil and paper.
How to play:…
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 1.32.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.32.1, updated 2026-09-15.
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
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.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 160 distinct reviewers — 28.2% of the 567 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
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.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 567 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Ads — I like the game there's just too many ads and sometimes double ads”
“Too many ads — Really have been loving this game but unfortunately the number of ads really has made it difficult to continue to play”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.32.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown3
Lowest$3.99
Highest$14.99
VIP Access for a Single Event$4.99
Number Match No Ads$14.99
Number Match Premium Access$3.99