“This app is being consistently made worse, despite frequent price hikes. I pay for access, yet still have to scroll through constant ads. I click the comment section of an article, and a scrolling/animated ad immediately appears urging me…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 1,183 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.8 ★998,520 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
158 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
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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.
App Store
This analysis describes version 11.94.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 11.94.0, updated 2026-10-05.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 11.94.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 11.94.0, updated 2026-09-28.
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
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.
Positive evidence 1
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
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (1.8% of 655 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.8% of 655 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“*I found the solution: Opt out of targeted ads and then go to the app in settings and stop it and clear the cache.* This is regarding a very intrusive pop up ad on both the website and app. It happened at least once a minute. If I didn't…”
“Great, and a practical design for the app - but way too many ads inside each article that hinders the reading experience. And I'm a subscriber.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 11.94.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown0
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.