“Misleading Ads — The animations and voice in the ads were GREAT and got my attention, but the lesson animations and voice in the app were very different, and not engaging for me at all. My brain tuned out almost immediately and got bored…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 542 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★22,592 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
177 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Explore History in a Whole New Way!
Do you want to understand history but don’t have the time for lengthy books or documentaries? With Paladin: Learn History, you can uncover the stories of history’s greatest personalities in just 5 minutes! Our app combines the power of interactive learning with the excitement of game elements to make history fun, engaging, and easy to remember.
Key Features:
• Short, Curated Lessons: Discover captivating stories from history, centered around key figures like Cleopatra, Abraham Lincoln, and more.…
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 6.9.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.9.0, updated 2026-10-02.
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
3 or more 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.
The catch list 2
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: 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: Raised by 58 distinct reviewers — 10.7% of the 542 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Raised by 35 distinct reviewers — 6.5% of the 542 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
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: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 19 distinct reviewers (3.5% of 542 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 20 distinct reviewers (3.7% of 542 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Bait and Switch — The ads are cool short animated stories about history. Things I can watch, learn, and have fun with when I have 2-3 minutes. The app is NOT this at all. It is pictures and listening to an AI voice dump a bunch of text…”
“Format is completely different than advertised on Instagram — I finally downloaded the app after seeing many Instagram ads. I always stopped to watch the videos because I loved the format. I downloaded the app hoping to find more videos…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.9.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.