“one the ads are out of control. if I get one that 30 seconds or more, I close the app and restart the game. this is a deploy to get you to spend money to remove the ads. my other issue is in commisner challenge, you get to the 17th game…”
Independent automated assessment · 4 signal sources · 419 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
PBA® Bowling Challenge
Concrete Software, Inc.Rise through the PBA ranks against 24 of the best bowlers in a thrilling PBA…
4.4 ★302,234 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Rise through the PBA ranks against 24 of the best bowlers in a thrilling PBA bowling experience! As you bowl for a variety of regional and national championship trophies in the best officially licensed PBA 3D bowling game. Starting in a local alley with a scuffed up 12lb bowling ball, you’ll hone your skills against PBA bowling legends on your way to competing in the Tournament of Champions!
Features Include: • Multiplayer, Quickplay, and Career modes! • Dozens of PBA bowling Tournaments! • Best 3D bowling graphics. • Bowl against 24 of the best PBA bowlers! • 100's of different bowling balls available, each with unique stats! • Leaderboards and Achievements • Bonus challenges in every bowling tournament! • Split Balls, Bomb Balls, and more!
Online Multiplayer Action!…
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 3.24.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.24.0, updated 2026-03-13.
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 at least 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
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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 3.24.0, scanned 2026-09-18.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
None requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video to get a different Challenge for today."
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.
In the app's own text: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
In the app's own text: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Progress itself is for sale: "Unable to buy energy upgrade because your game data has not loaded."
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Another edit: LOWER RATING TO 1*. Well, Concrete didn't get the message that WE HATE ADS! There sad one place in the game where we were ad free. That was in the events while playing through the games. That ended recently. Now, there's an…”
“I've been playing this game for years. As of today, I am now subjected to ads after EVERY SINGLE GAME. There are other games out there that don't bombard you with ads. I won't be playing this one anymore. Concrete mentioned that there…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.24.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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