“This app WAS perfect. But it's getting uninstalled in April '25. They're now using the app to collect the constant geolocation of your device (and therefore, of *you*), and selling this information—This app literally is selling a…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 410 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.0 ★100,459 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Love the Moon? If so, Phases of the Moon is the moon app for you. Explore each Moon Phase and Get this 3-D Moon simulation, with Atlas, Monthly Lunar Calendar, Live Moon Wallpaper, Check Moon Phases for Hunting/Fishing forecast and Farmer's Almanac, Widget, Astrology Zodiac Signs, moon alerts and more to track the upcoming Full Moon, New Moon, and Eclipse.
Hold the Moon in your hand with this 3-D simulation of Moon phases with data updated in real time. Swipe back and forth to move through the phases of the Moon. This app has all the data you need including moon rise and set times, moon illumination, phase name, astrology zodiac sign and the distance to the Moon, all in a beautiful, elegant Moon app that's fun to use. It even has a monthly moon calendar so you can see what the Moon will look like over time.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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.
We cannot tell which version of the app this analysis describes. It was run 2026-10-04 , and the app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 7.13.0, updated 2026-09-25.
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
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
Under 65% 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 7.13.0, scanned 2026-10-07.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 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
3–9 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 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.
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 5 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: AppLovin MAX, Chartboost, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), ironSource / Unity LevelPlay and 1 more
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 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: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 410 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Used to be a great app, I've had it for years. Now widget doesn't work and app requires too many unnecessary permissions. Please fix!”
“I thought this app would be fun, but they are trying to harvest and sell my location data, precise location, my phone state, and probably more. I have decided to uninstall the app and just go outside. it's free and no one can steal your…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 7.13.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.