“this is the worst app I literally couldn't even get into the app without adds popping up every second waste of time”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 279 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
Phone Tracker – Location Share
MARO APPSA simple, secure app for sharing your location with the circle you choose.
4.5 ★6,352 ratings
1M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
A simple, secure app for sharing your location with the circle you choose. • Share location with a secure connection code and toggle sharing on/off. 🔒 • Explore popular nearby places to eat, shop, or hang out. 🍽️ • Set custom alert zones to get notified when someone arrives or leaves a designated area. 🚨 • Get around easily with a built-in metro line map. 🚇 Disclaimer This app is designed exclusively for consensual, mutual location sharing. ‣ Location sharing is only active when all parties have given their consent. ‣ A persistent notification is displayed on your device at all times when location sharing runs in the background. ‣ You can pause or stop sharing with any contact at any 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.
This analysis describes version 1.0.40 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.0.40, updated 2026-08-25.
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 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
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 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: 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 6 distinct reviewers (2.2% of 279 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“unusable far to many ads”
“too much ads. can't come to the topics”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.0.40.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.