“Very good app, but only to many advertising”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 465 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
PhotoApp - AI Photo Enhancer
ScaleUpTurn your old, blurry photos into high resolution using the most advanced AI…
4.2 ★482,060 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Turn your old, blurry photos into high resolution using the most advanced AI photo enhancer with just one tap!
PhotoApp uses state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence to unblur, restore, and enhance any photo you want.
More than 200 million photos have been enhanced using PhotoApp’s photo enhancer. Recognized as one of the most popular and beloved image enhancer apps worldwide, it can instantly transform photos that are 10 or even 20 years old into HD-quality images, as if they were captured with the latest phone, with incredible eye detail and flawless skin texture.
With this advanced photo enhancer, you can easily enhance photo quality, unblur & sharpen images, restore old photos to crystal-clear HD, and explore stylish polaroid filters.
✨Key Features ► Enhance Photo Quality Many people ask, 'How can I enhance photo quality?' With PhotoApp's AI Photo Enhancer feature it’s easy.…
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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 2.9.8 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 2.9.8, updated 2026-08-19.
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
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 2.9.8, scanned 2026-09-20.
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
3 or more found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 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.
Price may differ from what you see here
The app ships a remote paywall-experimentation SDK, so the offer shown is configured server-side and may differ per user — including from anything we or a reviewer saw.
What we saw: Paywall is server-configured and A/B tested via Adapty — the offer shown can differ per user
Positive evidence 2
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
States a price, or offers a one-time purchase
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
What we saw: Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "One time payment for unlimited access, cancel any time"
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 3
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: Trial terms not stated in the app's own text
The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
What we saw: Offers a free trial ("Start Free Trial") with no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text
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 8 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 465 reviews scanned)
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 8 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 465 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“You load a photo and then watch endless adds ,only to get a message that the add is loading and that you have to watch the adds before you can use the app, or buy an upgrade. No matter how many times you repeat this, you never get to the…”
“too many ads as looks like very desperate to make money.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.9.8.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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