Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews and the Android app’s code.
From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 2.7.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 2.7.0, updated 2026-10-23.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
MagicAI Photo Gallery 2025 is an easy and simple photo manager app for viewing & editing all photos, videos, GIFs, and albums. Our MagicAI Photo Gallery App is being used widely across the world to manage and organize photos & Videos.
This MagicAI Photo Album app has an advanced photo viewer for all formats for viewing photos & videos hassle-free. You can easily create custom albums of photos and videos as well.
-> Key Features of MagicAI Photo Gallery App
• Set custom photo albums to easily recognize specific GIFs, photos, albums & Videos
• Simple photo album automatically organizes your photos & videos in an albums
• Recycle Bin to recover deleted GIFs, photos, or albums in the Secure Photo Gallery
• Resize and mirror pictures with a single click in our Secure Photo Gallery
• Automatically duplicate photo finder tool to save space in the device…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 6 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), InMobi, Mintegral and 2 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:a7317abb283c784c79de7b5f761646ce51b4398da11dfe350684172de18bc12fAggressive ad load: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 44 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Facts that add context without being a charge.
Requests 8 sensitive permissions (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, CAMERA, PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_PHONE_STATE, SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW); the median for 521 scanned apps in Photography i…
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
Package artefact
sha256:a7317abb283c784c79de7b5f761646ce51b4398da11dfe350684172de18bc12fSpecific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "Lifetime Access"
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
Package artefact
sha256:a7317abb283c784c79de7b5f761646ce51b4398da11dfe350684172de18bc12fThe 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
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.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app's own text says: "Remove Ads"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:a7317abb283c784c79de7b5f761646ce51b4398da11dfe350684172de18bc12fThe app's own text says: "Enjoy Exclusive Features & Ads-free Experience!"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:a7317abb283c784c79de7b5f761646ce51b4398da11dfe350684172de18bc12fDeadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Offer Ends In:"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:a7317abb283c784c79de7b5f761646ce51b4398da11dfe350684172de18bc12fThe app's own text says: "%1$s folder is not unhide because of his parent folder %2$s is not selected."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:a7317abb283c784c79de7b5f761646ce51b4398da11dfe350684172de18bc12fThe app's own text says: "Download this awesome app"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:a7317abb283c784c79de7b5f761646ce51b4398da11dfe350684172de18bc12f400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
way too many ads just to install the app. not worth it
OK OK TOO MUCH ADS I WILL NETWORK OFF SO WITHOUT ADS I SEE THIS APP
taking too long time to open, secondly lots of ads.
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 2.7.0, scanned 28 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 2.7.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 2.7.0, updated 2026-10-23.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Bug Fixes & Improvements We've fixed bugs, boosted performance, and made overall improvements to keep things running smoothly. Thank you for using MagicAI Gallery!
No release notes were provided for this version.
photos-galleryAssessed 2026-10-30 from 400 user reviews and the app's package.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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