“can’t even use the app — I literally could not use the app because the ads. There is virtually no way to exit out, even closing and reopening. I spent more time watching the fruit puzzle ads than building characters. The picrew ap is…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 520 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★15,553 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
175 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Picrew is a platform where you can create characters, portraits, and icons for free! With 10,000+ Image Makers, you can customize avatars that look like you or dress them up in various outfits. The images you create can be downloaded for free or shared on social media.
Picrew features Image Makers from creators worldwide, offering styles ranging from cute and cool to stylish and even spooky. With so many options, you're sure to find your favorite!
Picrew allows you to "create Image Makers" and "play with Image Makers." However, the app currently supports only the "play" function. If you want to create Image Makers, please visit the web version of Picrew at picrew.me. https://picrew.me/…
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 2.0.6 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.0.6, updated 2026-09-16.
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
Says 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
80–89% 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.
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.
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: Raised by 138 distinct reviewers — 26.5% of the 520 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 1.99 to USD 39.99 — a 20x spread across 3 items
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.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
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.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (10 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Boring! — These drawings are nice, but the ads are too much for me. Ads are so boring! Shame on you creator”
“it’s good but.. — This app has way too many ads. I can’t even make anything without getting interrupted. I always get ads every few minutes and it removes my progress I don’t like it😡”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.0.6.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown3
Lowest$1.99
Highest$39.99
Picrew Premium (1 month)$3.99
Picrew Ad-Free Plan$1.99
PicrewPremium Plan$39.99