Picture Builder is a revolutionary addition to the world of puzzles, guarante…
Hitapps GamesSerious warnings 2 confirmed warnings, and users report 1 more thing. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 26 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 2.5.5 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 2.5.5, updated 2026-10-06.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Picture Builder is a revolutionary addition to the world of puzzles, guaranteed to fascinate every player. Waste no time and download our free game now to start building your own cities. Get a free jigsaw puzzle Picture Builder for your android phone and tablet to play puzzle games and get relaxed with a free art puzzle game!
Picture Builder is a delight for enthusiasts of pixel art, color by number, art puzzles, object finding, hidden objects, jigsaw puzzles and other logical games and brain teasers. Within Picture Builder, you'll discover various cityscapes initially devoid of life. It's up to you to assemble all the elements of the art picture puzzle, with each object or character representing a distinct puzzle piece. Since all puzzles are entirely unique, playing Picture Builder is always a joyful and intriguing game experience.…
From the developer’s store description.
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The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 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
sha256:8c9f509aad623443d9dc53de215a4845b333b75941d67e4a88ebcbc842611ddbAggressive ad load: raised by 87 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 5 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Offers a trial ("Get PRO version…") and states no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Package artefact
sha256:8c9f509aad623443d9dc53de215a4845b333b75941d67e4a88ebcbc842611ddbThe app's own text says: "Log out"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Package artefact
sha256:8c9f509aad623443d9dc53de215a4845b333b75941d67e4a88ebcbc842611ddbThe app's own text says: "Please press "Continue" if you choose to start using our app."
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
sha256:8c9f509aad623443d9dc53de215a4845b333b75941d67e4a88ebcbc842611ddbThe app's own text says: "Thanks for your interest. We will share more once you're back online."
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
sha256:8c9f509aad623443d9dc53de215a4845b333b75941d67e4a88ebcbc842611ddbEnergy / timer gating: raised by 18 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 22 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
The app's own text says: "Not available in FREE version"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:8c9f509aad623443d9dc53de215a4845b333b75941d67e4a88ebcbc842611ddbThe listing says "Install the free art puzzle game now and receive countless urban locations with an endless array of pixel puzzles, completely free of charge." with no qualification anywhere in its description, while the app's own text ga…
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.
400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
It's fun, if you enjoy puzzles like I do. The ads are way, way too frequent. It's not fun having an ad after placing each puzzle piece, or every two pieces. I could understand a forced ad after each completed section, and then the option…
this game would be great if it didn't pry your mouth open and shove ads down your throat every 30 seconds. I'd be willing to pay for no ads, but the price is $9.99 and it only lasts for 30 days. that's crazy.
ads ads ads! I went two seconds (not even exaggerating) into my first game and I got hit with an "Ad Break"? then hit a gain barely 3 minutes later. Come on, man...uninstalling... And before you go on about making free by placing ads, I…
placing an object takes stamina and every 25 or so stamina it forces you to take an "ad break" completely interrupting the flow of the game. placing objects is also really picky and I've had to try 3+ times even when i can see exactly…
really love this game wish the energy timer would be more accurate I can wait 12 hours and still have no energy
Having limited energy is so stupid.
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 2.5.5, scanned 26 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 2.5.5 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 2.5.5, updated 2026-10-06.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
picture-builderAssessed 2026-10-26 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
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This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — 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 subscription bills weekly; 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.
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