“It says there's a free trial but you have to input a payment method that ticks over automatically after 7 days. It's more trap than trial. I didn't even get to try the app out unfortunately. Uninstalled.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 500 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.5 ★84,501 ratings
5M+Downloads
4+Age rating
166 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Picture insect is an easy-to-use insect identifier tool that utilizes AI technology. Simply take a photo of an insect or upload one from your phone gallery, and the app will tell you all about it in a second.
Got bitten by an unknown insect but not sure about its toxicity? Wonder the name of the moth you got in your mothing activity? Found pests in your home garden and want to find solutions to get rid of them?
Open the Picture Insect app and point your phone camera toward the insect/pest, and you will have your puzzles solved.
Get the Picture Insect app today and join a community of over 3 million insect enthusiasts worldwide.
Key Features:
Fast and accurate insect ID - Instantly identify butterflies, moths, and spiders with AI photo recognition technology.…
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.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2.21.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.21.1, updated 2026-01-15.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2.9.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.9.1, updated 2026-04-20.
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
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
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 2
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: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (3.1% of 422 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 422 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“My card got charged as soon as the free trial started.”
“The free trial is a scam. They claim a 7 day free trial, but charge your card immediately rather than at the end of the 7 days”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.21.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.