“Permanent ads — You get random full screen ads that have no way of being closed, forcing you to restart the app if you want to keep using it”
Public review signal · 500 reviews scanned · scope limited to review patterns.
4.5 ★6,663 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
99 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Over 160 million illustrations, manga, and novels to explore right now!
This is the official iOS app of pixiv, Japan's largest creative community with over 119 million registered users. With this app, you can easily discover and enjoy amazing works anytime, anywhere.
pixiv is a platform designed to "accelerate creativity". From anime and manga to fine art, creators from all backgrounds share their work here. Start exploring and find your next favorites today!
■ About pixiv
▶ Illustrations
○ Browse Discover illustrations posted every day, and enjoy them in high quality!
○ Post Share your artwork with the world and collect Likes!
▶ Manga
○ Browse Enjoy original manga you can't read anywhere else! Don’t miss out on trending stories.
○ Post Post your manga and grow your audience!
▶ Novels
○ Browse From romance and fantasy to sci-fi and more, find stories that match your taste!…
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.
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 a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No 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
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.
Aggressive ad load112 reviews · user report
Paywall blocks the basics5 reviews · user report
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Greedy & Unintuitive — Full screen ads blast you out of nowhere and settings are a mess.”
“Pop up Ads — You are testing my patience, and I will not respect that.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.9.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.