“Don't make me watch ads when I upgraded to no ads years ago. the fact that they will do nothing about it shows how little they care once they have your money. dont do them a favor by watching ads. they want to take from you, and wont help”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 1,766 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
3.9 ★6,654,922 ratings
500M+Downloads
9+Age rating
181 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
This game includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items.
Get ready to soil your plants as a mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home. Use your arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants — Peashooters, Wall-nuts, Cherry bombs and more — to mulchify 26 types of zombies before they break down your door.
This app offers in-app purchases. You may disable in-app purchasing using your device settings
WINNER OF OVER 30 GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDS*
50 FUN-DEAD LEVELS Conquer all 50 levels of Adventure mode — through day, night, fog, in a swimming pool, on the rooftop and more. Plus fend off a continual wave of zombies as long as you can with Survival mode!
NOT GARDEN-VARIETY GHOULS Battle zombie pole-vaulters, snorkelers, bucketheads and 26 more fun-dead zombies.…
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.
App Store
This analysis describes version 3.18.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.18.0, updated 2026-08-25.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 3.18.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.18.0, updated 2026-08-13.
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
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more 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
Under 65% 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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 3.18.0, scanned 2026-09-30.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
None requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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 2
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.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
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 148 distinct reviewers — 19.0% of the 780 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
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 4
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.
In the app's own text: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
From the store listing: Loot boxes with no stated odds
The app sells randomised rewards — crates, chests, packs, pulls — and states no drop rates or odds anywhere in its own text, so what the money buys is unknowable before paying.
What we saw: The store lists 1 randomised-reward purchase ("Sunflower's Golden Chest") and the app's own text states no drop rates or odds
Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.6% of 986 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 5 distinct reviewers (0.5% of 986 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“ever since they shoved and pumped all these ads into this game, I'd rather play replanted! The game shoves so many ads into your face, to the point where you can only play five levels without internet (yes, that is a real update), and…”
“I bought this game years ago. Why tf am I getting ads?! I paid to not have ads on this game, but there is an ad after EVERY SINGLE ROUND, ads that require me to open the play store app before I can return to the game! Why tf is this the…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.18.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$0.99
Highest$5.99
Dr. Zomboss’ Piggy Bank$1.99
Sunflower's Golden Chest$0.99
Whirly-Blurry Speed Up Bundle$4.99
Ads Free$2.99
Stinky's Secret Stash$0.99
Show 5 more purchases
Digger's Diamond Mine$3.99
Marigold's Coin Pot$0.99
Crazy Dave's Lost Wallet$0.99
Whirly-Blurry Speed Up Stash$3.99
Craaazy Speed Up Stash$5.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.