“Love the game, BUT the ads are getting ridiculous! It started tolerable, but now I have to watch 3 ads to be able select the level and then 3 more ads to play. I spend more time with ads than I do actually playing the game. I'm ok with an…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 710 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★52,210 ratings
1M+Downloads
4+Age rating
252 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Dive into the world of cryptography with Cryptogram by PlaySimple, the ultimate puzzle game that challenges your wits and sharpens your mind!
Whether you're a seasoned puzzle enthusiast or a curious newcomer, Cryptogram offers an engaging and satisfying experience that will keep you hooked.
In this thrilling game, you’ll decode a series of encrypted messages by substituting letters to reveal hidden phrases and quotes. With a variety of difficulty levels, Cryptogram caters to all skill levels, ensuring a fun and stimulating challenge for everyone.…
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 90.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 90.0, updated 2026-09-29.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 1.198.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.198.0, updated 2026-09-28.
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
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
90% or more 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.
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 0.99 to USD 24.99 — a 25x spread across 10 items
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 66 distinct reviewers (23.7% of 279 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 431 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“They draw you in with an interesting idea and you start to enjoy yourself and then they hit you with so many ads. They only start with the ads after lvl 10 and the game goes from a 5star to a 1star for me. Developers are pathetic for how…”
“Decent puzzles, but I'm about to uninstall this because I've paid for the zero app version and I can confirm that the game is deliberately forcing me to watch ads to "revive" a puzzle in which the game is misidentifying letter choices as…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 90.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$0.99
Highest$24.99
Basic Pack$3.99
300 Coins$0.99
Value Pack$9.99
Ultimate Pack$24.99
1000 Coins$2.99
Show 5 more purchases
Fail Offer$3.99
Remove Forced Ads$9.99
Puzzle Screen Burst Hint 2$4.99
Timed Deal 3$9.99
Ladder Deal 1$0.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.