“No Disc No $$$ — This is the absolute last straw. PlayStation 4 had no bluray player, online checks. Then they raised the PS Plus price to $80 just to play online. Now they don’t want physical games and they said we don’t own digital…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 1,449 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
3.5 ★1,194,504 ratings
100M+Downloads
12+Age rating
123 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Connect. Discover. Control.
Stay connected to your gaming friends and the games you love to play, wherever you go with PlayStation App. See who's online, voice chat and send messages, and discover deals on PS Store.
Connect with friends • See who's online and what games they're playing. • Voice chat and send messages to your friends, hang out online, and plan your next multiplayer session. • View other players' profiles and trophy collections.
Discover new games and the latest news • Shop for new releases, pre-order games, and check out the latest deals and discounts on PlayStation Store. • Get your daily fix of gaming news from the world of PlayStation. • Stay up to date with notifications and invitations on your phone lock screen.…
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 26.9.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 26.9.1, updated 2026-09-24.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 26.8.2 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 26.8.2, updated 2026-09-29.
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
1 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
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 26.8.2, scanned 2026-09-29.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 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
None found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None 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.
Positive evidence 2
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
No advertising SDKs
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 3 SDKs detected in the package
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 1
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: Price keeps rising
The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.
What we saw: Price keeps rising: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 617 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Avoid Sony — I have been a playstation fan since the beginning and with the direction sony is going on ending physical media, monopolizing the market, price increases for a basic one year subscription and limiting options for consumers…”
“Ps prices are out of control — This will be my last year with PlayStation. They keep raising their prices for gaming online! Im also not the only one who’s giving up the online play. You guys made it so people can’t even afford to game…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 26.9.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.