“Paywall — Shouldn’t have to pay for an app like this cannot do anything rleated to the main purpose of this app without paying”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 501 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
3.5 ★50,356 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
250 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Match. Chat. Play.
Plink – the revolutionary app for gamers. Forget about playing alone - find your perfect teammate, influence game history and plunge into a global game community. Want to improve your gamerscore? Play with supreme teammates that match you through age, country and language. Get results you couldn’t even imagine before! Learn how the leaders play, chat with them, discover a thrilling game stats, share it with friends. Be the first to play new trending games. All of these make Plink a unique solution for gamers.
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Use Swipes to like or pass on players. If someone likes you back, it’s a Match! No stress. No rejection. No playing alone.…
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.
This analysis describes version 1.48.8 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.48.8, updated 2026-05-07.
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
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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 5
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.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (6 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
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 16 distinct reviewers (3.2% of 501 reviews scanned)
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 12 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 501 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall with no way past it
A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.
What we saw: Paywall with no way past it: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 501 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 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 501 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Slop — just OF promotions, and you have to pay to do like anything on it”
“BASSICALY A DATING APP — You have to pay for everything and the free trial is only 3 days. People use this as a Dating app I’m talking like they should go onto OF bcuz they CLEARLY want too.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.48.8.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$2.99
Highest$19.99
PLINK PRO weekly (id20102717)$4.99
PLINK Pro subs 1 week$4.99
PLINK PRO monthly (id20031017)$16.99
PLINK Pro month subscription$19.99
Plink Pro Monthly (id20071003)$2.99
Show 5 more purchases
BATTLE PASS$9.99
BATTLE PASS$11.99
BATTLE PASS$6.99
PLINK Pro subs$4.99
PLINK Pro$19.99