“Used to be wonderful until they were acquired by Cafeyn. If you subscribed through their website you don't have any way of cancelling because they took away the ability to cancel and it has been that way for weeks. Instead if 6000+…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 405 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Readly Magazines & Newspapers
Readly InternationalPlease note, this app is deprecated and no longer in use.
3.9 ★25,451 ratings
1M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Please note, this app is deprecated and no longer in use. For the latest version of Readly, please download the new app below: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.cafeyn.readly
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
We cannot tell which version of the app this analysis describes. It was run 2026-10-04 , and the app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version VARY, updated 2026-09-14.
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 at least 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
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.
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 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: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 405 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“My advice is do not subscribe at the moment. They appear to have recently changed hands and updated the app to actually make it worse and not work on any older apple or android devices which worked brilliantly before. the real concern is…”
“An absolute joke of an update! I use the app almost daily and it's unusable now, no way for me to find my favourites and when I find out how to usubscribe I think I might be hitting that button. Shame it's probably the longest…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version VARY.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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