From our automated analysis, 18 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 3.40.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-18 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.41, updated 2025-10-28.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
🎸 Ever wanted to play guitar simply? Got no time to hire a backing band? But still, want to be an electric guitar-playing hero? This is the perfect music game to get started. Real Guitar is the ultimate guitar skills simulator. And it’s packed with features including electric and acoustic sounds – recorded with live instruments – to deliver realistic experience!
Dive in and learn how to play simply with the guitar chords and tabs. The app has dozens of options and playing modes to try out – a perfect fit for both beginners and guitar games masters! Never get bored!
As a temporary musical instrument substitute or a great way to revise chords – there is no better guitar app out there! Want to jam to the latest hits? Need the tabs for the most popular songs? Or just spending some free time relaxing with a few bars of a rock hit? All you need is right here.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 10 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager) and 6 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:a503cc267a9107c603df6e981797caaadc031a92fbe94a34e3d0793581130fc5Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video to earn a reward!"
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:a503cc267a9107c603df6e981797caaadc031a92fbe94a34e3d0793581130fc5Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
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
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.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Offers a free trial ("Free Trial Enabled") with no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:a503cc267a9107c603df6e981797caaadc031a92fbe94a34e3d0793581130fc5514 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
NYC but too many ads
can't even play 1 second without getting a ad or premium suggestion
I can't even play I'm Stuck with the premium ad
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
Android package 3.40.4, scanned 1 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 3.40.4 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-18 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.41, updated 2025-10-28.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
real-guitar-google-com-gismart-guitarAssessed 2026-10-18 from 514 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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