Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 121 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 24 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.10.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 1.10.0, updated 2026-08-27.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Touch-first steering that finally gets mobile racing right!
Take the wheel of classic retro cars and race through beautifully crafted tracks with controls built from the ground up to be easily played one handed. Smooth, precise, and satisfying from the very first turn.
Focused on the joy of driving.
Features:
• One-Handed Play. Designed for portrait mode so you can race with one hand — on the bus, in bed, wherever. No need to flip your phone sideways.
• Built for Touch. Steering designed specifically for mobile, delivering precise, intuitive control that makes every corner feel right.
• Classic Cars with Character. Charming, old-school cars inspired by real classics — each with its own weight, handling, and personality.
• A Driving Feel You'll Love. Carefully tuned physics make every drift smooth, every race immersive, and every lap worth one more try.
• Pick Up & Play.…
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 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 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
sha256:1541576e4b92f456f493bc857ea7e70a76fa2c468c6f9e48f0e25d77e5502f56Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Button label to watch an ad for one more free try at the event level"
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Package artefact
sha256:1541576e4b92f456f493bc857ea7e70a76fa2c468c6f9e48f0e25d77e5502f56Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Use is rationed by a refillable meter: "OUT OF LIVES!"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
Package artefact
sha256:1541576e4b92f456f493bc857ea7e70a76fa2c468c6f9e48f0e25d77e5502f56Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:1541576e4b92f456f493bc857ea7e70a76fa2c468c6f9e48f0e25d77e5502f56Progress itself is for sale: "Need more coins"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:1541576e4b92f456f493bc857ea7e70a76fa2c468c6f9e48f0e25d77e5502f56The app's own text says: "Delete All"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Package artefact
sha256:1541576e4b92f456f493bc857ea7e70a76fa2c468c6f9e48f0e25d77e5502f56The app's own text says: "Please press "Continue" if you choose to start using our app."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Package artefact
sha256:1541576e4b92f456f493bc857ea7e70a76fa2c468c6f9e48f0e25d77e5502f56The app's own text says: "Thanks for your interest. We will share more once you're back online."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:1541576e4b92f456f493bc857ea7e70a76fa2c468c6f9e48f0e25d77e5502f56121 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
I've deleted way to many games I like because there's way to many ads
too many ads
fun little game. simplistic but rewarding drift racing on short tracks. But lots and lots of ads. can pay to remove ads.. but I stubbornly refused. 😁
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.10.0, scanned 24 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 1.10.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 1.10.0, updated 2026-08-27.
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.
retro-racing-google-se-raketspel-retroracingAssessed 2026-10-24 from 121 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.
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